Features of Quality Circles

1. It is a voluntary group of employees. Members join circle on their own. There is no pressure from management.
2. Size of a quality circle varies between six to ten. Members generally hail from a particular work area.
3. Members meet at periodic intervals to discuss quality related problems.
4. Each circle has its own agenda. It has its own terms of reference, selects its own problems and offers recommendations for solving them.
5. The quality circle, by its very nature, exists to identify, analyze and solve quality related problems.

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