1. Employee empowerment is an essential element of quality management, especially in services. From your own experience, cite instances where a service provider empowered its employee to go the extra mile to delight you. Then indicate an instance where the opposite happened.
2. You have been commissioned to create a local equivalent of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for your college's campus. The winner will receive free campus parking for one academic year. Prepare a list of criteria for use in deciding who on your campus is most worthy of this award. How would you propose that these factors be measured? Should they be?