Resources and information

PUBLICATIONS

Journals (refereed, international)

(1)
 Journal of Applied Statistics (formerly BIAS) - Founder and Editor since 1974.
(2)
 The Statistician (Journal of the Institute of Statisticians) - Editor (1978 -1985).
(3)
 The Statistician (Special Issue) - Editor (1985-1988).
(4)
 Royal Statistical Society Journal Series C - Member of the Editorial Board (1981-1987).
(5)
 Total Quality Management - Founder and Editor since 1990.
(6)
 Member of many other international journal editorial boards.

Books

(1)
 "100 - Statistical Tests", (1993), SAGE Publications Ltd., London.
(2)
 "Total Quality Management: A Systematic Approach", (1993), Carfax Publishing Co., Oxford, UK. paperback by Productivity Press, India, 1995,
(3)
 "Statistics and Images", (1993), Carfax Publishing Co. Oxford, UK.
(4)
 "The Quality Journey", (1994), Carfax Publishing Co., Oxford, UK., paperback by Productivity Press, India 1995
(5)
 "Total Quality Management", (1995), Proceedings of the 1st World Congress, Chapman and Hall, UK.
(6)
 "100 Methods for Total Quality Management", (1995), Sage Publications Ltd., London.
(7)
 TQM in Action (1996), proceedings of the second Sheffield Conference, Chapman Hall, UK.
(8)
 Fundamentals for Total Quality Management, (1998), (with J. Dahlgaard K. Kristensen Professor of Applied Statistics), Chapman and Hall, UK.
(9)

Total Quality Management - Myth or Miracle (2001) Kingston Press U.K.
(10)
 Supply Chain Management - Excellence (2001) Kingston Press U.K. (with Hong Shi Ho)
(11)
 Business Excellence in Higher Education (2001) Kingston Press, U.K. (with Abdul Malek)
(12)
 Measuring Business Excellence - Routledge, UK
(13)
Business Excellence in Banking - (2003), Wisdom House Publications Ltd. UK (with Wong Yuk Lan)
(14)
Statistical Process Control: A New Approach - (2003) Wisdom House Publications Ltd. UK (with Osama Hasan Amil)
(15)
Business Excellence in the Hotel Industry - (2003) Wisdom House Publications Ltd. UK (with C.K. Ziu)

Prof. Kanji's Technical and Proffesional and Other Activities

Professional Activities

(1)
 A fellow of the American Society for Quality (A.S.Q.) (1998).
(2)
 An Academian of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ).
(3)
 An elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
(4)
 Vice-chair of ASQ's International Chapter.
(5)
 Appointed to act as a technical expert for the development of the European Customer Satisfaction Index.
(6)
 Consultancy work in Statistics and Quality Management include UNIDO, UNDP, Ministry of Defence (UK), British Steel, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive, British Telecom, South Yorkshire Police and the Indian Government's Ministry of Telecommunication etc.
(7)
 Organised 9th World Congress for TQM at Sheffield.
(8)
 Have supervised many MPhil and PhD students in the area of Total Quality Management and applied Statistics and acted as an external examiner for over 40 MPhil/PhD students.
(9)
 President The European Society for Organisational Excellence (ESOE)
(10)
 President - International Foundation for Customer Focus (IFCF)
(11)
 Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Statistical Society (Sheffield Group)
(12)
 Vice-Chairman of the Industrial Application Section Committee, Royal Statistical Society, London (1977-78)
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 Chairman of the Industrial Application Section Committee, Royal Statistical Society, London (1978-80)
(14)
 Member of the Journals Committee, Royal Statistical Society,
(15)
 London Member of the President's Nomination Committee, Royal Statistical Society, London.
(16)
 Member of the Programme Committee, Royal Statistical Society,London
(17)
 Member of the Council, Royal Statistical Society
(18)
 Member of the Council, Institute of Statisticians
(19)
 Member of the Local Group Co-ordination Committee, Royal Statistical Society, London
(20)
 Member of IOS Publication Committee
(21)
 Member of the Editorial Board of the RSS Journal "Series C"
(22)
 Member of CNAA Physical Science Research Degree Sub-Committee

