Quality Management in Starbucks: A Comprehensive Analysis

This report provides an analysis of Starbucks' quality management practices. It begins by examining the importance of self-assessment in maintaining health factors, improving services, and achieving customer benchmarks. The report then delves into the significance of communication and record-keeping in quality management, highlighting their benefits for guidelines, efficiency, and financial control. Furthermore, it outlines the stages of staff consultation, emphasizing the value of employee input in improving quality and addressing issues. The report references several sources to support its findings and provides a comprehensive overview of Starbucks' approach to quality management, emphasizing the importance of communication, record keeping, and staff involvement in achieving and maintaining high standards. It covers how Starbucks uses staff consultation to resolve issues and improve quality. It provides a roadmap of steps for staff consultation for improvement. The report emphasizes the importance of staff input throughout the process and concludes with a summary of the key takeaways.

QUALITY
MANAGEMENT
Starbucks

4.1 Self-assessment in Starbucks current “State of Health”.
 The sell assessment is done for maintaining the health factors.
 Considering the health factor will help to improve the services and product quality
 Less issues will be faced by the company from the society and other NGO's.
 Knowledge about the things can improve the design, knowledge and other factors in the
company.
 Company can achieve the benchmark of the customer.
 It also help to provide the competitive advantages to the company.

4.2 Importance of communication record keeping in quality
management
Starbucks implement quality schemes to ensure that their products and services are up to industry
standards. Communication and record keeping are very beneficial for the company.
Importance of communication in the organization are discussed below:
1. Quality
2. Guidelines
3. Information
4. Efficiency (Megan Mcardle, 2010 ).
Importance of record keeping in the organization are discussed below:
1. Accounting, Business records can be maintain and modified.
2. Liquidity can be control.
3. Future planning and strategies can be made.
4. Details like cash flow, profit and revenue of previous year can be easily accessed.
5. Financial details can be calculated.

4.3 Stages of staff consultation
 Starbucks uses the staff consultation to solve the issues which are faced by the employees.
 Successful changes and quality can be improved through employees only.
 Following are the stages:
1. Analysis stage:
Opinion from the staff must be taken(Chen, and Luo, 2014)
This will help to evaluate the areas where changes are required in the company.
2. Decision Stage:
They must also be included in the decision making process.
Reasonable budget should be set to cover the cost of the change.
3. Agreement and planning stage
Decision taken in the above stage must be implemented
Along with this everyone must be agree to those aspects.

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4. Implementation stage:
Getting the right people on board is a valuable task
Includes people with the right technical skills and other staff members.
5. Assessment stage:
Consulted about the effectiveness of the change.
Their feedback allows further changes or fixes to be made.
* So at every point in the process, staff consultation is a valuable input.

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