I need a response to another students paper, the original prompt was:
Topic: Deming’s Theory of Profound Knowledge
Describe Deming’s Theory of Profound Knowledge. How do the four elements of his theory relate to improving performance?
It needs to have a bible quote
William Edwards Deming is considered to be one of the twentieth centuries mos influential industrialists. He found his place in history during World War II and with his idea of pushing out quality before quantity. He endeavored to improve the quality of companies products as well as their leaders by initiating four “elements” into standard practice easy enough for any business to understand. The four elements were, and still are; 1) Appreciation for a system, that is, understanding how the business itself works, 2) Knowledge about variation. Deming felt that, ” Managers who do not understand variation frequently increase variation by their actions. Critical to this is understanding the two types of variation — Common cause which is variation from the system and Special cause which variation from outside the system 3) Theory of knowledge, because knowlegde and experience are two different things, and finally, 4) Knowledge of psychology in order to better understand the relationship between people and the work place.
Deming understood what it meant to “serve one another in love.” We can see this in the way he was so very concerned in quality over quantity. It is a lesson in servant hood, and an attitude we can all afford to adopt.