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BOSP 326 week 8 final Exam(All Questions with Correct Answers)
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BOSP 326 week 8 final Exam(All Questions with Correct Answers)
1. (TCO 1) Which of the following practices were utilized by most companies to maintain quality levels
until the start of the 1980s?
Team-based initiatives
Process-improvement efforts
Design-quality reviews
Mass inspection
2. (TCO 1) Quality is most difficult to measure and analyze under which of the following definitions?
Judgmental
User-based
Product-based
Value-based
3. (TCO 2) Which of the following systems do not have a role to play in assuring quality in a
manufacturing firm?
Sales
Purchasing
Tool Engineering
None (All answers have a role.)
4. (TCO 2) _____ is a challenge facing many service firms such as Avis, Inc.'s Worldwide Reservation
Center that handles millions of calls and books more than six million reservations in a year.
The high volume of transactions leading to numerous opportunities for error
Service sector decline
The inability to define and measure quality
High labor turnover
5. (TCO 3) In which of the following categories can companies receive a Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award?
Small business
Manufacturing
Service
All of the above
6. (TCO 3) ISO 9000:2000 defines a _____-based approach to quality management systems.
customer
statistics
process
product
7. (TCO 4) _____ is a method the Deming philosophy focuses on for improvements in product and
service quality.
100 percent inspection
Reducing variation

Financial analysis
Separating the planning and execution functions of management
8. (TCO 4) The primary reason for Deming's position that slogans should be eliminated is which of the
following?
9. (TCO 5) Measurable performance levels that define the quality of customer contact with an
organization's representatives are known as which of the following?
Customer contact requirements
Quality function deployments
Indexed service standards
Consumer benefits packages
10. (TCO 5) Maintaining a clean, well-lit waiting room in a doctor's office is an example of which
service-quality dimension?
Competence
Courtesy
Communication
Tangibles
11. (TCO 6) The leadership skill of _____ is demonstrated by leaders who encourage employees to
participate in quality-improvement efforts and develop cross-functional teamwork and customer-supplier
partnerships.
visioning
intuition
empowerment
self-understanding
12. (TCO 6) The _____ theory of leadership suggests that the manner in which leaders deal with
subordinates depends on contingent rewards and punishments.
attributional
transactional
substitutes for leadership
emotional intelligence
13. (TCO 7) Employee suggestion systems have been used to identify ways to _____.
improve quality
reduce costs
improve worker safety
All of the above
14. (TCO 7) Under Herzberg's theory of motivation, worker safety would represent a(n) _____ factor and
advancement would represent a(n) _____ factor.
motivational, maintenance
maintenance, motivational
attribute, innovative
innovative, attribute
15. (TCO 8) A group of employees in an office who are fully responsible for all aspects of processing
claims at an insurance company is an example of which of the following team types?
Problem-solving team
Project team

Virtual team
Self-managed team
16. (TCO 8) During the _____ stage of a team's life cycle, team members agree on roles, ground rules,
and acceptable behavior when doing the work of the team.
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
17. (TCO 9) Which of the following is not part of a process control system?
Comparison of actual results with the standard
A means of measuring accomplishment
A standard or goal
A backup process
18. (TCO 9) Process management consists of which of the following?
Design, management, and improvement
Design, control, and improvement
Design, control, and standardization
Analysis, control, and improvement
19. (TCO 10) During Final Inspection at a shirt manufacturer, more than 1,500 shirts were found with
incorrect buttons. The manufacturer sold the shirts at 70 percent of the normal price to a retailer who
specializes in factory seconds. The revenue lost by the manufacturer is considered which of the
following?
An internal failure cost
An appraisal cost
An external failure cost
A prevention cost
20. (TCO 10) The additional labor that is used when a machined part is returned to the drilling department
for rework to correct a quality problem is considered which of the following?
A prevention cost
An appraisal cost
An internal failure cost
An external failure cost
21. (TCO 11) Which of the following is NOT a principle of statistical thinking as a philosophy of learning
and action?
All work occurs in a system of interconnected processes.
Variation exists in all processes.
All variation can be traced to human error.
Understanding and reducing variation are keys to success.
22. (TCO 11) Which of the following tools is most useful for viewing the variability of a quality
characteristic?
Affinity diagram
Control chart
Checklist
Fishbone diagram

23. (TCO 12) Everything else remaining constant, when the sample size _____, sampling error decreases.
increases
decreases
stays constant
None of the above
24. (TCO 12) Determine the upper control limit (UCL) and lower control limit (LCL) for an X-Bar chart
if six samples of subgroup size 3 (n=3) were collected, the mean of the sample averages is 4.7, and the
mean of the sample ranges is 0.35. Determine the upper control limit (UCL) and lower control limit
(LCL) for an X-Bar chart.
CHART
UCL = 4.86905, LCL = 4.53095
UCL = 4.90195, LCL = 4.49805
UCL = 4.72250, LCL = 4.14350
UCL = 5.05805, LCL = 4.34195
25. (TCO 12) Determine the upper control limit (UCL) and lower control limit (LCL) for an R-chart if
twenty samples of subgroup size 5 (n=5) were collected for a variable measurement and the mean of the
sample ranges equals 4.4.
UCL = 9.3016, LCL = 0.0000
UCL = 1.4696, LCL = 0.0000
UCL = 11.3256, LCL = 0.0000
UCL = 8.8176, LCL = 0.0000
26. (TCO 13) Which of the following are the phases of the Six Sigma problem solving approach?
Define, Monitor, Analyze, Improve, Confirm
Define, Monitor, Analyze, Invest, Control
Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control
Define, Measure, Analyze, Invest, Control
27. (TCO 14) Current research suggests leadership will have to change from: (Points : 6)
Process to position
Focus throughout the organization to a focus at the top
Power resulting from position to power resulting from knowledge
Feeling and emotional to logical and rational
1. (TCO 3) Answer the following questions concerning ISO 9000:
1. Discuss the basic premise behind ISO 9000.
2. Discuss three of the five objectives of ISO 9000.
3. Discuss the three documents that make up ISO 9000.
2. (TCO 14) Answer the following questions concerning cultural change and the workforce:
1. Discuss three of the five behaviors that Juran and others suggest are needed to develop quality
cultural change.
2. Discuss ownership at the workforce level and why it is important to the implementation of TQM.
3. Discuss how increased ownership requires increased sharing of information.

3. (TCO 4) Deming's Profound Knowledge consists of four elements. Answer the following three parts
relating to the "variation" element of Deming's Profound Knowledge. Your discussion should relate to
this element of Deming's Profound Knowledge and not variation in general.
1. Explain how a quincunx can be used to explain variation.
2. Why is understanding variation important, and what do we need to do about it?
3. What tools do we need to use to understand variation, and why is using these tools important to
our decision-making process?