The Community Quality Page

These are articles submitted by Ned Hamson, editor of The Journal for Quality and Participation. They deal with the application of Total Quality Management (TQM) principles in the building of better communities. Recently added to this page are two articles on using the Search Conference process to create/improve communities and one on the Participative Design process (a process to design self-organizing and self-managing democratic work systems.

Creating Quality Community - by Carole J. Schwinn and David R. Schwinn.
Finding community at work - by Peter Block.
Your community wants you - by Darcy Hitchcock.
Schools of Quality: an experiment in cooperation - by John Leuenberger.
To the seventh generation - by Denzil Verardo.
Rebuilding America's sense of Community - by John W. Gardner.
Creating community out of chaos and uncertainty begins with asking the right questions... - by Merrelyn Emery.
Does the search conference deliver on its promise? - by Frank Heckman.
Instead of constantly trying to adapt to change... Why not change to being adaptive? - by Frank Heckman.
What is a Search Conference? - by Steve Cabana.

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