 

Teaching and Other Responsibilities

In charge of Honours BSM Statistics course (Sheffield University)

Statistical Laboratory Tutor (Sheffield City Polytechnic)

Industrial Training Tutor for BSc Applied Statistics (Sheffield City Polytechnic)

Project Co-ordinator for BSc Applied Statistics (Sheffield City Polytechnic)

Liaison Tutor to the Department of Urban and Regional Studies (Sheffield City Polytechnic)

Subject Leader in Statistics (Sheffield City Polytechnic)

Course Leader of BSc Applied Statistics (Sheffield City Polytechnic)

Head of the Department of Applied Statistics

Head of Survey and Statistical Research Centre

Director of Management Sciences Research Centre

Post Graduate Research Tutor

As the Head of Quality I have to deal with all the quality issues of the school, chair quality and validation sub-committee, and prepare yearly quality review for the school.

Member of BTEC Computing and Information Systems Board

Member of the BEC/TEC Committee for Mathematics & Statistics, London

Member of the CNAA Mathematical Sciences Board

Member of IOS Overseas Committee

Member of ASLIP

 

Publications

(1)
 "Socio-economic condition of the students of Patna University", (1960). MSc dissertation, Patna University, Patna, India.
(2)
 "The role of the Statistical Laboratory in the Teaching of Statistics", G.K. Kanji, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, (1974), Vol. 5, pp 53-57.
(3)
 "A Preliminary Study of Residential Prices in Sheffield", G.K. Kanji and W. Lean, BIAS, Vol 1, (1974), pp 26-31.
(4)
 "Analysis of the Relative Importance of some Factors affecting House Prices in a Local Market in 1970", G.K. Kanji, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, (1975), Vol 6, No 3, pp 277-82.
(5)
 "Robustness of Power in Analysis of Variance", G.K. Kanji, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, (1975), Vol 4, pp 19-30.
(6)
 "Sensitivity of the Power in Analysis of Variance to the Departures from the Inbuilt Assumptions", G.K. Kanji, The Statistician, (1976), Vol 25, No 1, pp 43-48.
(7)
 "Effect of Non-normality on the Power in Analysis of Variance: a Simulation Study", G.K. Kanji, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, (1976), Vol 7, pp 155-160.
(8)
 "Permutation Theory in the Study of Robustness of Power in the Analysis of Variance", G.K. Kanji, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, (1976), Vol 7, No 4, pp 401-405.
(9)
 "Statistical Ethics", H. Goldstein and G.K. Kanji, BIAS, (1977), Vol 4, No 1, pp 18-23.
(10)
 "Power Aspects of Analysis of Variance in Random Effects Model: A Simulation Study", G.K. Kanji, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, (1977), Vol 8, No 3, pp 293-297.
(11)
 "Power Aspects of Analysis of Variance in Various Models", (1978), PhD Thesis, Sheffield City Polytechnic.
(12)
 The Role of Projects in Statistical Education", G.K. Kanji, The Statistician, (1978), Vol 28, No 1, pp 19-27.
(13)
 "Power Aspect of Analysis of Variance in Fixed Effect Model One-way Classification", G.K. Kanji, The Australian Journal of Statistics, (1979), Vol 21, No 1, pp 36-44.
(14)
 "Generalised Incomplete Beta Distribution and its Application", G.K. Kanji in contributed papers, 42nd session of ISI, Manila, (1979), pp 291-294.
(15)
 "Bulletin in Applied Statistics", G.K. Kanji, Encyclopaedia of Statistical Sciences, (1981), Vol 1, pp 325-327.
(16)
 "The Role of Professional Experience in Statistical Education", G.K. Kanji and J.D. Jones, The Statistician, (1980), Vol 29, No. 3.
(17)
 "The Collection and Use of Sample Data on Public Transport Demand", G. Cockayne, G.K. Kanji and W. Tyson, BIAS, (1981), Vol 8, No 1, pp 91-108.
