Quality Circle Movement

Abstract

As we have moved into the twenty first Century, we see the world as a global market for all the companies. The post liberalization economic scenario¹ has brought new challenges of corporate restructuring for the Indian companies.

With a view to bring quality culture and thereby to enhance productivity in the organizations, Quality Circle movement in India is fast catching up.

This activity has been successfully implemented in Japan; in fact, the phenomenal growth of the Japanese industry, and its high quality and high reliability products are largely due to quality circle's ability to impart high morale and team spirit in an organisation, culminating in the improved productivity.¹ This paper discusses how the Quality Circle movement in Grasim Industries has brought significant improvements in terms of quality, cost & productivity.