8.16 How Should the Quality-Control Component Be Structured?
After deciding what quality-control work is to be decentralized to other organizational components, the next task is the internal structuring of the quality-control function itself. There are many alternatives for structuring the quality-control component, depending upon the particular situations faced by a company. A few of the alternate ways of structuring the quality-control function are discussed in this section. When such alternatives are being chosen, certain criteria need first to be considered. A few of the more important of these criteria are the following: