Benefits and Difficulties of Improving Quality
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- Created on: 28-02-17 09:36
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- Benefits and Difficulties in Improving Quality
- Difficulties
- Problems with staff
- It can be difficult to convince people there is a problem with quality and it is not as good as it should be
- Disagreements in what the best solution is to correct the quality problem
- Quality systems as such as quality assurance give greater responsibility to staff
- New quality systems require staff to be retrained, which can be time consuming
- Resistance to change can be difficult to overcome
- Costs
- Training staff
- Admin required to introduce a new quality system and introducing/updating information systems to monitor its effectiveness
- Organising testing of inputs/raw materials before they reach the production line
- Employing more inspection staff or allocating more time for workers to check quality
- Installing equipment for quality testing
- Problems with staff
- Benefits
- Gaining a competitive advantage
- Increasing sales volume
- Creating a unique selling point
- More scope to increase the selling price
- Greater opportunities for pricing flexability
- Cost reductions
- Greater brand loyalty and enhancement of a firms reputation
- Difficulties
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