Quality is as long as it meets a customers requirement. Businesses must set targets
to achieve quality
Total quality management (TQM)
Every member of staff is focused on spotting and preventing errors
and ensuring quality at each stage of the production. Stopping a
problem before it happens
some staff cant be bothered to check quality constantly and dont want to tell
co-workers to raise their working abilities
Measuring quality and identifying problems
Customers may be asked to complete surveys or complaints to check quality
Mystery visitors go to places like a shop or hotel and monitor how they are treated by staff and the
quality they get the report it back to the management that hired them
Staff can be asked to check quality of work they have done at each stage
Consequence of bad quality
customer dissatisfaction, posting poor reviews so no new customers will
come and the customer wont come back and cause a fall in profit
Cost of recalling faulty products, (swegway incident)
cost or replacing goods that were defective including bad reputation
Cost of waste, poor quality means products have to be thrown
away, waste of material
Maintaining quality
Suppliers must be reliable who use good quality products
Staff must be trained to know quality standards.
Invest in quality equipment
Inspect product at each stage
Costs of improving quality
Inspection and checking quality control
Training staff to check own quality
Quality
benefits
Customers are loyal
Avoiding mistakes saves money
Can often charge for premium products
Can improve brand image
and reputation
Costs
Inspection and checking quality control
Training staff to check their own quality
Things preventing achieving consistent quality
Finding reliable suppliers that can achieve business quality targets
If a business wants to grow it can be difficult to control quality as it involves so many people