List of national quality awards

This list of national quality awards is an index to articles about

notable national awards for quality, typically associated with
business and manufacturing.

Background
A national quality award is
typically part of a larger
An EFQM Excellence Award from
effort by a government to
2012
make its country's
businesses more
competitive in the world
economy.[1] The awarding institutions are generally either
government departments or ministries[a] or not-for-profit
Ludwig-Erhard-Preis 2010
organizations with government ties.[b] In many countries, however,
the awarding institutions are consortia of businesses.[c] Candidate
companies compete in award-specific assessments of business quality and excellence criteria.[2] The
assessments are annual and firms who wish to be considered for the awards file applications with the
organization that conducts the competition in their home country. Competitors are evaluated by teams of
examiners who are volunteers in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and possibly elsewhere.
Several examiners separately evaluate company submissions against award criteria after which they meet to
discuss their findings and to agree on a consensus score. The highest scoring firms advance to the next
phase where examiners perform site visits to compare actual practices against those reported in the
company submission and finally, awards are given to companies whose practices best fulfill the criteria of
the award models.[3]

While each nation's awards programs only consider businesses within its national borders, there are two
notable exceptions: The EFQM Excellence Award is a transnational award open to businesses operating in
one or more European countries and the Deming Prize, which began as the Japan Quality Medal, became
the first (and as of 2014 the only) global quality award in 1984.[4]
The most widely recognized quality awards are the Deming Prize (the first of its kind) and the EFQM
Excellence and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards (due to their size).[5][6] The national quality
award phenomenon grew out of the Total Quality Management movement of the 1980s.[7]

Awards
National quality awards[8][9][10]
Name Region Country Administering organization Began

Australian Business
Oceania Australia SAI Global[d] 1988
Excellence Awards[11]
Belgian Business Flemish Quality Management
Europe Belgium 1990
Excellence Award[13] Center

Canada Awards for

Excellence
North America Canada Excellence Canada 1989[e]

China Quality Award[15] Asia China China Association for Quality 2001

Union of Japanese Scientists and

Deming Prize Asia Japan 1951
Engineers
Dubai Government Dubai Government Excellence
Middle East UAE 1997
Excellence Award Program

Dutch Quality
Europe Netherlands Instituut Nederland Kwaliteit 1990
Assessment[16]
EFQM Excellence Award Europe EFQM 1992

Egypt Government
Africa Egypt Ministry of Planning 2018
Excellence Award

Fiji Business Excellence National Training and Productivity

Awards
Oceania Fiji
Centre 1998[17]

ESPRIX Swiss Award for

Europe Switzerland Stiftung ESPRIX
Excellence[18]
Government Excellence Sheikh Khalifa Government
Middle East UAE 2009
Model Excellence Program

Indonesian Quality Award

Indonesian Quality Award[19] Asia Indonesia
Foundation

Iran National Quality Institute of Standards and

Asia Iran
Award[20] Industrial Research of Iran

National Quality and

Asia Israel Standards Institute of Israel 1989
Excellence Prize[21]
King Abdulaziz Quality Saudi Standards, Metrology and
Asia Saudi Arabia
Award[22] Quality Organization

King Abdullah II Award for

King Abdullah II Center for
Government Excellence Middle East Jordan 2006
Excellence
Award

Korean National Quality

Asia South Korea Korean Standards Association
Management Award[23]
de:Deutsche Gesellschaft für
de:Ludwig-Erhard-Preis
Europe Germany Qualität and Verein Deutscher 1997
(ILEP)
Ingenieure
Luxemburgish Award for
Europe Luxemburg MLQE 2004
Quality and Excellence[24]
Malcolm Baldrige National National Institute of Standards and
North America United States 1988
Quality Award Technology

Prime Minister Quality National Productivity

Asia Pakistan 2006
Award[25] Organization[26]
Center for Industrial
Philippine Quality Award Asia Philippines 1998
Competitiveness
Sekretariat Polskiej Nagrody
pl:Polska Nagroda Jakości Europe Poland 1995
Jakości

es:Premio Colombiano a la South es:Ministerio de Comercio,

Colombia 1992
Calidad de la Gestión America Industria y Turismo de Colombia

Premio Nacional a la South Fundación Premio Nacional a la

Argentina 1992[28]
Calidad[27] America Calidad

Premio Nacional a la South es:Confederación de la Producción

Chile
Calidad[29] America y del Comercio

pt:Prêmio Nacional da South pt:Fundação Nacional da

Brazil 1992
Qualidade America Qualidade
es:Premio Nacional de Instituto para el Fomento a la
North America Mexico 1990
Calidad Calidad Total

Premio Qualità Italia[30] Europe Italy Associazione Premio Qualità Italia 1997

es:Premios Príncipe Felipe es:Ministerio de Industria, Energía

Europe Spain 1993
a la Excelencia Empresarial y Turismo

Prime Minister's Quality

Asia Malaysia Prime Minister of Malaysia
Award[31]
Prix France Qualité Association France Qualité
Europe France 2000
Performance[32] Performance

Rajiv Gandhi National

Asia India Bureau of Indian Standards 1992
Quality Award

IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj IMC Chamber of Commerce &

Asia India 1997
National Quality Award Industry
Russian Government Secretariat of the Russian
Europe Russia 1997
Quality Award[33] Government Quality Award Board

Singapore Business
Asia Singapore SPRING Singapore 1995
Excellence Awards[34]

Thailand Productivity Institute

Thailand Quality Award[35] Asia Thailand 1996
(FTPI)
TÜSİAD-KalDer National Turkish Industrialists' and
Asia Turkey
Quality Awards[36] Businessmen's Association

UK Business Excellence
Europe United Kingdom British Quality Foundation 1994
Award[37]
SIQ Institutet för
Utmärkelsen Svensk
Europe Sweden Kvalitetsutveckling (http://www.siq. 1992
Kvalitet[38] se)

India 5000 Best MSME India 5000 Business Awards (http

Asia India 2016
Awards[39] s://india5000.com/)
See also
Category:Business and industry awards
Global Competitiveness Report
List of business and industry awards
Total quality management

Notes Executives of Home Credit receive a

"Certificate of Merit" for customer
a. For example, the Bureau of Indian Standards is part of service and quality from a
the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Vietnamese government official on
Distribution in India. behalf of Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn
b. For example, the Association France Qualité Dũng in 2014.[40]
Performance is affiliated with the Minister of the
Economy, Finances and Industry in France.
c. For example, the pt:Fundação Nacional da Qualidade was founded by 39 different private
and public organizations.
d. This award was administered by the not-for-profit organization Standards Australia until
2003, when parts of Standards Australia were spun off as a for-profit company.[12]
e. While the Canada Awards for Excellence were established in 1984, quality was not
awarded as a separate category until 1989.[14]

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External links
The Chartered Quality Institute's fact sheet on quality awards (https://web.archive.org/web/2
0160726090153/http://www.thecqi.org/Knowledge-Hub/Resources/Factsheets/Quality-awar
ds/)

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