Assignment
Locate and read six scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on Lean Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, and Continuous Quality Management.
In this assignment, you will write two executive summaries:
one on Lean Six Sigma
and one on either Total Quality Management or Continuous Quality Management.
In each summary, you will include the following:
• A succinct overview of the model
• The pros and cons of the model
• The impact of the model on quality at the patient level
Each of your well-written executive summaries should meet the following requirements:
• Each summary should betwo pages in length, excluding the reference page.
• Each summary should have its own reference page.
• Provide full APA references for the articles selected and any additional sources used, along with appropriate in-text citations. You may use two of the same references for each executive summary.
• Formatted per APA formatting.
• Utilize headings to organize the content of your work.
Lean sigma references:
Yadav, G., & Desai, T. N. (2016). Lean Six Sigma: a categorized review of the literature. International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, 7(1), 2-24.
Fuwad, A., Ramasamy, R., Sebastian, A., Ashique, M., Mathew, R. J., &Yalla, U. T. (2015). The application of Lean Six Sigma to provide high quality, reliable health care. Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 81-81.
Mason, S. E., Nicolay, C. R., & Darzi, A. (2015). The use of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies in surgery: A systematic review. The Surgeon, 13(2), 91-100.
Total quality management:
Sadikoglu, E., &Olcay, H. (2014). The effects of total quality management practices on performance and the reasons of and the barriers to TQM practices in Turkey. Advances in Decision Sciences, 2014.
Ali, K. A. M., &Alolayyan, M. N. (2013). The impact of total quality management (TQM) on the hospital's performance: an empirical research. International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 15(4), 482-506.
Alaraki, M. S. (2014). The impact of critical total quality management practices on hospital performance in the Ministry of Health hospitals in Saudi Arabia. Quality Management in Healthcare, 23(1), 59-63.