Canada Awards for Excellence | |
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Awarded for | Recognizing Canadian businesses for excellence in applying the principles of Total Quality Management as embodied in Excellence Canada's Progressive Excellence Program |
Sponsored by | Excellence Canada |
Country | Canada |
First awarded | 1984 [Note 1] |
Website | www |
The Canada Awards for Excellence are the national quality awards of Canada. [2] [3] They are administered by Excellence Canada, a not-for-profit organization on behalf of the Governor General of Canada. [4] Industry Canada established the awards in 1984 [Note 1] as the Canadian Business Excellence Awards. The National Quality Institute (NQI) was spun off as a separate, self-sustaining entity to administer the awards in 1992 and became Excellence Canada in 2011. [5] While originally intended for profitmaking Canadian firms, the awards are now open to government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
As of 2014, there are eleven awards categories: [6]
As is typical for national quality awards, hopefuls complete a self-assessment [7] which is reviewed by volunteer judges ("verifiers") and high-scoring candidates receive a follow-up site visit for closer judging. [8] Based on the recommendations of the judges, a jury panel determines the awarding. [9] Additionally, judges prepare detailed feedback which each applicant can use as the basis of self-improvement projects.
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Total quality management (TQM) is an organization-wide effort to "install and make a permanent climate where employees continuously improve their ability to provide on-demand products and services that customers will find of particular value." Total emphasizes that departments in addition to production are obligated to improve their operations; management emphasizes that executives are obligated to actively manage quality through funding, training, staffing, and goal setting. While there is no widely agreed-upon approach, TQM efforts typically draw heavily on the previously developed tools and techniques of quality control. TQM received widespread attention during the late 1980s and early 1990s before being overshadowed by ISO 9000, Lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma.
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The Governor General of Canada is the Patron of the Canada Awards for Excellence...