Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes U.S. organizations in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence. The Baldrige Award is the highest[2] formal recognition of the performance excellence of both public and private U.S. organizations given by the President of the United States. It is administered by the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, which is based at and managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award | |
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Awarded for | Recognizing American organizations in all sectors of the economy for demonstrating performance excellence using the systems perspective and other core concepts and values of the Baldrige Excellence Framework; applicants are evaluated for the award against the criteria for performance excellence |
Sponsored by | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Country | United States |
First awarded | November 14, 1988; 35 years ago (1988-11-14)[1] |
Website | www |
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program and the associated award were established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 (Public Law 100–107). The program and award were named for Malcolm Baldrige, who served as United States Secretary of Commerce during the Reagan administration, from 1981 until Baldrige's 1987 death in a rodeo accident.[3] The first award was given November 13, 1988.[1] By 1991, The New York Times opinionated that the criteria should be broader and "tougher to win."[4] In 2010, the program's name was changed to the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.[5]
The award is not given for specific products or services.