(Essay; benefits of quality Sometimes a company, in its efforts to reduce costs, might also reduce quality.

a. What kinds of costs could an organization reduce that would almost au¬ tomatically lower product/service quality?

b. If quality improvements create cost reductions, why would cost reduc¬ tions not create quality improvements?

c. Are there instances in which cost reductions would create quality im¬ provements?

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