TY - JOUR AB - Quality initiatives demand that management and staff share a mutual interest in improving the quality of customer service through continuous improvement. These demands are currently being pursued against a background of organizational restructuring, redundancy and pressures on staff to increase productivity that are inconsistent with promoting a shared interest in improving service quality. Argues that management needs to reflect on the consistency of its actions in relation to the underlying rational of quality initiatives. VL - 8 IS - 5 SN - 0954-478X DO - 10.1108/09544789610146051 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09544789610146051 AU - Knights David AU - McCabe Darren PY - 1996 Y1 - 1996/01/01 TI - “A bridge too far?”: consistent quality initiatives in financial services T2 - The TQM Magazine PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 51 EP - 55 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -