The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) is the most introduced model in Spanish hospitals. The main target of this model is the internal and external client's satisfaction. The model of strategic management Balanced Scorecard (BSC) facilitates the alignment between management and the mission and vision of hospitals. For this reason, we propose a model of integrated management: EFQ...

New Public Management (NPM) is based on the idea that public sector organisations can be made more effective by adopting management perspectives and methods more similar to those used in the private sector, but the economic and managerial rationality of NPM often conflicts with practitioner rationality, causing challenges in the implementation of NPM. Action research could be relevant for study...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts intellectual capital (IC) on firm’s performance. Using a sample 336 Czech firms, including 20 certified firms from European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model 2015 2019, current employed pooled regression test hypotheses. dummy variable and interaction terms are used relationship between components IC EFQM with ...

BACKGROUND Primary care teams are facing an increased need to develop quality programmes at local level. GPs must lead this process and promote a positive organizational culture if they want to achieve and maintain a continuous improvement of the service. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to test the applicability and reliability of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQ...

this study compares the impact of quality management tools on the performance of organisations utilising the iso 9001:2000 standard as a basis for a quality-management system and those utilising the eFQm model for this purpose. a survey is conducted among 107 experienced and independent quality-management assessors. the study finds that organisations with qualitymanagement systems based on the ...