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The Philippine Quality Award Program or PQA aims to encourage and engage the public and private organizations and stakeholders to strive for and attain performance excellence through the principles of Total Quality Management or TQM in the Philippines. It is the national quality award of the Philippines comparable to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

History
The Philippine Quality Award is the centerpiece program of the National Action Agenda for Productivity, the blueprint for the Philippines integrated approach to improve economy-wide productivity during the term of President Fidel V. Ramos in response to the growing challenges of globalization. It was created through Executive Order 448 on October 3, 1997. It was institutionalized on February 28, 2001 through the signing of Republic Act 9013, also known as the Philippine Quality Award Act. The PQA sets a standard of excellence to help Filipino organizations achieve world-class performance and serves as a "template" for competitiveness based on the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM).

Objectives
These are the three objectives of PQA;


 * 1) To promote standards in organizational performance comparable to those of leading business abroad, pursuant to the country's effort to be globally competitive;
 * 2) To establish a national system for assessing quality and productivity performance, thus providing local organizations regardless of size, sector and maturity with criteria and guidelines for self-assessment to guide their quality and productivity improvement efforts; and
 * 3) To recognize organizations in both the private and public sector which excel in quality management and overall organizational performance, thus providing Philippine industries with benchmarks and models to emulate.

Benefits
These are the benefits for the application of PQA:
 * 1) Objective assessment of organization’s strengths and opportunities for improvement.
 * 2) Recognition at an annual conference and public relations exposure.
 * 3) Accelerated change, growth and improvement in the organization.
 * 4) Opportunity to be part of the PQA recognized organizations.

The applicant must comply these criteria:
 * Management (45 pts.)
 * Planning (35 pts.)
 * Customer Focus (35 pts.)
 * Measurement and Data Management (35 pts.)
 * Workforce Focus (35 pts.)
 * Operations Focus (35 pts.)
 * Business Results (180 pts.)