(18)
 "Sequential Analysis for Angular Data", R.J. Gadsden and G.K. Kanji, The Statistician, (1981), Vol 30, No 2.
(19)
 "History of the Development of Statistics in India", G.K. Kanji, BIAS, (1981), Vol 8, No 2.
(20)
 "A Degree in Applied Statistics", G.K. Kanji and W.G. Gilchrist, (1981), The Statistician, Vol 30, No 3.
(21)
 "Logit Model to Assess the Environmental Impacts caused by Bus Services", G.K. Kanji, The Statistician, (1981), Vol 30, No 4, pp 255-261.
(22)
 "Sequential Analysis applied to Circular Data", (1982), R.J. Gadsden and G.K. Kanji, Communication in Statistics Part C, Vol 1, No 4, pp 305-314.
(23)
 "Practicals, Case Studies, Projects and Professional Experience. Some Methods of Developing Skills among Budding Statisticians", (1982), G.K. Kanji, in Proceedings of First International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ISI) Sheffield, (1982), Vol 2, pp 671-684.
(24)
 "Analysis of Clay Strata Orientation", R.J. Gadsden and G.K. Kanji, The Statistician, (1982), Vol 32, No 3, pp 289-296.
(25)
 "Further Investigation of Robustness of Power in the Analysis of Variance", G.K. Kanji and C.K. Liu, The Statistician, (1983), Vol 32, No 4, pp 425-431.
(26)
 "On the Use of Minimum Chi-square Estimation", R.R. Harris and G.K. Kanji, The Statistician, (1983), Vol 32, No 4, pp 379-394.
(27)
 "Power Aspects of Split-Plot Designs", G.K. Kanji and C.K. Liu, The Statistician, (1984), Vol 33, No 3, pp 301.
(28)
 "A Mixture Model for Wind Shear Data", G.K. Kanji, Journal of Applied Statistics, (1985), 12, pp 49-58.
(29)
 "Degree with a Difference", G.K. Kanji, In proceedings of Concordia Conference on Applied Statistics, Marcel Dekker Inc, (1985).
(30)
 "Some Uses of Minimum Chi-square Methods", In contributed papers 45th session of ISI, Amsterdam, (1985), Book 1, pp 3-4.
(31)
 "The Importance of Projects in Statistical Education", proceedings of ASLIP conference, 5 June (1985), Newcastle, pp 30-35.
(32)
 "Analysis of Variance for Circular Data", (Joint with D. Harrison and R.J. Gadsden), (1986), Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol 13, No 2, pp 123-138.
(33)
 "All Models are Wrong but Some are Useful", The Statistician, (1986), Vol 35, No 2, pp 95.
(34)
 "The Challenge of Computers in Today's Statistical Teaching", (1987), (Joint with R.R. Harris), In proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Victoria, Canada.
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 "The Challenge of Statistical Training, (1987), (with R.R. Harris), In proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Victoria, Canada.
(36)
 "Analysis of Variance for Angular Data" (with D. Harrison), (1987), Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol 15, No 2, pp 197-223.
(37)
 "Fitting Non-linear Model with Errors in both variables and its applications (with M. Singh), (1988), Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol 15, No 3, pp 267- 274.
(38)
 "Quality Control is the Way of Thinking of Quality Assurance", (1990), (Joint with K. Searstone), Total Quality Management, Vol 1, No 2, pp 259-267.
(39)
 "Total Quality Management: the second industrial revolution", (1990), Total Quality Management, Vol 1, No 1, pp 3-12.
(40)
 "Application of the Characterization Theory to the Mixture Model", (with S. Kapoor), (1990), Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol 17, No 2, pp 263-270.
(41)
 "A Comparative Study of Quality Control Methods and Principles in Japan, Korea and Denmark", (with Dahlgaard & Kristensen), (1990), Total Quality Management, Vol 1, No 1, pp 115-132.
