Baldridge Quality Award

European Eoundation for Quality Management (EFQM) It is derived from the American Malcom Baldridge Quality award. It is an award for organizations that achieve world class performance as judged by independent auditors against a checklist. The checklist is detailed and extensive and covers leadership, people management, policy and strategy, partnerships and resource, processes, people satisfaction, customer satisfaction, impact on society and business results. 

The Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award was established by Congress in 1987 to enhance U.S. competitiveness by promoting quality awareness, recognizing quality achievements of U.S. companies, and publicizing successful... 

The EFQM (European Foundation of Quahty Management) award is derived from America s Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. There are similar accolades available in other countries, such as the Canadian Excellence Awards and the Austrahan Quality Award. The EFQM Award was established in 1991. It is supported by the European Union and the countries in the EU have their own support unit (e.g. British Quality Foundation in the UK). The EFQM model provides a set of cheddist questionnaires under nine categories, each containing maximum points. They are ... 

The Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award (MBNQA) is the U.S. government s national award for quality. [There s an oxymoron for you Government Quality. ]... 

While Deming s work serves as the foundation of TQM, the Baldridge award and many other quality systems, it requires translation to turn his points into the elements of a management system. His points can be used as a simple checklist, but are hard to measure against or even to interpret consistently—making it difficult to use them as a diagnostic tool. 

Another change was the emphasis on quality in order to be competitive in the marketplace. Many organizations rediscovered the work of Juran and Deming on quality and methods for achieving it. There was a national award called the Malcolm Baldridge Award. It recognized the quality improvements of companies. 

The commitment of the company to the values and standards laid out in Our Credo drives management to strive continually for excellence in a number of overlapping areas. Based upon the principles of the Baldridge Award, the Quality Management team of Janssen-Cilag developed a self-assessment process known as Signature of Quality . The process is supported by a checklist on a carefully constructed questionnaire in five interdependent areas ... 

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