Data Accuracy and Completeness of Monthly Midwifery Returns Indicators of Ejisu Juaben Health Directorate of Ghana

The broad range of activities contained in the provision of Primary Health Care (PHC) places a burden on providers to make optimal use of limited resources to achieve maximal health benefit to the population served. All too often, ad hoc decisions and personal preferences guide PHC resource allocations, making accountability for results impossible. Problems constraining Routine Health Information System (RHIS) performance in low-income countries include: poor data quality; limited use of available information; weaknesses in how data are analyzed and poor RHIS management practices. This study sought to investigate these constraints. A non-experimental before and after study involving bassline assessment of data accuracy and completeness, application of innovative strategies such as mentoring and coaching of Health Information Officers in data quality improvement process. Coincidentally, the intervention improved both data accuracy and completeness performance significantly among the participating facilities. The outstanding performance may be attributed to management's new orientation and growing interest towards quality data. Engaging frontline staff in data quality improvement work and provision of regular feedback leads to improvement in data accuracy and completeness. This has implications for decision-making and resource allocation, especially in low-income countries, where the routine health information management system relies heavily on paper work

IMPROVEMENT MANAGEMENT OF TEACHER RESOURCE AMONG VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL BASED ON INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SCHOOL INVEST (INDONESIA VOCATIONAL EDUCATION STRENGTHENING) IN YOGYAKARTA

ABSTRACT This education research aimed to: (1) find an overview of resource about teacher’s resource improvement management in vocational high school based on international INVEST in Yogyakarta, (2) find the effectiveness for the implementation of quality improvement resource teacher program at vocational high school based on international standard INVEST in Yogyakarta and (3) to know the constraints that experienced by vocational high school based on international standard INVEST in Yogyakarta in the implementation of improvement quality for teacher’s resource program. This education is an evaluation study (Evaluation Research), which was done through a case study on two vocational schools in Yogyakarta; they are SMKN 2 Yogyakarta and SMKN 2 Depok Sleman. Data collection methods were done by observation, questionnaires and unstructured interviews. Analysis techniques of data were used to adjust the data’s type obtained, and quantitative data were analyzed by using the descriptive statistical techniques, while qualitative data were analyzed by qualitative descriptive analysis. These results indicate that outlines an overview of resource’s management to improve the teacher’s quality at vocational high school based on international standard INVEST includes the several stages/processes such as: crawl (recruitment), filtering (selection), the placement/assignment, assessment/ evaluation of teacher’s performance, and teachers career’s development. From the five stages of the process, there is one of the most dominant/prominent and effective enough to be implemented by the school teacher is a career development process. This process aims to improve the graduate teacher’s quality in order to obtain the appropriate competence. Problems were encountered in the recruitment and selection process, among others, totaly has done by the municipal government and district government, while the problems were encountered in the placement process, evaluation and career development is generally caused by lack of school’s budget, also the technical and non technical constraints. Keywords: Quality Management, Resource Teacher, Vocational High School Based On International Standard INVES

Trends in quality management research in higher education institutions

The purpose of this study is to determine the state of research in quality management in higher education institutions based on a review of the academic literature. The aim is to provide universities with the best evidence for informing their focus and models for quality improvement. Despite quality’s role growing in importance as universities strive to compete in an increasingly underfunded market for students and research funds the review shows that current research is limited in volume and scope. To ensure the widest coverage in our systematic literature review we use three databases: ScienceDirect, ABI/Inform, and Emerald. The findings show that the three most common topics are quality management implementation issues, quality management models, techniques and tools, and quality management dimensions. The key quality management enabling dimensions found are: people management, process management and information and analysis, while the results dimension is predominantly focused on an understanding of stakeholders’ requirements and feedback on their perceptions of performance. We find in this literature that students are discussed as both end customers as graduates and participants in the learning process who have views on their experience. Also provided is an analysis that shows popular journal outlets, research methodologies used and country focus. The paper concludes with recommendations for the development of quality management for universities, and a future research agenda. This article is the first literature of research in quality management in Higher Education Institutions following the model used in previous literature reviews on quality management and operations management

ANALISIS PENGARUH FAKTOR-FAKTOR TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM) TERHADAP KINERJA BISNIS PERUSAHAAN (Studi Pada Empat Pabrik Gondorukem Terpentin Perhutani Unit 1 Jawa Tengah)

Quality is important for companies to be able to compete with other companies. The selection of proper management strategies made firm can increase the business performance. The strategy of integrated quality management or Total Quality Management (TQM) can be an option to maintain and improve the quality of the products of a company's business performance. This study aims to analyze the influence of the independent variables management leadership, customer focus, information and analysis, process management, product design, and continuous improvement of the dependent variable business performance on the mill gondorukem turpentine Perhutani Unit 1 Central Java The population in the study was 187 employees from four factory gondorukem turpentine Perhutani Unit 1 Central Java. The sample used in this study as many as 130 employees from four factory gondorukem turpentine Perhutani Unit 1 Central Java. Model analysis using multiple linear analysis and tools to process data using SPSS 20 for windows. The result of the analysis indicate that management leadership, customer focus, information and anlisis, process management, product design, and continuous improvement have a positive and significant influence to business performance. The company's business performance will be improved if the company can improve the quality of its products. With the implementation of TQM, vision and mission can be achieved, decision-making and problem solving are influenced by all parties, The fulfillment expectation of consumers, and eliminating defective products so that waste can be eliminated and will increase profits for the company

Establishment of High-Performance teams on a platform: A case study of an operation team in COSL

