Overview
For this assignment, you will analyze the quality management practices and location decisions of a prominent organization in Saudi Arabia. Your chosen organization should have a significant presence in the country and operate in a sector important to the Saudi Arabian economy.
Quality Management Practices
- Trace the historical development of quality management practices within the organization, highlighting key milestones and changes over time. How has the organization's approach to quality management evolved in response to changing market conditions, technological advancements, and regulatory requirements?
- Identify the various costs associated with quality management within the organization, including prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure costs.
Location Decisions
- Analyze the organization's approach to location decisions, including the factors it considers and the methods it uses to evaluate potential locations.
- Explain the factor rating and center of gravity methods used by the organization in its location decision-making process. Assess the organization's use of these methods and provide recommendations for improving its location decision-making process.
- Defend or critic the organization's location decisions based on the impact on its overall performance, including its market share, profitability, and competitive advantage.
Directions:
- Your assignment is required to be five to six pages in length, which does not include the title page and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
- Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. Use the Saudi Digital Library to find your resources.
- Formatted according to APA 7th edition and Saudi Electronic University writing standards.
- It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments into Turnitin prior to submitting them to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment into the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin – Student Guide for step-by-step instructions.
Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.
CT Rubric
Structural Requirements for Module 9: Critical Thinking Assignment (100 points)
You must use the following section headers in bold in order below. All CT assignment should be at least 5 (five) full pages in length (excluding references, section headers & coversheets). Use double line spacing with size 12 Times New Roman font. Include page numbers at the bottom.
•Section 1- Quality Management Practices
- Section 1a- History & Evolution of Quality Management Practices- In this section address the following in order:
- Trace the historical development of quality management practices within the organization, highlighting key milestones and changes over time.
- How has the organization's approach to quality management evolved in response to changing market conditions, technological advancements, and regulatory requirements?
- Section 1b- Quality Management Costs- In this section address the following:
- Identify the various costs associated with quality management within the organization, including prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure costs.
•Section 2- Location Decisions
- Section 2a- Approach to Location Decisions & Evaluation Factors
- Analyze the organization's approach to location decisions
- Discuss the factors it considers and the methods it uses to evaluate potential locations.
- Section 2b- Factor Rating & Center of Gravity Methods
- Explain the factor rating and center of gravity methods used by the organization in its location decision-making process. Assess the organization's use of these methods and provide recommendations for improving its location decision-making process.
- Section 2c- My Evaluation of Location Impact
- Defend or critic the organization's location decisions based on the impact on its overall performance, including its market share, profitability, and competitive advantage.
•References- on separate page include the following for maximum points
–Stevenson (2021) textbook
–3 additional scholarly references