Quality Management Integration Method - (2nd Edition)

Author: S. Thomas Foster
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Dr. S. Thomas Foster's Quality Management: An Integrated Approach (2nd Edition) is a best-selling textbook on quality management in North America, featuring the following outstanding characteristics: First, integration and systematicity, emphasizing a comprehensive perspective on quality and quality management issues; Second, a contingency perspective from the standpoint of continuous quality improvement, establishing mechanisms and methods for continuous improvement based on different actual conditions of enterprises; Third, providing systematic frameworks for quality concepts, quality management systems, and quality management methods, with theoretical elaborations complemented by case studies; Fourth, strong novelty, including topics such as supply chain quality control and Six Sigma management, which are currently hot topics of research and attention in both academia and the business community. This book is the crystallization of Professor Foster's long-term research on quality management theory and methods. The numerous case studies in the book are derived from actual enterprise practices, making it highly practical while maintaining the systematic nature of quality management. It is highly suitable for MBA teaching, as well as for undergraduate management majors as a teaching or reference book, and for professionals in enterprises and institutions engaged in quality management as a self-study textbook for systematic learning of quality management.