The Baldrige Excellence Framework or Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) is the most prestigious award conferred on U.S. organizations in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors in recognition of their attainment of world-class standards of performance excellence. The award is given by the President of the United States.
In fact, a National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) study in 2000 suggests that the companies comprising the Baldrige award winners have reported average compounded annual growth rates exceeding nine percent, and Kosko (2001) reports that, for the past 7 years, the Baldrige award winners have consistently outperformed the Standard and Poor’s 500 stock index by 4.4 to one.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Understand the Baldrige framework as a model for performance excellence
• Explain the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence
• Define the Baldrige Criteria Point Values and Scoring Guidelines
• Describe the Baldrige assessment and site visit process
CONTENTS
• Overview of the Baldrige Award
• Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence
• Scoring System
• Baldrige Assessment Process
• Baldrige Site Visit
• Baldrige Award Recipients
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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognized businesses for performance excellence. The award recognizes those businesses in the business, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors. Two awards are given in each sector annually. This award was created to focus on quality improvement among products, service, customer quality, strategic quality, and overall organizational quality. As such, companies who receive this award serve as role models for other businesses to follow. In addition, this award promotes information and performance excellence sharing among organizations in order to increase competitiveness in the industry. The main characteristic of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is continuous improvement.
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognized businesses for performance excellence. The award recognizes those businesses in the business, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors. Two awards are given in each sector annually. This award was created to focus on quality improvement among products, service, customer quality, strategic quality, and overall organizational quality. As such, companies who receive this award serve as role models for other businesses to follow. In addition, this award promotes information and performance excellence sharing among organizations in order to increase competitiveness in the industry. The main characteristic of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is continuous improvement.
Category 1 – leadership:This category is used to examine your company’s top management, and their actions to support and direct the company. In addition, it also evaluates the organizations duty to fulfill its role in ethical and social responsibility. Category 2 – Strategic planning: This category examines how the organization develops and implements action plans and strategic processes. It also examines how these implementations are measured and documented for improvement as the situation constantly changes.
Category 3 – Customer Focus: This category examines how the company is developing customers in long-term mutual relationships. It also includes how the organization is listening to the customers, documenting their needs, and creating innovative products or services to fulfill those needs. In addition, it examines how the company is using this information to continue to build customer relations and utilize this information to improve the company’s strategies and goals. Category 4 – Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge of Management: Examines how the company is gathering, organizing, processing, and using data to improve its processes.
The MBNQA has a unique scoring system in which scores are based on a percent basis. IN addition, this system is based on the evaluation of (1) processes and (2) results. The process dimension reflects the methods and theologies which a company uses in their leadership, strategic systems, measurement/analysis/knowledge, customer focus, and workforce focus (categories 1 – 6). This dimension is a factor of approach, deployment, learning, and integration (ADLI). This refers to the methods used by the organization, the way in which they deploy their methods, the way in which the organization learns from their approach, and the extent to which the integrate their findings to align with company-wide goals for continuous improvement.
The MBNQA has a unique scoring system in which scores are based on a percent basis. IN addition, this system is based on the evaluation of (1) processes and (2) results. The process dimension reflects the methods and theologies which a company uses in their leadership, strategic systems, measurement/analysis/knowledge, customer focus, and workforce focus (categories 1 – 6). This dimension is a factor of approach, deployment, learning, and integration (ADLI). This refers to the methods used by the organization, the way in which they deploy their methods, the way in which the organization learns from their approach, and the extent to which the integrate their findings to align with company-wide goals for continuous improvement.
The MBNQA has a unique scoring system in which scores are based on a percent basis. IN addition, this system is based on the evaluation of (1) processes and (2) results. The process dimension reflects the methods and theologies which a company uses in their leadership, strategic systems, measurement/analysis/knowledge, customer focus, and workforce focus (categories 1 – 6). This dimension is a factor of approach, deployment, learning, and integration (ADLI). This refers to the methods used by the organization, the way in which they deploy their methods, the way in which the organization learns from their approach, and the extent to which the integrate their findings to align with company-wide goals for continuous improvement.
Stage 1 – The first step in receiving the Baldrige Award is to submit an application to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in consideration for eligibility. After the application is submitted, it is then reviewed by Baldrige examiners. The examiner then review the application and determine which companies will continue for further review, while the companies who are not selected are given feedback.Stage 2 – Those companies who are selected are then subject to a consensus review by senior examiners, who then determines whether or not the company is qualified for an on-site visit review. These companies who quality for the site visit are known as “Baldrige qualified.”Stage 3 – The site visit is the last stage in which three to four Baldrige examiners tour the company and evaluate its processes and systems. The examiners then provide a feedback report to the company along with their Baldrige score. This feedback ultimately provides the company with evaluations on their strengths and weaknesses within the seven categories.