Systemic Improvement of Management: Case Analysis of a Company Evaluating Quality Costs

Ramunė Šepetienė; Rasa Čiubrinskienė; Juozas Ruževičius

doi:10.1515/mosr-2017-0009

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Systemic Improvement of Management: Case Analysis of a Company Evaluating Quality Costs

Management of Organizations: Systematic Research

Volume 77 (2017): Issue 1 (June 2017)

By: Ramunė Šepetienė, Rasa Čiubrinskienė and Juozas Ruževičius

Open Access

|Jul 2017

Abstract

The article presents analysis of scientific literature review and the example of practical calculation of quality costs. Attention is paid to the demand of structuring company’s costs through the correlation of its quality costs and maturity of quality in the context of standardisation of services.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mosr-2017-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2335-8750 | Journal ISSN: 1392-1142

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Page range: 153 - 167

Submitted on: Mar 1, 2017

Accepted on: May 30, 2017

Published on: Jul 1, 2017

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Keywords:

quality costs,

maturity of quality,

standardisation,

management development

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Business management,

Marketing, sales, customer relations,

Management, organization, corporate governance,

Business development, change management, cooperation,

Human resources, labor practice, job and career

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