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Quality circle

A quality circle or quality control circle is a group of workers who do the same or similar work, who meet regularly to identify, analyze and solve work-related problems. It consists of minimum three and maximum twelve members in number. Normally small in size, the group is usually led by a supervisor or manager and presents its solutions to management…

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Quality circle

Nodes39
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Triples100
Avg. degree1.95
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related to Student quality circles · 41
Quality circle → After, Bangladesh, Bihari, City Montessori School, CMS, CMS Lucknow India, Corporate Office, Education, Excellence, Hong Kong, India, Indian Railways PC, Iran, It, Jagdish Gandhi, Japan, Kaizen, Kamran, Kingston University, Leicester
related to history · 36
Quality circle → As, August, Beijing, By, California, China, Chinese Quality Circles Society, Deming, Don Dewar, East Asian, Edwards Deming, Engineers, Gemba, However, ICSQCC Conference, India, Japan, Japanese, Jeff Beardsley, JUSE
related to Empirical studies · 14
Quality circle → Active QCs, Attributions, Based, However, In, Larger QCs, Management, QC, QC's, QCs, QCS QCs, The, There, US
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Quality circle → people-development concept based on the premise that an employee doing a certain task is the most informed person in that topic and, small group of workers that work in the same area or do similar sorts of work and meet once a week for an hour to identify

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quality circles circle work qc workers japan management implementation work-related company student qcs established performance japanese group similar meet identify

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Quality circleis apeople-development concept based on the premise that an employee doing a certain task is the most informed person in that topic and0.90text
Quality circleis asmall group of workers that work in the same area or do similar sorts of work and meet once a week for an hour to identify0.90text
Kaoru Ishikawainstance ofThe idea was later formalized across Japan in 1962 and expanded by others0.80text
histogramsinstance ofdata gathering tools such as check sheetsGraphical tools0.80text
frequency diagramsinstance ofdata gathering tools such as check sheetsGraphical tools0.80text
spot chartsinstance ofdata gathering tools such as check sheetsGraphical tools0.80text
pie chartsRun chartsinstance ofdata gathering tools such as check sheetsGraphical tools0.80text
control chartsScatter plotsinstance ofdata gathering tools such as check sheetsGraphical tools0.80text
correlation analysisFlowcharts Student quality circlesStudent quality circles work on the original philosophy of total quality managementinstance ofdata gathering tools such as check sheetsGraphical tools0.80text
Quality circlerelated to Empirical studiesIn0.60section
Quality circlerelated to Empirical studiesUS0.60section
Quality circlerelated to Empirical studiesQCs0.60section

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