Quality circles

management technique which divides workers into groups that share problems and try to find solutions

A Quality Circle is a volunteer group composed of workers, or even a group of students nowadays, who meet together to discuss workplace improvement, and make presentations to management with their ideas, especially relating to quality of output. Typical topics are improving safety, improving product design, and improvement in manufacturing process. This can not only improve the performance of any organisation, but also motivate and enrich the work life of employees. The ideal size of a quality circle is from 8 to 10 members.
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a management technique with its origin in Japanese industry, developed as a means of increasing productivity; groups of autonomous workers, responsible for their own output, meet together voluntarily to plan their work so that a better quality product results and so that the work of other autonomous groups further down the production line is not delayed.