page_title: New Zealand Organisation for Quality
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: New Zealand Organisation for Quality / History / Development
caption_attribution_description: English: The Square, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Image taken by me with a Nokia 6234 2MP mobile phone, from the PN City Council building.
context_page_description: The New Zealand Organisation for Quality, originally the New Zealand Organisation for Quality Assurance, is a non-partisan incorporated society dedicated to improving the quality of goods and services in New Zealand and providing leadership in the adoption of the principles of quality management and best practice.
  NZOQ was incorporated on 31 January 1978. The organisation is based in Palmerston North, with an additional support office in Auckland.
context_section_description: During the late 1970s, while quality education was being carried out by NZOQA on a regional basis, the Certificate of Quality Assurance was developed to cover different aspects of quality assurance as a more structured approach to quality education.
  In 1978, an initiative with the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology (NZIFST) led to the development of the Diploma in Food Quality Assurance at Massey University, and later the Diploma in Quality Assurance.
  NZOQA promoted quality assurance and the principles and practices of total quality management (TQM) to New Zealand businesses throughout the 1980s. New Zealand organisations at the time opted for ISO 9000 in preference to TQM, as ISO offered them international recognition and TQM was perceived to be too different from conventional management.
  NZOQA began to move away from its close association with Massey University when it held its first stand-alone conference in 1980. The organisation changed its name to the New Zealand Organisation for Quality in 1992, at which time it had more than 1000 members.
caption: The National Office of NZOQ is located on The Square, in the centre of Palmerston North
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