The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes U.S.
organizations in the business, health care, education, and
nonprofit sectors for performance excellence. Seven categories that
make up the award criteria are:-
- Leadership- Examines how senior executives
guide the organization and how the organization addresses its
responsibilities to the public and practices good citizenship.
- Strategic planning- Examines how the
organization sets strategic directions and how it determines key
action plans.
- Customer focus- Examines how organisation
determine requirement and expectation of customers and market,
build relationship with customers, acquires, satisfy and retains
the customers.
- Measurement, analysis and knowledge management
- Examines the management, effective
use, analysis, and improvement of data and information to support
key organization processes and the organization’s performance
management system.
- Workforce focus- Examines how the organization
enables its workforce to develop its full potential and how the
workforce is aligned with the organization’s objectives.
- Process management- Examines aspects of how
key production/delivery and support processes are designed,
managed, and improved.
- Results- Examines the organization’s
performance and improvement in its key business areas: customer
satisfaction, financial and marketplace performance, human
resources, supplier and partner performance, operational
performance, and governance and social responsibility.