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Management Audits The classic text now in its 3rd
edition that has influenced quality auditing and international standards, and
all associated certification schemes, training courses worldwide.
ISBN 0 9511739-0-1 Available
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Contents For organizations wanting to know about the “Process Approach”
to audits and quality programs, there can be no finer source as Allan Sayle
first developed this method in the 1970s. Also known as the “Task Element”
approach, thousands of auditors trained by Allan Sayle, or by this book have
used this approach saving their employers and clients literally millions of
dollars in avoidable costs. Worldwide, Allan Sayle’s methods are now the
standard way of conducting management audits in ISO 9001 and its various
derivative standards’ quality programs. As delegates to his seminars have
noted, his approach is clearly visible in the latest ISO 9000:2000 series and
similar standards such as TS-16949. Six Sigma and similar business improvement programs have used
and benefited from Allan Sayle’s work, described in this book. Management Audits takes the reader right through
the planning, preparation, performance, reporting and following-up of modern
management audits. Full of case stories and tips, it also contains a substantial
amount of material dealing with, inter alia: §
The “Task
Element” or “Process Approach” to auditing. §
Value-added
audits, (an application pioneered by Allan Sayle) §
Auditing
in Cyberspace. §
Just-in-time
programs. §
Project
audits. §
Safety and
Environmental auditing. §
Basics for
energy audits. §
Auditing
service providers. §
Auditing
for ISO 9001 based programs. §
Internal
and external audits. §
Supplier
evaluation, assessment and pre-award surveys. §
Auditing
for Continuous Improvement Programs. The book focuses on using management audits to reduce or
eliminate avoidable costs and improve business results, to make your
organization ever more competitive and meet the challenges of global
competition. It is intended as a no nonsense
practical guide for both the auditor and the auditee. It will be a valuable
information source to managers and management auditors and a handbook for
students of management. Businesses pursuing continuous improvement programs
will find the book almost indispensable. Some
reviews “This third
edition will be a best seller with those serious about improving their
business results and value of their audit programs. I heatedly recommend it,
the bedrock of management audits to help the beginner and refresh the
veteran.” Charles B. Robinson, Past Chairman Audit
Division, American Society for Quality Control. "The
most useful and informative reference on auditing available... should be read
by those who are new to auditing...and read or reread by those who are
experienced auditors... contains the most information available in a single
source …This is the definitive text." Book review by Terry Regel for the
American Society for Quality, published in its Vista magazine August 1998. Mr. Regel is
co-author of the book: "After the audit". “Exceptional
as a management educational text...based on time proven concepts and
practices...provides essential knowledge...a classic philosophy of auditing
for the purpose of improving business results...a welcome reprieve from the
concept of audits for the sole purpose of completing a certification
process.” Dr. Dan Fields, Professor of Quality
Technology, Eastern Michigan University. “My whole
auditing attitude is, in fact, made up of your philosophies. I have read your
book about a dozen times, each time I do I come out of it with a new idea to
try ...and with each new idea tried I come up with a better way of getting
what we want out of audits. There are so many ideas in there, it would take a
very long time to use them all!! That is why I don t get tired of reading
it.” N. Brzycki, Auditor and Audit Trainer,
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