Quality is conformance to the claims made. A quality circle is a volunteer group composed of workers or even a group of students now-a-days who meet together to discuss workplace improvement, and make presentations to management with their ideas. Typical topics are improving safety, improving product design, and improvement in manufacturing process. This can not only improve the performance of any organisation, but also motivate and enrich the work life of employees. For the Talib Kweli album Quality (album) Quality can refer to a. ...

Quality circles have the advantage of continuity, the circle remains intact from project to project. (For a comparison to Quality Improvement Teams see Juran's Quality by Design^[1].

Quality Circles were started in Japan in 1962 (Kaoru Ishikawa has been credited for creating Quality Circles) as another method of improving quality. The movement in Japan was coordinated by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE). Prof. Ishikawa, who believed in tapping the creative potential of workers, innovated the Quality Circle movement to give Japanese industry that extra creative edge. Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kaoru Ishikawa (石川 馨 Ishikawa Kaoru) is a Japanese consultant, father of the scientific analysis of causes of problems in an industrial process. ...

The use of Quality Circles in many highly innovative companies in the Scandinavian countries has been proven. The practice of it is recommended by many economist/business scholars. There are diffrent quality circle tools namely The Ishikawa diagram-- Which shows the cause and effect while approaching a problem The pareto chart--which gives the eighty twenty factor to find the vital cause The PDCA - DEMING wheel -- Plan Do Check Act after analysing the causes and when the solution is found we go for standardistion now quality circles are implemented even in educational sectors in India and QCFI(Quality Circle Forum of India is Promoting such activities.

See also

teamwork community of practice Teamwork is the concept of people working together cooperatively, as in a sports team. ... The concept of a community of practice (often abbreviated as CoP) refers to the process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations. ...

References

1. ^ Quality by Design, J.M. Juran, The Free Press, 1992, ISBN 0-02-916683-7. Pages 394-399

• The Quality Book, by Greg Hutchins, published by QPE, Portland OR. 1996
• Guide to Students` Quality Circles: An Approach to Prepare Total Quality People, by Prof. Dinesh P Chapagain, Published by NQPCN, Nepal, 2006
• Innovation in the Knowledge-Based Economy:ChallengesAhead (B-Å Lundvall, 2006) Article citing the importance of the Quality Circles.