According to Deming, quality stemmed from a steady focus on the organization's mission and
A. a reduction in production variation.
B. Theory Y management.
C. operations research.
D. the Hawthorne effect.
E. complexity theory.
A. a reduction in production variation.
Deming believed that quality stemmed from "constancy of purpose," a steady focus on an organization's mission, along with statistical measurement and reduction of variations in production processes.
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