This list of national quality awards is an index to articles about notable national awards for quality, typically associated with business and manufacturing.
Background
A national quality award is typically part of a larger effort by a government to make its country's businesses more competitive in the world economy. The awarding institutions are generally either government departments or ministries or not-for-profit organizations with government ties. In many countries, however, the awarding institutions are consortia of businesses. Candidate companies compete in award-specific assessments of business quality and excellence criteria. The assessments are annual and firms who wish to be considered for the awards file applications with the organization that conducts the competition in their home country. Competitors are evaluated by teams of examiners who are volunteers in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and possibly elsewhere. Several examiners separately evaluate company submissions against award criteria after which they meet to discuss their findings and to agree on a consensus score. The highest scoring firms advance to the next phase where examiners perform site visits to compare actual practices against those reported in the company submission and finally, awards are given to companies whose practices best fulfill the criteria of the award models. Alt URL
While each nation's awards programs only consider businesses within its national borders, there are two notable exceptions: The EFQM Excellence Award is a transnational award open to businesses operating in one or more European countries and the Deming Prize, which began as the Japan Quality Medal, became the first (and as of 2014 the only) global quality award in 1984.
The most widely recognized quality awards are the Deming Prize (the first of its kind) and the EFQM Excellence and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards (due to their size). The national quality award phenomenon grew out of the Total Quality Management movement of the 1980s. Alt URL
Awards
+ National quality awards Name Region Country Administering organization Began Australian Business Excellence Awards Oceania Australia SAI Global 1988 Belgian Business Excellence Award Europe Belgium Flemish Quality Management Center 1990 Canada Awards for Excellence North America Canada Excellence Canada 1989 China Quality Award Asia China China Association for Quality 2001 Deming Prize Asia Japan Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers 1951Dubai Government Excellence AwardMiddle EastUAEDubai Government Excellence Program1997 Dutch Quality Assessment Europe Netherlands Instituut Nederland Kwaliteit 1990 EFQM Excellence Award EuropeEFQM 1992Egypt Government Excellence AwardAfricaEgyptMinistry of Planning2018Fiji Business Excellence AwardsOceaniaFijiNational Training and Productivity Centre1998 ESPRIX Swiss Award for Excellence Europe Switzerland Stiftung ESPRIX Government Excellence ModelMiddle EastUAESheikh Khalifa Government Excellence Program2009 Indonesian Quality Award Asia Indonesia Indonesian Quality Award Foundation Iran National Quality Award Asia Iran Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran National Quality and Excellence Prize Asia Israel Standards Institute of Israel 1989 King Abdulaziz Quality Award Asia Saudi Arabia Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization King Abdullah II Award for Government Excellence AwardMiddle EastJordanKing Abdullah II Center for Excellence2006 Korean National Quality Management Award Asia South Korea Korean Standards Association :de:Ludwig-Erhard-Preis (ILEP) Europe Germany :de:Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität and Verein Deutscher Ingenieure 1997 Luxembourgish Award for Quality and Excellence Europe Luxemburg MLQE 2004 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award North America United States National Institute of Standards and Technology 1988 Prime Minister Quality Award Asia Pakistan National Productivity Organization 2006 Philippine Quality Award Asia Philippines Center for Industrial Competitiveness 1998 :pl:Polska Nagroda Jakości Europe Poland Sekretariat Polskiej Nagrody Jakości 1995 :es:Premio Colombiano a la Calidad de la Gestión South America Colombia :es:Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo de Colombia 1992 Premio Nacional a la Calidad South America Argentina Fundación Premio Nacional a la Calidad 1992 Premio Nacional a la Calidad South America Chile :es:Confederación de la Producción y del Comercio :pt:Prêmio Nacional da Qualidade South America Brazil :pt:Fundação Nacional da Qualidade 1992 :es:Premio Nacional de Calidad North America Mexico Instituto para el Fomento a la Calidad Total 1990 Premio Qualità Italia Europe Italy Associazione Premio Qualità Italia 1997 :es:Premios Príncipe Felipe a la Excelencia Empresarial Europe Spain :es:Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo 1993 Prime Minister's Quality Award Asia Malaysia Prime Minister of Malaysia Prix France Qualité Performance Europe France Association France Qualité Performance 2000 Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award Asia India Bureau of Indian Standards 1992IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality AwardAsiaIndiaIMC Chamber of Commerce & Industry1997 Russian Government Quality Award Europe Russia Secretariat of the Russian Government Quality Award Board 1997 Singapore Business Excellence Awards Asia Singapore SPRING Singapore 1995 Thailand Quality Award Asia Thailand Thailand Productivity Institute (FTPI) 1996 TÜSİAD-KalDer National Quality Awards Asia Turkey Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association UK Business Excellence Award Europe United Kingdom British Quality Foundation 1994 Utmärkelsen Svensk Kvalitet Europe Sweden SIQ Institutet för Kvalitetsutveckling 1992 India 5000 Best MSME Awards Asia India India 5000 Business Awards 2016
See also :Category:Business and industry awards Global Competitiveness Report List of business and industry awards Total quality management
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References
External links The Chartered Quality Institute's fact sheet on quality awards