The Green Quality Function Deployment Method for Business Management

Abstract

The Green Quality Function Deployment method is an integrated design method. This study creates the Green Quality Function Deployment method, uses the Green Quality Function Deployment method in a 187-subject business management case study, and presents the Green Quality Function Deployment method case study results This study shows that the Green Quality Function Deployment method is a design method, shows that the Green Quality Function Deployment method can be used for business management, and shows therefore that design methods can be used for business management.

Holistic Education for Sustainable Development: A Study of Shaping the Pro-Quality Attitude of Students in the Polish Educational System

“…Regardless of the impact on sustainability of the original solutions related to quality, attention is drawn to their extensions, deliberately aimed at sustainable development, such as the Green 5-S Model created by the Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (SIRIM) [46], Sustainable Quality Management (SQM) which is based on the integration of traditional QMS with sustainability [47,48], and Green Quality Function Deployment [49,50] or the Green Quality Circle (GQC) which are based on the quality circle known from pro-quality works, but which also take into account aspects related to sustainable development and the impact of the product and process on the environment [51]. The mentioned integration of quality management with sustainable development currently seems to be not only a free innovative proposition, but-as some researchers argue-a trend in which the development of quality management should follow.…”