Sunday, August 15, 2010

TQM and HR-- Attemped questions and answers

Multiple choice Single response
1) A business uses for its operations, products both in

• Hard and soft domains
2) These are costs incurred in keeping failure and appraisal costs to minimum

• Prevention costs
3) How many levels of plan are there?

• 4
4) The business influences

• Employee’s morale
5) Leadership is

• Cause of success in business
6) The idea of quality department

• is outdated

7) Common understanding across business

• customers---
8) Collection of data must be tune with the organizational objectives defined by the

• top management
9) QFD means

• Quality function deployment
10) Customer is

• king


11) For objective evaluation of strategy, the criteria is

• strategic fit

12) This tool helps in arriving at possible solutions from a set of alternatives and thus analysis leads to giving recommendations for decision making.

• Brain storming



13) Feiganbaum’s major contribution was

• Cost of quality.


14) Prevention costs are those incurred

• On taking steps to prevent defects happening



15) Managing continual improvement is

• A process subsequent to defining strategies.



Multiple choice multiple answers


1) When you ask a question on “place” the answers give you options for and then you weigh the options to reach a conclusion, the options are

• Establishing the process in house

• The preferred location from an input point

• Outsource



2) Managers should know

• organisation vision---

• organisation strategy—


3) Business being process oriented, you are to control your

• resources

• examine business trends

• measuring outcome of each process



4) In ISO 14001 in paragraph of standard consists of requirements like



• operational control

• emergency preparedness

• management reviews



5) Customers need change with

• Time

• Space

6) The scope of audit during the audit of sales could be to examine

• The customer satisfaction

• How the orders were executed

• Contribution to turnover



7) Benefits of planning are

• Image

• Competition



8) You should know customer’s

• Current needs

• Future needs



9) Business needs following criteria as performance assessement

• Standing in the market

• Quality culture in the organisation

• Cost reduction



10) ISO 14001-in the paragraph 4 of standard-requirement for planning stages are:



Correct answer:

• Identify environmental aspects

• Determine those that can have a significant impact

• Understand the legal and other requirments too.



11) ISO developed co-operation in the spheres of

• Scientific activities

• peace

12) Not all incentives appeal to all but following must get analyzed

• Individual trends

• Individual preference

• Individual experience



13) Categorisation of quality cost include

• Appriassal cost

• Prevention cost

• Failure cost


True or false

1) Understanding customer is not only important for design but equally so for delivery of product or service--- true



2)Like you have internal customers, there are internal suppliers too---True



3)Planning decreases time to lead in competition—True



4) Standard should be generic--True



5) Meaning of strategy is art/science of planning—Ans. True



6) Instutionalisaton is the concept that an organisation ingrains the processes as a standard practice or a way of conducting business.--- True



7) Specific goals directs organizations on “don’t’s”--false



8) A simple compelling and shared vision can sustain the commitment needed—True



9) At the time of brain storming every member starts talking.—false



10) A vision for business must be compelling---True



11) People do not capabilites to respond to a range of situations--False

12) PDCA cycle was introduced by Walter Shewalt—False



13) During the 1960s the concept of quality costs emerged--- True



14) Collection of data must be in tune with the organisation’s objective as defined by the top management.---True



Select the blank



1)Business is a set of ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬___________________ processes

• Strategic

2) Quality of product or service is because the __________________not because of verification or inspection.

• Design


3) The system is an --------- set of activities with a mutual influence through a well-defined sequence of relation.

• Inter-related

4) Organisations need a leader to give a ----

• Direction



5) The ---- is the ability of the QMS to achieve the targeted results

• Integrity



6) In degree of instutionalisation, a managed process that is tailored from the organisations’ standard process according to the tailoring guildelines is the meaning of the term:

• Defined processes----



7) Top management of Karnataka Steel Ltd being concerned about the

• Welfare of workers



8) In process concept with ------- you can provide a way to incorporate knowledge of how to do things better.

• Interdependence



9) Those who are not ---- will never make any progress

• aware



10) ---- is the measurement scale where values occur most frequently.

• mean



11) Objective evaluation is a ___________________ activity on part of the management and is a situational analysis.

• Deliberate



12) In hierarchy of human needs, food and shelter are ___________

• Essential needs.


Match the following:



1)Internal organisation for standardization---ISO

Bureau of Indian standards--BIS

Greek “isos---equal

Official operation of ISO---1947

2)TQM- is a philosophy

Total quality management—needs commitment at the top management

Motivation-Enhances morale of the people

Quality of measurement process is: essential at each level in an organisation.



3)

Phil crobsy---14 steps quality improvement program

Taguchi----Quality in design

Ichikawa-- Company wide motivation

Crosby---quality of management