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In Search of a Quality Culture: The Awkward Truths of an Indeterminate Maxim

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  • Peter J. Wells

    (Bucharest Professional Training College, Bucharest, Romania)

  • Diana Florea

    (“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania)

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The paper explores the evolutions and realities of institutional “Quality Culture” (QC) and unpicks blurred definitions of QC that are to determine whether it has a valid voice in the modern quality assurance vernacular. The authors question whether QC is a practical and achievable goal, or if it is little less than a theoretical conceptual buzz-term that ignores the realities of existing impregnable structures or individual malaise barring real progress towards a process of quality enhancement. It queries whether a QC is equally achievable in the private sector and public sectors. Taking a tertiary educational institution and a cultural institution (opera company) as examples, the authors demonstrate how a culture of quality can be bread via a process that is at once both systematic and organic, individual and inclusive, guided yet self-monitored.

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  • Peter J. Wells & Diana Florea, 2014. "In Search of a Quality Culture: The Awkward Truths of an Indeterminate Maxim," Management of Sustainable Development, Sciendo, vol. 6(1), pages 1-6, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:msudev:v:6:y:2014:i:1:p:6:n:7
    DOI: 10.2478/msd-2014-0007
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    1. Philippe Agid & Jean-Claude Tarondeau, 2010. "The Management of Opera," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-0-230-29927-6, October.
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