Procedural

Examples of Procedural in the following topics:

• Clean production defined

  • Food service setups, service provider procedures, delivery routines, office systems, even agriculture are all good examples of ‘production' in that commodities (e.g. raw materials) flow from one area (or machine or department) to another whereupon a set of procedures, labour skills or other processes are performed so as to end up with a finished product (or service).

• Processes

  • A process is defined as: (1) a series of progressive, interrelated steps or actions from which an end result is attained, or (2) a prescribed procedure or a method of conducting affairs.

• Quality costs

  • Total Quality Management (TQM) is the organization-wide management of quality that includes facilities, equipment, labor, suppliers, customers, policies, and procedures.
  • Lifeguards at a swimming pool must know proper procedures for keeping swimmers safe.
  • Documenting quality is a necessary prevention cost because it helps the organization track quality performance, identify quality problems, collect data, and specify procedures that contribute to the pursuit of zero defects.
  • Quality audits are checks of quality procedures to ensure that employees and suppliers are following proper quality practices.
  • It would have been much cheaper to have procedures in place to prevent such a mistake from happening in the first place.

• Complaint Procedures

• Quality Inspections and Standards

  • Quality audits are typically performed at predefined time intervals and ensure that the institution has clearly defined internal system monitoring procedures linked to effective action.
  • This can help determine if the organization complies with the defined quality system processes and can involve procedural or results-based assessment criteria.
  • With the upgrade of the ISO 9000 series of standards from the 1994 to 2008 series, the focus of the audits has shifted from purely procedural adherence towards measurement of the actual effectiveness of the Quality Management System (QMS) and the results that have been achieved through the implementation of a QMS.
  • Initiated in the UK, the process is focused primarily on procedural issues rather than on the results or the efficiency of a quality system implementation.

• Introduction to What the Reformer is Up Against

  • For example: would you adopt cost-free procedures that resulted in your company saving 29,000 annually; or – would you adopt cost-free procedures that cut carbon emissions by 139,000 kilos per year?
  • Focusing more on what is unknown rather than what is known – for example,endlessly debating the exact amount of money that a sustainable procedure will save (€200,000 or €500,000) rather than the fact that the procedure will save more than it costs.

• Just do it

  • Managing change in the face of strong opposition may therefore require stern procedures that include disciplinary action, reassignment or perhaps termination.

• Corporate Policies

  • Jones and Parker write, "Most of what we read under the name business ethics is either sentimental common sense, or a set of excuses for being unpleasant. " Many manuals are procedural form filling exercises unconcerned about the real ethical dilemmas.
  • For instance, the US Department of Commerce ethics program treats business ethics as a set of instructions and procedures to be followed by 'ethics officers'.

• Fairness

  • Procedural - Employees don't only want compensation.
  • When designing the procedure of a given work group, inclusion of everyone's perspectives can lead to substantially higher satisfaction, efficiency, and fairness.

• Security risks and internet risks

  • This is why it is important to have a procedure of backing up critical files on a daily basis, and have written, tested procedures to recover needed information from backup files quickly.