EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 448
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 448 -
ESTABLISHING THE PHILIPPINE QUALITY AWARD AND CREATING THE PHILIPPINE
QUALITY AWARD COMMITTEE
WHEREAS,
the Philippines has adopted the National Action Agenda for Productivity
as a comprehensive strategy to sustain its economic growth, further
strengthen the global competitiveness of its products and services, and
accelerate its transformation into a Newly Industrialized Economy;
WHEREAS, there is a need to establish a national system of awards as a
specific strategy to promote quality excellence in private and public
sector organizations and provide a framework for assessing
organizational performance and recognizing quality excellence;
WHEREAS, award winners can serve as benchmarks and models of excellence
for other organizations to emulate, thereby building a culture of
continuous improvement in the country;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:
Section 1. Establishment of the Philippine Quality
Award. — The Philippine Quality Award (PQA) is hereby established to be
conferred annually to qualified organizations in the private and public
sectors which have demonstrated any of the four levels of performance,
namely:
a.
Platinum Award for Quality (Excellence Award)
The organization should have
demonstrated management excellence by the purposefulness with which it
continues to improve and build upon outstanding results and excellence
systems. It should serve as a national and global model.
b. Gold Award
for Quality (Mastery Award)
The organization should have
demonstrated, though its practices and achievements, superior results
clearly linked to robust management systems. It should exhibit
practices which other organizations can learn from and should serve as
a role model for other organizations in the Philippines.
c. Silver
Award for Quality (Proficiency Level)
The organization should have
demonstrated, through implementation of quality and productivity
management principles, significant progress in building sound and
notable processes. It should have a documented and solid approach to
system-level quality and productivity management and has been
implementing quality and productivity improvement plans and procedures.
d. Bronze
Award for Quality (Commitment Level)
The organization should have
demonstrated its serious commitment to the PQA as a catalyst for
improvement and a means of promoting competitive and managerial
excellence. It should have planted the seeds of quality and
productivity and is working towards reaping long term benefits of its
efforts.
Sec. 2. Objectives of the Award. — The Philippine
Quality Award, herein referred to as PQA, has three objectives:
a.
To promote standards on organizational performance comparable to those
of leading businesses abroad pursuant to the country’s effort to be
globally competitive;
b. To
establish a national system for assessing quality and productivity
performance, thus providing both private and public sectors with
criteria and guidelines for self-assessment to guide continuous
improvement efforts; and
c. To
recognize organizations which have achieved the highest level of
quality and business excellence, thus providing Philippine industries
with benchmarks and models to emulate.
Sec. 3. Creation of a Philippine Quality Award
Committee. — There is hereby created a Philippine Quality Award
Committee under the Philippine Council for Productivity to oversee the
PQA System to ensure the credibility of all aspects of the award
system, including the adequacy of the criteria and processes for
conferment of the awards, and to assess how well the award is serving
the national interest.
Sec. 4. Composition of the Committee. — The PQA
Committee shall be chaired by the Secretary of the Department of Trade
and Industry, with the President of the Development Academy of the
Philippines as Vice-Chair and the President of the Philippine Quality
and Productivity Movement as Co-Vice-Chair. The heads of the following
agencies/organizations shall serve as members of the Committee:
a.
Philippine Society for Quality Control;
b. Department of Budget and Management;
c. Industry Development Council;
d. Management Association of the Philippines;
e. National Wages and Productivity Commission; and
f. Philippine Association for Technological Education.
The Chairman of the National Wages and Productivity Commission shall
designate, as member representing the labor sector, a recognized labor
leader actively working in the area of quality management.
The Chairman of the Civil Service Commission shall be invited to
participate as member of the PQA Board.
Sec. 5. Functions of the Philippine Quality Award
Committee. — The PQA Committee shall have the following functions:
a.
Serve as the steering and policy-making body for the PQA;
b. Set up and
review the designation of the Award Administration including the
institutional structure and operational mechanisms of the PQA System;
c. Adopt a
system of public and private counterparting for the management of funds
during the initial years of the PQA implementation;
d. Contribute
the initial seed fund for the PQA and eventually establish an Endowment
Fund;
e. Advocate
legislative proposals including appropriations for the PQA;
f. Initiate
and coordinate the necessary activities for the successful
implementation of the PQA;
g. Set
guidelines and criteria for the evaluation of award applicants and the
selection of the awardee;
h. Plan and
implement appropriate awarding ceremonies;
i. Submit
regular reports to the President through the Philippine Council for
Productivity; and
j. Perform
other functions as may be deemed necessary and incidental to carry out
the objectives of this issuance.
Sec. 6. Scope of the Award. — The PQA shall be
conferred annually to qualified organizations following eligibility
categories:
a.
Private Sector Awards
Manufacturing Companies
Service Companies
Agricultural Producers
Small and Medium Enterprises
b. Public
Sector Awards
National Line Agencies
Government-Owned and Controlled
Corporations
Local Government Units
Sec. 7. Method of Selection. — Awardees shall be
selected using the following major criteria:
a.
Leadership
b. Information and Analysis
c. Strategic Planning
d. Human Resource Development and Management
e. Process Management
f. Business Results
g. Customer Focus and Satisfaction
Sec. 8. Implementing Agencies. — The following
agencies/offices are hereby designated the following tasks:
a.
The Award Manager shall be the Department of Trade and Industry. As
Award Manager, the DTI shall be responsible for the conduct of the
awards process. It shall validate and endorse to the President the list
of awardees selected by the Board of Judges.
b. The Award
Administrators shall be the Philippine Society for Quality Control for
the private sector and the Development Academy of the Philippines for
the public sector. The Award Administrators shall disseminate award
application and information materials, receive award applications and
provide secretarial services for the Team of Assessors.
c. The Team of
Assessors and the Board of Judges, the composition of which shall be
chosen by the PQA Committee, shall be a well-selected and specially
trained group of business and quality practitioners from industry,
academe and government. The Team of Assessors shall evaluate award
applications and prepare feedback reports. The Board of Judges shall
review and recommend award recipients to the PQA Committee.
Sec. 9. Organization of a Management Committee. —
In the performance of its duties and responsibilities, the PQA
Committee shall organize a Management Committee to serve as the
implementing arm as well as administrative secretariat of the Committee.
The PQA Committee shall invite other organizations to undertake
technical work and mobilize public support for the PQA, as may be
necessary.
Sec. 10. Funding. — A seed money of one million
pesos (P1M) shall be charged to the budget of the Department of Trade
and Industry. Member organizations of the PQA Committee shall
contribute additional funds necessary for the attainment of the
objectives of this issuance. Assistance from government and the private
sector shall be solicited to establish an Endowment Fund for the PQA
System. The PQA Committee shall be responsible for creating a
Foundation which shall manage the Endowment Fund.
Sec. 11. Trophy Design. — The PQA trophy shall
bear the Presidential Seal and the Logo of the Philippine Quality
Award. The PQA Committee shall prescribe the design specifications of
the trophy.
Sec. 12. Conferment of the Awards. — The Awards
shall be conferred by the President of the Philippines in appropriate
ceremonies for this purpose.
Sec. 13. Implementing Guidelines. — The Department
of Trade and Industry shall issue the necessary guidelines for the
effective implementation of this Executive Order.
Sec. 14. Effectivity. — This Executive Order shall
take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 3rd day of October in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Ninety-Seven.
chanrobles virtual law library
Back to Main
chan
robles virtual law library
Since 19.07.98.