Master's thesis in Offshore technology : industrial economicsAs one oilfield service company, it is the final goal that to get the win-win with the customers. And during the service process, both the customers and company need high quality on the performance performed by the operation team. The performance management is an important task for the company to consider to improve the performance. High Performance management is a efficient approach that been used to achieve the goal of company. The author organized and joined in the performance management about the operation team on the jack-up platform HYSY902. The high performance management to build the High-Performance team is organized and executed strictly by each operation team. This is one inner high performance managing progress. Standards for conducting the performance are made by the company based on the requirements on the improvement of safety management, equipment management, human sources management, customer service management etc. Those standards are the KPI for the final inspection.The operation team make the plan to comply with all the standards through analysis them. Then, executing the plan step by step until to pass the inspection by the company. But this process is a continual courses to keep improvement as the changes of inner and outer environment. The High-Performance management focus on the quality of the performance. Following the direction of basic theories and keeping the continual improvement, the operation teams enhanced the attention on the quality to each performance, improved the competitive power, built strong teams to complete challenges in the future

THE HR IMPACT ON ROMANIAN UNIVERSITIES EDUCATION QUALITY

Higher education is the main supplier of experts who will lead in the near future the Romanian society and its integrated economy into the European Union. Obtaining a quality-oriented behavior is a major constraint in the actual process of real European integration of Romania, representing meanwhile a key aspect in gathering the economic prosperity as the nation longs for more than 20 years. A major importance in this respect has the educational component. It becomes obvious that all of the universities` work must be oriented towards increasing the competitiveness of the institution both at nationally and internationally level. This can be achieved through quality work and results, a performing management, an appropriate financial policy of the rational resources` use and gathering of the new resources, strengthening the international dimension of business and encouraging a responsible attitude by the staff side. For any higher education’s institution, the quality management must become the main path to increase its performance and prestige. Unfortunately, in many universities the quality management is confused with accreditation and the efforts are being made to achieving the standards` requirement, while continuous improvement is overlooked, followed closely by an element often not taken into account in the Romanian educational process: students` perspective.Higher education, Quality assurance, Continuous improvement, Human resources, Students` perspective

Systems design analysis applied to launch vehicle configuration

As emphasis shifts from optimum-performance aerospace systems to least lift-cycle costs, systems designs must seek, adapt, and innovate cost improvement techniques in design through operations. The systems design process of concept, definition, and design was assessed for the types and flow of total quality management techniques that may be applicable in a launch vehicle systems design analysis. Techniques discussed are task ordering, quality leverage, concurrent engineering, Pareto's principle, robustness, quality function deployment, criteria, and others. These cost oriented techniques are as applicable to aerospace systems design analysis as to any large commercial system

Organizational factors and depression management in community-based primary care settings

Abstract Background Evidence-based quality improvement models for depression have not been fully implemented in routine primary care settings. To date, few studies have examined the organizational factors associated with depression management in real-world primary care practice. To successfully implement quality improvement models for depression, there must be a better understanding of the relevant organizational structure and processes of the primary care setting. The objective of this study is to describe these organizational features of routine primary care practice, and the organization of depression care, using survey questions derived from an evidence-based framework. Methods We used this framework to implement a survey of 27 practices comprised of 49 unique offices within a large primary care practice network in western Pennsylvania. Survey questions addressed practice structure (e.g., human resources, leadership, information technology (IT) infrastructure, and external incentives) and process features (e.g., staff performance, degree of integrated depression care, and IT performance). Results The results of our survey demonstrated substantial variation across the practice network of organizational factors pertinent to implementation of evidence-based depression management. Notably, quality improvement capability and IT infrastructure were widespread, but specific application to depression care differed between practices, as did coordination and communication tasks surrounding depression treatment. Conclusions The primary care practices in the network that we surveyed are at differing stages in their organization and implementation of evidence-based depression management. Practical surveys such as this may serve to better direct implementation of these quality improvement strategies for depression by improving understanding of the organizational barriers and facilitators that exist within both practices and practice networks. In addition, survey information can inform efforts of individual primary care practices in customizing intervention strategies to improve depression management.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78269/1/1748-5908-4-84.xmlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78269/2/1748-5908-4-84-S1.PDFhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78269/3/1748-5908-4-84.pdfPeer Reviewe

Constrained bayesian inference of project performance models

Project performance models play an important role in the management of project success. When used for monitoring projects, they can offer predictive ability such as indications of possible delivery problems. Approaches for monitoring project performance relies on available project information including restrictions imposed on the project, particularly the constraints of cost, quality, scope and time. We study in this paper a Bayesian inference methodology for project performance modelling in environments where information about project constraints is available and can be exploited for improved project performance. We apply the methodology to probabilistic modelling of project S-curves, a graphical representation of a project’s cumulative progress. We show how the methodology could be used to improve confidence bounds on project performance predictions. We present results of a simulated process improvement project in agile setting to demonstrate our approach

TQM and performance appraisal : complementary or incompatible?

Despite the scholarly interest in performance management as a key determinant of the effectiveness of enterprise process improvement methods such as total quality management (TQM) and its derivatives, few empirical studies have explicitly explored the practice of performance management systems in TQM‐focused organizations. In order to redress this imbalance, this study aims to describe how organizational and managerial forces led to a performance management systems failing to embrace the core principles of process improvement methods such as TQM. Using a qualitative study of six large UK‐based automobile and auto parts manufacturers, our results illustrate how manager‐controlled, individual‐focused, past‐oriented, long‐cycle, and narrowly defined performance appraisal (PA) systems can intervene to underline the ultimate potential of TQM. The paper concludes with the discussion of implications for theory and practice of TQM and human resource performance management