TerraCycle Ltd management is keen on providing excellent quality products and services. They have asked you to examine how Service Quality and Total Quality Management could improve the quality of their Recycling Programmes. Produce a briefing paper examining the quality of the recycling/ reuse programmes offered by TerraCycle and evaluating the appropriateness of the two quality approaches for the company. Within your briefing paper, you should: Explain and differentiate between the two approaches (Service Quality and Total Quality Management). Provide an example from the recycling/ reuse programmes of how one of these two approaches is applied.  Explain the appropriateness of the approach taken, what it takes to do, what it should deliver and suggest how it could be improved following the selected approach.

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TerraCycle Ltd management is keen on providing excellent quality products and services. They have asked you to examine how Service Quality and Total Quality Management could improve the quality of their Recycling Programmes.

Produce a briefing paper examining the quality of the recycling/ reuse programmes offered by TerraCycle and evaluating the appropriateness of the two quality approaches for the company.

Within your briefing paper, you should:

  1. Explain and differentiate between the two approaches (Service Quality and Total Quality Management).
  2. Provide an example from the recycling/ reuse programmes of how one of these two approaches is applied. 
  3. Explain the appropriateness of the approach taken, what it takes to do, what it should deliver and suggest how it could be improved following the selected approach.
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