Quality management practices in Indian ISO 9000 certified companies: An empirical evaluation

Mahadevappa, B. and Kotreshwar, G. (2004) Quality management practices in Indian ISO 9000 certified companies: An empirical evaluation. Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, 15 (3). pp. 295-305. ISSN 1478-3363

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Abstract

`Quality' is one of the challenges Indian companies have encountered during the post-liberalization. ISO 9000 certification by companies represents a strategy to meet this challenge. This study concerns the quality management practices in sixteen ISO 9000 certified companies in India. It aims at evaluating the degree of implementation of eight critical factors of quality management, and their impact on quality performance. It is found that ISO 9000 certification has helped the companies in improving their product quality only marginally. Quality management practices of ISO 9000 companies need further improvement and ISO 9000 quality management systems are to be integrated with TQM for continuous improvement of quality.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ISO 9000; quality management; cost of quality; quality data; scrap/defect levels; customer complaints
Subjects:	G Commerce > Commerce
Divisions:	Department of > Chemistry
Depositing User:	Users 23 not found.
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2019 12:32
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2019 12:32
URI:	http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/6593

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