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Internalizing a Culture of Business Excellence: Perspectives from Quality Professionals

Autor Flevy Lasrado, Norhayati Zakaria
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2021
Underline by the importance of sustainable quality management practices to contemporary organizations, this edited book complies best practice cases of leaders who have initiated and facilitated quality practices in their organizations. The cases highlight how these best practices manifested in their work cultures, values, and beliefs. Not only do they address organizational efforts towards implementation of quality practices, but they also discuss the challenges the leaders faced to instill a sense of quality in practices across the hierarchical structures of their organizations.




The book highlights the profiles of quality leaders, their journey and their successes in leading quality in their organizations. A book would be an interesting read for those who are eager to integrate quality in their work culture.




A key message emerging from these expertise is that ‘passion’ is truly behind the quality success!
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032178462
ISBN-10: 1032178469
Pagini: 140
Ilustrații: 10 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Productivity Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction: Internalizing Organizational Excellence: Why and How


Chapter 2: Quality Culture at the Top: Insights from Leaders


Chapter 3: New CRM Acronym – "Customer Really Matters"?


Chapter 4: High Performance through People


Chapter 5: What is a Process Champion? Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement


Chapter 6: Tools for Six Sigma


Chapter 7: Managing the Change: Embracing Quality Skills


Chapter 8: What and Why of Benchmarking


Chapter 9: Quality Awards and Certification: An Exceptional Journey


Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards Building a Culture of Business Excellence

Notă biografică

Dr Flevy Lasrado is assistant professor of quality management at University of Wollongong in Dubai UAE. She carries 15+ years of work experience in academia. During her academic years, she has been recognized for outstanding contribution for research and for outstanding performance at her work. She has won several internal and external research and travel grants. Specifically, the grants are from UOWD, British council UK and UK innovation and science group. With a plethora of experience in both academia and industry, Dr Flevy Lasrado has extensive knowledge of quality assurance and institutional effectiveness. Her research interests revolve around Quality Management in a range of organisational settings. In additional to this, Dr Lasrado carriers extensive experience in implementing quality management system and is a qualified EFQM assessor and lead auditor for ISO 9008:2014. She also serves an assessor for national quality award namely Dubai Quality award. She teaches Quality Management, Business Excellence and Business process improvement courses to graduate students at UOWD. Dr Lasrado is a professional speaker at various forums including the British Council’s Global Higher Education Dialogues in Sri Lanka, the UK and the UAE, World Quality Congress, Leadership Congress in the UAE, OLC Forum and Ideas Arabia, UAE. In June 2014, she also became a recipient of the Leadership Quality Award from the World Quality Congress in Mumbai. Dr Lasrado currently has more than 30 publications that include journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. Her current research interest includes Green Management, Business Excellence, innovation management and sustainable development


Dr. Zakaria holds a PhD in Information Science and Technology and a MPhil of Information Transfer from Syracuse University, USA; an MS in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA; and a BBA in Human Resources Management from University Utara Malaysia. She is Associate Professor on the Faculty of Business and Management at the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD), where she teaches courses in responsible leadership, intercultural applications for socially innovative business, and managerial concepts and skills. Her educational training bridges the interdisciplinary fields of cross-cultural management, international human resource management, international business, and computer-mediated communication technology. Her research program aims at exploring how and why cultural values shape people in terms of decision-making, negotiation, communication styles, leadership, and management practices. Her new research involves compiling cross-cultural tool kits for human resources training of global virtual teams. Her most recent book, "Culture Matters: Decision Making of Global Virtual Teams" is published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group in 2017. She is currently engaged in another book project, "Culturally-Oriented Challenges for Self-Initiated Expatriates (SIEs) in Multinational Organizations: Emerging Research and Opportunities", which is expected to be published by IGI Global in late 2017. For over a decade, she has collaborated with global scholars from the United States, Japan, Malaysia, and Canada. She is currently working with a South African scholar to understand cultural identity in the workplace from Muslim women’s perspective. She has secured numerous international grants as Principal Investigator from the Asian Office of Aerospace Research Development as well as Co-Investigator from research grants such as the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences, the Nippon Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Some of her high-impact publications, indexed by ERA, ISI and Scopus, include: Academy of Management and Learning Education, International Journal of Manpower, IT & People, The Database

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The authors provide questions to facilitate interesting and thought-provoking discussions, to teach key quality concepts, and to apply relevant theoretical frameworks.