1. Ch:10 Quality Awards

2. Chapter outline 1- Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award
2- EFQM Excellence Model
3- King Abdul Aziz Quality Award

3. Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award

4. Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award-Aim
It’s a nations public-private partnership dedicated to improving the performance of U.S organizations. Our main focus areas are to
1. Help organizations achieve nest-in-class levels of performance
2. Identify and recognize role-model organizations.
3. Identify and share best management practices, principles and strategies.

5. Baldrige Excellence Framework
The Baldrige Excellence Framework has three parts: (1) the criteria for performance excellence, (2) core values and concepts, and (3) scoring guidelines.
The framework serves two main purposes:
to help organizations assess their improvement efforts, diagnose their overall performance management system, and identify their strengths and opportunities for improvement and
to identify Baldrige Award recipients that will serve as role models for other organizations.

6. The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM)
The Objective: is to increase the effectiveness of European organizations and support the sustainable development of the European economies.
We remain an independent, not for profit foundation; committed to supporting our members in their journey towards excellence. While we focus on Europe, we have a global reach and welcome the opportunity to support all organizations.
Hundreds of organizations, from both the public and private sector, have participated in the EFQM Excellence awards, including Robert Bosch, BMW, VW, Ricoh, Philips as well as small less known organizations.

7. The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM)

8. King Abdul Aziz Quality Award

9. King Abdul Aziz Quality Award
The award is intended to maximize quality, efficiency, and productivity in different sectors within the kingdom.
Some of KAQA objectives-
Promoting the concept of quality and the importance of its application.
Motivating and encouraging public and private sectors to adopt and apply the principles of total quality management on the national level.
Maximizing quality in the production and services sectors to increase their competitiveness in the international markets.
Upgrading organizational leadership to achieve the total management objectives and fulfill their responsibilities.
Making continued improvements to the performance of all production and services processes.
Encouraging organizations to comply with the national and international standards.

10. Home Activity
Research and find out the list of Saudi Arabian companies/Organizations/personalities who have received King Abdul Aziz Quality Award in the year and why they were awarded ?

11. External Links
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