Published September 24, 2017, 10:00 PM By Melito Salazar Jr. The Philippine Quality Award Program is a global competitiveness template that aims to encourage and engage public and private organizations and other stakeholders to strive for and attain performance excellence. It is a national award program that recognizes achievements of public and private sector organizations in their journey towards performance excellence. It is the centerpiece program of the National Action Agenda for Productivity (NAAP), the blueprint for the country’s integrated approach to improve economy-wide productivity during the term of former President Fidel V. Ramos in response to the growing challenges of globalization.

Created through Executive Order 448 on October 3, 1997, on February 28, 2001, it was institutionalized through the signing of Republic Act (RA) 9013, the Philippine Quality Awards Act which sets a standard of excellence to help Filipino organizations achieve world-class performance based on the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM).

It is a national quality award comparable with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) of the US. (This award  was established by the US Congress in 1987 to raise awareness of quality management and recognize US companies that have implemented successful quality management systems. Awards can be given annually in six categories: Manufacturing, service, small business, education, healthcare and nonprofit. The award is named after the late Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, a proponent of quality management.)

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