Course detail

Quality Systems in the Enterprise

FP-SskpKAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course focuses on the problems related to the quality management in industrial enterprises as well as in the companies providing services

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Fundamentals of organization and managerial functions of the company, understanding the importance of customers in a market economy.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Requirements for granting classified credit:
Written form. Classified credit
1. Active participation in seminars will be checked and evaluated by the teacher - max. 50 points.
2. Successful completion of the credit test - maximum score of 100 points.
The credit test consists of two theoretical open questions, the total time to elaborate answers for both questions is 20 minutes. Rated:
a) Correct and complete identification of a given problem - max 20 b for each question
b) Method and scope of problem solving with emphasis on its explanation - max. 30 b for each question.
The total number of points for the graded course-unit credit must be greater than 100 points, ie the sum of the points obtained for the exercise and the credit test.
Classified credit is classified according to the ECTS scale. Incorrect and illegible answers are considered unsatisfactory.
Control of results of independent work on specified tasks. Excused absence from seminars can be compensated for via additional condition set by the teacher, usually via elaboration of partial written task.

Aims

The main objective of the course is to provide students with the theoretical foundations and methodology necessary for the quality management in the company. Also dealt with is mastering of modern management approaches to and methods of quality management necessary for the TOP management.
Students will have a clear idea of modern approaches to the quality management in a company, including the most frequently used quality management systems, namely according to the standards ISO 9000, TQM and EFQM.

Study aids

See literature

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

HOWARTH, T. and D. GREENWOOD. Construction Quality Management. Principles and Practice. New York: Routledge. 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-68010-4.
Nenadál, Jaroslav a kol. Management kvality pro 21. století. Praha: Management Press, 2018. ISBN 978-80-726-1561-2. (CS)
Nenadál, Jaroslav. Systémy managementu kvality. Praha: Management Press, 2016. ISBN 978-80-726-1426-4. (CS)

Recommended reading

Nenadál, J. a kol. Moderní management jakosti. Principy, postupy, metody. Praha: Management Press, 2008. ISBN 80-7261-186-7.
ROSE, K. H. Project Quality Management. Why, What and How. J. Ross Publishing, Inc. 2014. ISBN 978-1-60427-102-7.
Veber, J. a kol. Řízení jakosti a ochrana spotřebitele. Praha: Grada, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-1782-1.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MGR-SRP-KS Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

16 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Consultations will be conducted as follows:
a) at the beginning of the organized training there will be an explanation of the difficult passages of the lesson, for further organized training the self-study. The basic teaching support will be the course textbooks,
b) further organized workshops will be reserved for student consultation. Students will be ready for consultation. These consultations will solve problems that the students did not understand.
If necessary, students can use the lecturer's faculty e-mail to negotiate an individual consultation date