About the PQA Award

The Philippine Quality Award (PQA) is the highest level of national recognition for exemplary organizational performance. It aims to stimulate local companies and organizations to improve quality and productivity for the pride of recognition while obtaining a competitive edge and providing example to others. The PQA establishes guidelines and criteria that can be used by local organizations regardless of size, sector and maturity. It also provides specific guidance for globally-minded organizations that wish to learn how to manage for high quality by making available detailed information on how recipient organizations were able to change their cultures and achieve eminence. Thus, it promotes sharing of information and benchmarking of best practices and results among organizations pursuing quality improvement.

The PQA 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. It was created through Executive Order 448 on October 3, 1997 and on February 28, 2001 it was institutionalized through the signing of Republic Act 9013, also known as the Philippine Quality Award Act (See Implementing Rules and Regulations). 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). It is a national quality award comparable with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) of the US and those in Europe and Asia.

The PQA has three objectives, which are as follows:
1. To promote standards in organizational performance comparable to those of leading business abraod, 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.


	About the PQA

		The Philippine Quality Award (PQA) is the highest level of national recognition for exemplary organizational performance. It aims to stimulate local companies and organizations to improve quality and productivity for the pride of recognition while obtaining a competitive edge and providing example to others. The PQA establishes guidelines and criteria that can be used by local organizations regardless of size, sector and maturity. It also provides specific guidance for globally-minded organizations that wish to learn how to manage for high quality by making available detailed information on how recipient organizations were able to change their cultures and achieve eminence. Thus, it promotes sharing of information and benchmarking of best practices and results among organizations pursuing quality improvement. The PQA 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. It was created through Executive Order 448 on October 3, 1997 and on February 28, 2001 it was institutionalized through the signing of Republic Act 9013, also known as the Philippine Quality Award Act (See Implementing Rules and Regulations). 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). It is a national quality award comparable with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) of the US and those in Europe and Asia. The PQA has three objectives, which are as follows: 1. To promote standards in organizational performance comparable to those of leading business abraod, 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.

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