ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025-2026.
,1. What is a challenge associated with assessing service quality? ANSWER Outcome
defects are not easy to measure.
2. Which Six Sigma step requires a firm to create goals, measures, and action
plans for projects to identify improvements that will make a significant impact
on profitability and achieve strategic objectives? ANSWER Align
3. Why would a quality manager use a flowchart in the production process?
ANSWER To identify the relationships between functions
4. Which role do employees play as stakeholders in total quality management
operations? ANSWER They aim to create customer satisfaction.
5. Which cost is associated with a firm's investment to achieve superior perfor-
mance through ongoing process improvements? ANSWER Quality assurance cost
6. Which approach does a firm use when it buys raw materials from suppliers
in various locations, manufactures consumer products in Asia, and then ships
the finished products to its distribution centers in the United States? ANSWER
Global supply chain
7. A company develops a product that is highly tailored to meet certain cus-
tomer needs.
How has the quality of design for the selected product been applied? ANSWER The
product has specific characteristics designed into it.
, 8. An investment bank wants to launch a new financial service for a specific
income group using the standard service design process.
What is the expected deliverable of the service specification stage? ANSWER
Defining the design requirements of the financial service
9. To improve quality standards, a manufacturing unit uses a statistical process
control chart with one standard deviation control limit to track the vibration
levels of a factory machine.
What is a characteristic of this control chart? ANSWER It will be sensitive to small changes in
machine vibration.