11. After that it was quality circles . 12. He is considered a key figure in the development of quality initiatives in Japan, particularly the quality circle . 13. Quality circles can help enrich the lives of workers or students and aid in creating harmony and high performance.14. Every section of each class from V to IX has a Quality Circle to benchmark their standard and goal. 15. A good first idea may be to start some type of quality circle with some " quality advocates ". 16. Quality circles would soon become very popular and form an important link in a company's Total Quality Management system.17. A'Quality Circle ', with teams of teachers and students, works on unearthing solutions to problems and identifying scope for further improvement. 18. Abrahamson argues that fashionable management discourse such as Quality Circles tends to follow a bell curve, possibly indicating a management fad. 19. Quality circles are an alternative to the dehumanizing concept of the division of labor, where workers or individuals are treated like robots.20. Don Dewar together with Wayne Ryker and Jeff Beardsley established quality circles in 1972 at the Lockheed Space Missile factory in California.