Quality management and job quality
Subtitle: how the ISO 9001 Standard for quality management systems affects employees and employers
By: David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
Contributors: Toffel, Michael W.; Harvard Business School
Edition: Rev.
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 09-018; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 09-018.
Publisher: Harvard Business School]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Description: Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard affects organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to examine its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a matched control group of non-adopters. Among surviving employers, ISO adopters realized higher rates of growth of sales, employment, payroll, and average annual earnings. Injury rates also declined slightly at ISO 9001 adopters, although total injury costs did not. These results have implications for organizational theory, managers, and public policy.
Notes: "August 2008, revised July 2009"--Publisher's web site.

Includes bibliographical references.