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Quality Tool Application Assignment Instructions

Review the assigned readings for your chosen organizational problem and choose 1 of the quality tools from below and apply your organizational problem (chosen in Module 1: Week 1).

1. Cause-and-effect diagram(also called Ishikawa or fishbone chart): Identifies many possible causes for an effect or problem and sorts ideas into useful categories.
2. Check sheet:A structured, prepared form for collecting and analyzing data; a generic tool that can be adapted for a wide variety of purposes.
3. Control charts:Graphs used to study how a process changes over time.
4. Histogram:The most commonly used graph for showing frequency distributions, or how often each different value in a set of data occurs.
5. Pareto chart:Shows on a bar graph which factors are more significant.
6. Scatter diagram:Graphs pairs of numerical data, one variable on each axis, to look for a relationship.
7. Stratification:A technique that separates data gathered from a variety of sources so that patterns can be seen (some lists replace “stratification” with “flowchart” or “run chart”)

The final submission must be approximately 200 words of a narrative description of how the tool has been applied. Current APA format must be used, and a title page and reference list must be included.