The document outlines 8 quality management principles standardized by ISO: 1) Customer focus, 2) Leadership, 3) People involvement, 4) Process orientation, 5) System management approach, 6) Continuous improvement, 7) Fact-based decision making, and 8) Mutually beneficial supplier relationships. Each principle is described in 1-3 paragraphs outlining its key aspects and requirements for effective implementation.

1. Quality
Management
Principles

2. Quality Management Principles standardized by ISO
1. Customer focused Organization
2. Leadership
3. Involvement of people
4. Process orientation
5. System approach to management
6. Continuous Improvement
7. Factual approach to decision making
8. Mutually beneficial supplier relationships.

3. 1. Customer focused
Organization
Organizations depend on their customers and therefore should
understand current and future needs, meet customer requirements
and strive to exceed customer expectations. This requires :
• Identification of customers ( Internal & external )
• Understanding stated and implied needs / expectations.
• Establishing measures of satisfaction customer needs/ expectations.

4. Customer focused
Organization
• Determining how far customer needs are being met at present.
• Efficient processing of customer complaints.
• Establishing customer focus down the line including distributors.
• Seeking customer feedback and its analysis for taking measures to
improve customer satisfaction.

5. 2. Leadership
Leaders establish unity of purpose and direction of the organization.
They should create and maintain the internal environment in which
people can become fully involved in achieving the organization's
objectives. This requires the following steps :
• Establish long term vision and strategy.
• Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to their values, interests,
hopes and dreams.

6. Leadership
• Search for challenging opportunities to change, grow, innovate
and improve.
• Experiment, take risk and learn from the mistakes.
• Foster collaboration by promoting cooperative goals and building
trust.

7. Leadership
• Strengthening others by sharing information and power and
increasing their discretion and visibility.
• Set an example by behaving in the ways that is consistent with the
stated values.
• Plan small wins that promote consistent progress and build
commitment.
• Recognize individual contributions to the success of every project.

8. 3. Involvement of people
People at all levels are the essence of an organization and their full
involvement enables their abilities to be used for the organization’s
benefit. This requires :
• Employees must be treated with dignity and respect.
• They must be trained to build competence where required.
• Each employee must know what exactly is required to be done and
where possible must be able to assess the quality of his work.
• Fear must be totally removed from the organization and employees must
be encouraged to bring out weakness in the system.

9. Involvement of people
• Empower employees to take appropriate action in their area of work for
improvement.
• In case of a mistake, examine the system rather than the man to
prevent its recurrence.
• Involve employees in quality plans and draw upon their intimate
knowledge of processes for improvement.
• Assess employee satisfaction level and take appropriate measures to
improve their morale so that they take pride in belonging to the
company.

10. 4. Process
orientation
A desired result is achieved more efficiently when related resources
and activities are managed as a process. This requires :
• Planning of processes to meet customer requirements.
• Process capability study and qualification of process.
• Establishment of mechanism to keep process under control.
• Ownership of process with full responsibility of quality.

11. Process orientation
• Verification of product/ service for conformance before instruments.
• Maintenance/ calibration of process equipments and measuring
instruments.
• Analysis of process data for improvement.

12. 5. System approach to
management
Identifying, understanding and managing a system of interrelated
processes for a given objective improves the organization’s
effectiveness and efficiency. This requires -

13. System approach to
management
• Clear objectives.
• Organizational structure with well defined authority and
responsibility.
• Planning for Quality .
• Control of functions affecting quality.
• Coordinating of interrelated processes.
• Audit mechanism for self regulated organization.

14. 6. Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement should be a permanent objective of the
organization. This requires :
• Measurement of quality.
• Analysis of quality data and investigations for non conformities.
• Seeking opportunities for improvement rather than reacting to quality
problems.
• Benchmarking.

15. Continuous Improvement
• Organization for quality improvement like quality circles, quality
improvement teams for taking up specific projects.
• Review of Q.I.P’s ( Quality Improvement Projects ) by top
management.
• Recognition of significant achievements.

16. 7. Factual approach to
decision making
Effective decisions are based on the analysis of data and information. This
requires :
Recording of data on :
Quantitative production
Equipment failures
Process conditions
Delivery performance
Customer complaints
Quality costs
Supplier performance.

17. Factual approach to
decision making
• Ensuring the data is accurate, reliable and accessible.
• Analysis of data to understand the impact on organizational
performance and cost implications and for deciding corrective actions.
• Data on results of application of corrective action.

18. 8. Mutually beneficial
supplier relationships .
An organization and its suppliers are interdependent, and a mutually
beneficial relationship enhances the ability of both to create value. This
requires :
• Consideration of quality capability while selecting vendors.
• Specification of quality on purchase documents.
• Clear understanding of supplier needs.

19. Mutually beneficial
supplier relationships.
• Mutual trust and share responsibility and accountability.
• Clear and open communication.
• Mutual commitment for continuous improvement.

20. FICCI CE