Syllabus of University of Pune MBA Semester IV-QUALITY MANAGEMENT

(406D)- QUALITY MANAGEMENT

1. Quality, Strategic Planning, and Competitive Advantage: Brief History -
Modern Developments in Quality - A Race Without a Finish Line.
Definitions of Quality. Quality in Manufacturing and Service Systems.
Economic Issues - Quality and Price - Quality and Market Share - Quality
and Cost - The Taguchi Loss Function. Quality & Competitive Advantage.
Perspectives on Leadership for Quality - The Balridge View of Leadership. (8)
2. Principles of Total Quality Management: Introduction - Elements of Total
Quality Management – Strategic Planning and Leadership – A Customer
Focus – Fact-Based Management – Continuous Improvement –
Teamwork and Participation. Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
Award Criteria. Benefits of Total Quality Management. The Deming
Management Philosophy – Profound Knowledge – The Impact of
Profound Knowledge – Deming's 14 Points for Management. The Juran
Philosophy – The Juran Quality Trilogy. The Crosby Philosophy. (10)
3. Customer Focus: The Customer-Driven Quality Cycle – Identifying
Customer Needs – Achieving Customer Requirements in Production –
Implications of the Customer-Driven Quality Cycle. Quality Function
Deployment – The Quality Function Deployment Process - Building the
House of Quality – Implementing Quality Function Deployment. Designing
Quality into Services - Service Needs Identification – Service System
Design. Customer Satisfaction Measurement Techniques - Customer
Relationship Management Techniques. (10)
4. Quality Control and Quality Assurance: Concept of Quality Control –
Concept of Process Variation – Acceptance Sampling – Sampling
Inspection Vs. 100% Inspection – Attributes and variable sampling plans –
OC Curves – Producer and Consumer Risk – AQL, RQL, TQL, AOQL and
AOL. (6)
5. Statistical Process Control: Control Charts – X-R, P, np and C Charts –
Benefits of Control Charts and Applications (2)
6. Quality Management Assistance Tools: Ishikawa Fish Done diagram –
Nominal Group Technique – Quality Circles – Flow Charts – Pareto Analysis
– Pokka Yoke (Mistake Proofing). (6)
7. Reliability: Concept and Components – Concepts of failure – Reliability of
system – Success and Failure models in series and parallel – Methods of
achieving higher reliability – Concept of maintainability and availability –
Comparison with reliability. (4)
8. Managing and organization for quality: Quality Policy – Quality Objectives
– Leadership for Quality – Quality and organization culture – Change
Management – Team Building. Partnerships - Cross-Functional Teams –
Supplier/Customer Partnerships. (6)
9. Quality Management Standards: (Introductory aspects only)
a. The ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System Standard
b. The ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System Standard
c. ISO 27001:2005 Information Security Management System
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d. ISO / TS16949:2002 for Automobile Industry
e. CMMI Fundamentals & Concepts
f. Auditing Techniques - Planning for an audit - Developing a
Check-list -Conducting an Audit - Writing an Audit Report - Auditor Ethics - Value -
addition process during Internal Audit - Mock Audits - Quiz. (8)

Books Recommended
1. Quality Control - Dale H Bester field – Pearson Education
2. Total Quality Management – Sundarrajan
3. Quality Control & Total Quality Management – Jain
4. The essence of Total Quality Management – Hunsen & Ghare
5. Managing for Total Quality – Logothetic
6. Quality Problem Solving – Smith
7. ISO 9000 – Kairon
8. Manuals of various standards.

Syllabus of University of Pune MBA Semester IV-QUALITY MANAGEMENT

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