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Chapter 5
Quality Management Implementation in Higher Education: Practices, Models, and Case Studies
The process of gaining acceptance and preapproval for a proposal by evaluating first the idea and then the plan with management and stakeholders to get input, anticipate resistance, and align the proposed change with other perspectives and priorities in the organization.
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Continuous Improvement Philosophy in Higher Education: Lessons From the DNA of the Toyota Production System to Improve Course/Program Delivery Process
Parminder Singh Kang (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Rajbir Bhatti (Mount Royal University, Canada), and Gurinder Pal Singh (IET Bhaddal, India)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9829-9.ch005
Abstract
This chapter explores the unspoken roles of Toyota production system in the context of program/course delivery process. These rules are; how people work, how people connect, how the workflow is organized, how to improve and who does the improvements. These four unspoken rules of Toyota production system are strict guidelines from the shop floor to the top-level management. Toyota production system emphasizes learner's philosophy to improve the value-added activities by understanding the root cause of a given problem. Under these four rules, further, this chapter will look into the different tools that could be applied for the continuous improvement in course/program delivery process. This paper will define the lean principles and waste in the context of the delivery process.
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A Perspective of Cross-Cultural Psychological Studies for Global Business
It is an informal process of quietly laying the foundation for decision making by talking to the people concerned, gathering support and feedback. It is a strategy used in Japan to avoid conflicts and obtain a consensus at the formal meeting for decision making.
Published in Chapter: A Perspective of Cross-Cultural Psychological Studies for Global Business; From: Handbook of Research on Impacts of International Business and Political Affairs on the Global Economy
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