Quality-focused Management


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
The ISO 9000:2000 Quality Management System (QMS) model is made up of four major clauses: Management Responsibility, Resource Management, Product Realisation and Measurement, Analysis and Improvement. This course provides an overview of the clause "Management Responsibility". It details management's role in establishing a quality policy and its responsibility to support and administer the organisation's quality management system. Management must also conduct an ongoing evaluation of the quality management system in order to measure its effectiveness and to continually improve the QMS. This course is highly important for management.

Target Audience
This course is designed for all managers and people involved in quality assurance who desire an introduction to the ISO 9001:2000 Management Responsibility clause.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Management's Responsibilities

  • identify how management's leadership is vital to the success of an organisation's quality management system.
  • match examples of management activities with the four ISO requirements for management commitment.
  • recognise the management responsibilities needed to achieve customer focus.
  • select the quality expectations that management must communicate to all employees within an organisation.
  • Quality Policy Development and Planning

  • identify the benefits of management's participation in quality policy planning and development.
  • analyse the quality policy and related documents of an organisation in order to determine compliance with the ISO 9001:2000 standard for quality policies.
  • analyse the quality objectives of an organisation in order to determine compliance with the ISO 9001:2000 standard for quality objectives.
  • analyse the quality plan of an organisation in order to ensure compliance with the ISO 9001:2000 standard for quality planning.
  • Administration of the Quality Management System

  • identify the benefits of using the ISO standards to assist top management in guiding their organisation's quality system towards continual success.
  • identify examples of activities required of a management representative in administering an organisation's quality management system.
  • identify the ISO 9001:2000 requirements for establishing a quality manual.
  • identify the ISO 9001:2000 requirements for controlling the documentation required for the organisation's quality management system.
  • identify the requirements for the control of quality records.
  • Management Review

  • identify how the organisation benefits when top management regularly reviews the status of their organisation's quality management system.
  • select examples of the strategies management must use when reviewing an organisation's quality management system.
  • select appropriate examples of management strategies for reviewing inputs needed to continually improve the quality management system of an organisation.
  • select examples of management strategies, based upon the outputs of the management review, to continually improve the quality management system of an organisation.
  • Course Number:
    OPER8403