Development and comparison of quality award: based on existing quality awards

The quality award programmes are applied worldwide. The various quality awards are the criteria for measuring performance excellence. They represent the framework for high-performance management system. In this paper the authors intend to (i) develop a quality award model based on commonalities among criteria of existing quality awards, (ii) develop interdependencies at system/sub system level and (iii) use inheritance and interdependencies to evaluate a numerical index for the developed model using graph theoretic approach. The framework incorporates the critical factors of quality evolution, which further implied for TQM implementation.