JOSEP MOSES JURAN – THE FATHER OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Some years ago, I realized that many graduates of the Faculty of Electromechanics of Craiova, as it was called back then, were able to find a job in the quality management departments. It was a new domain for most people. The employers preferred young employees in this new domain, and, unfortunately, they were not taught about this domain during their academic studies. I proposed a new post-academic course and I had a lot of success. I consider this course has been successful because we had and we still have a lot of candidates. I also consider that the idea has been successful because this course has turned into a quality management (QM) programme which is still very attractive. Within this context I discovered the father of the quality management: Joseph Moses Juran, born in Romania