This assignment focuses on learning about the Baldrige Excellence Framework. It requires studying and reporting on how the criteria for the Baldrige Excellence Framework can help organizations manage their process improvement. You can refer to the free content (you are not required to purchase any publications from the website or anywhere else) about the Malcolm Baldrige Excellence Framework that is available at http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/ and several other Internet resources. Please remember to cite all your sources of information in your response.

List the criteria in the Baldrige Excellence Framework. Depending on how you interpret the description, there are 6 to 9 criteria in the framework. Describe briefly how functional areas of accountancy, finance, human resource management, information systems, marketing, and operations management can contribute toward each of the Baldrige excellence criteria. Mention only the applicable function(s) for each Baldrige criterion.