Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence de James Evans

Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence

James Evans

William Lindsay

MANAGING FOR QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE, 11E helps you learn on your terms. This edition presents the latest developments in the field as you examine fundamental principles, criteria and the historic underpinnings of total quality. The authors provide a solid foundation for understanding and applying technical tools and performance excellence from an enterprise perspective. This digital resource gives you the flexibility to highlight key text, add notes and create custom flashcards. When it�s time to study, everything that has been flagged or noted can be gathered into an easily accessible guide. The Readspeaker feature reads text aloud, so you can learn on the go, wherever you are.

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James R. Evans is a professor emeritus in the Department of Operations, Business Analytics and Information Systems in the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. He has served as president of the Decision Sciences Institute and served for eleven years on the Board of Examiners and Panel of Judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He has been editor of the Quality Management Journal, has been published by the American Society for Quality and has served on editorial boards of numerous other journals. Dr. Evans has published 100 refereed papers and more than fifty editions of leading books in operations management, quality, Six Sigma, simulation, management science and business analytics. During the annual Quality Congress in May 2004, the American Society for Quality presented Dr. Evans and co-author Dr. William Lindsay with the Philip B. Crosby Medal for THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF QUALITY, 5th Edition, also published by Cengage, and now in its 11th edition. The Crosby medal was presented "for authoring a distinguished book contributing significantly to the extension of the philosophy and application of the principles, methods and techniques of quality management." He also received the 2018 Lindner Research Excellence Award from the College of Business at the University of Cincinnati and the 2019 Baldrige Foundation Leadership Award for Excellence in Education.