TY - BOOK AU - Beckford, John TI - Quality: A Critical Introduction SN - 9781138186125 U1 - 658.562 PY - 2017/// CY - Oxon PB - Routledge KW - Quality N1 - Part I: Introducing Quality 1. The Quality Imperative 2. Quality: A Strategic Decision 3. Barriers to Quality 4. The Emergence of Management Part II: The Quality Gurus 5. Philip B. Crosby 6. W. Edwards Deming 7. Armand V. Feigenbaum 8. Kaoru Ishikawa 9. Joseph M. Juran 10. John S. Oakland 11. Taiichi Ohno 12. Shigeo Shingo 13. Genichi Taguchi Part III: Contemporary Thinking 14. Quality Management System Standards 15. Organisations as Systems 16. Systems Methodologies 17. Business Process Re-Engineering 18. The Learning Organisation 19. Service Quality Management Part IV: Methods, Tools & Techniques 20. Western Paper: A Problem of Quality? 21. First Intervention 22. Second Intervention 23. Final Intervention ER -