December 2008 Issue
Salary Survey:
Seeing Green
Before trying to make heads or tails of the results of QP’s 22nd annual salary survey, read a statistical analysis of the 2007 and 2008 surveys, which reveals a modest bump in salaries in 2008 over last year.
by I. Elaine Allen
Salary Survey
Looking at the Numbers
The methodology behind taking mountains of survey data and turning it into meaningful information.
Visit our new Salary Survey index page.
View a PDF version of the entire survey.
Six Sigma
A DMAIC Makeover
Don’t wait for the second phase of this quality method to start measuring. Instead, collect data in the define phase to kick off an effective process improvement project.
Perspectives
In Crisis, Give Credit to Quality
While the U.S. financial industry relies heavily on numbers, its inability—or unwillingness—to calculate risk based on those numbers has led to the credit crisis in which the country is mired.
- Up Front
- Quality in the First Person
- Career Corner [Open Access]
- Standards Outlook
- Statistics Roundtable
- Measure For Measure
- 3.4 Per Million
- Back to Basics [Open Access]
- Volviendo a los Fundamentos
- One Good Idea [Open Access]
Three organizations have been named recipients of the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
For more information,
click here.
ASQ FD&C Northeast Pharmaceutical GMP/Quality Conference
Jan. 8 | Somerset, NJ
Call Robert Seltzer at 908-679-1287 or visit www.pdametro.org/meetevents.htm.
The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium
Jan. 26–29 | Fort Worth, TX
Call Fred Schenkelberg at 408-710-8248 or visit www.rams.org.
ASQ members exchange comments, suggestions, questions and ideas inspired by articles or letters in Quality Progress.
