What are the major disadvantages of having an improvement team that is too large?
. Difficulty in having constructive input from the entire group.
. Difficulty in arriving at consensus.
. Difficulty in finding large meeting facilities.
. Difficulty, on the part of the recorder, in keeping up with more paperwork.
B
Which of the following is NOT considered a prevention cost?
D
An improvement in quality costs is MOST clearly indicated when:
D
During the building phase of improvement team development, which of the following properly
describes team activities?
. The team leader is usually directive.
. The team leader often delegates tasks.
. Team members prioritize and perform duties.
. Team members are uncertain of their duties.
C
Benchmarking might be defined as any of the following EXCEPT:
C
Which of the following is the BEST method to developing materials for a training program on the
gaps in performance?
B
In most cases, an improvement team facilitator will NOT normally:
C
The ideal results of a quality training effort would NOT include which of the following?
A
Information that is received by upper management, is often distorted. Which of the following actions
is effective in countering this problem?
. Stop killing the messenger.
. Establishing an open door policy.
. Practice management by walking around.
D
Which of the following quality gurus was very critical of merit-pay and individual bonuses?
He discouraged management by objectives and the ranking of employees by performance.
B