Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence 9th Edition by James Evans,William Lindsay

Exercise 25

Many countries around the world have professional organizations similar to the American Society for Quality; however, each has its own unique history and offers exclusive activities to its corporate and individual members. They include Excellence Finland, Excellence Ireland, German Society for Quality, Hong Kong Society for Quality, Instituto Profesional Argentino para la Calidad y la Excelencia, Israel Society for Quality, Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE), National Quality Institute (Canada), Programa Gaucho da Qualidade e Produtividade (Brazil), Singapore Quality Institute, and the Spanish Association for Quality. Conduct some research on several of these societies and contrast their similarities and differences.