(42)
 "Total Quality Management: Myth or Miracle?", (1990), Total Quality Management, Vol 1, No 2, pp 163-167.
(43)
 "Implementation of Total Quality Management", (with R. Baker), (1990), Total Quality Management, Vol 1, No 3, pp 375-389.
(44)
 "Quality Culture and Total Quality Management", (with Hildebrandt, Kristensen & Dahlgaard), (1991), Total Quality Management, Vol 2, No 1, pp 1-16.
(45)
 "Education, Training, Research and Consultancy - The Way Forward for Total Quality Management", (1991), Total Quality Management, Vol 2, No 3, pp 1-6.
(46)
 "A note on Inverse Estimation in Non-Linear Models", (with M. Singh and K.S. El-Bizri), (1992), Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol 19, No 2.
(47)
 "Total Quality Management as a Strategic Variable", (with J.J. Dahlgaard and K. Kristensen), (1992), Total Quality Management, Vol 3, No 1. * Referred papers and journals
(48)
 "Quality and Economic Development Project", (with J.J. Dahlgaard and K. Kristensen), (1992), Total Quality Management, Vol 3, No 1.
(49)
 "On Measurement of Customer Satisfaction", (with K. Kristensen and J.J. Dahlgaard), (1992), Total Quality Management, Vol 3, No 2.
(50)
 "Quality Cost and T.Q.M.", (with J.J. Dahlgaard and K. Kristensen), (1992), Total Quality Management, Vol 3, No 3.
(51)
 "Applications of Characterization Theory to Mixture Distributions", (with B. Fosam), (1994). Perisankhyan Samikkha, Vol 1, No 1, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(52)
 "Total Quality Management and Statistical Understanding", (1994), Total Quality Management, Vol 5, No 3, pp 105-114.
(53)
 "European Master in Total Quality Management" (1993) Total Management Vol 4, No 1, pp 91 - 97
(54)
 "Quality Motivation" (with K Kristensen and J J Dahlgaard) (1995) Total Quality Management Vol 6, No 4, pp 427 - 434
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 "Can Total Quality Management Help Innovation" (1996) Total Quality Management, Vol 7, No1, pp 3-9
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 "Quality Learning" - (1996) Total Quality Management Vol 7, No2, pp 147 - 151
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 "Implementation and pitfalls of Total Quality Management (1996) Total Quality Management, Vol 7, No3, pp 331 - 343
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 "Empowerment and Organizational Structure" (with H Juhl, K Kristensen, J. Dahlgaard) (1997), Total Quality Management, Vol 8, No 1, pp 103-111
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 The Implementation of Total Quality Management in the N.H.S: How to avoid failure (with U Nwabueze) (1997) Total Quality Management Vol no 5, pp 261-276
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 A Systems Management Approach for Business Process Re-engineering (with U Nwabueze) 1997, Total Quality Management, Vol 8, No 5, pp 277- 2
(61)
 Total Quality Culture (with H Yui) 1997, Total Quality Management, Vol 8, No 6, pp 427-438
(62)
 Providing Customer Satisfaction (1998) (with Gorst & Wallace) Total Quality Management, Vol, 9 Nos 4 & 5, pp 100-103
(63)
 Quality Culture in the Construction Industry (1998) (with Mr Wong) Total Quality Management Vol 9, Nos 4 & 5, pp 133-140
(64)
 Total Quality Management and Higher Education in Malaysia (1998) (with A M Tambi), Total Quality Management, Vol 9, Nos 4 & 5, pp
(65)
 Business Excellence through Partnership (1998) in proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Public & Private Sector Partnership Fostering Enterprise - published Sheffield Hallam University, edited by Montanheiro et al, ISBN 0863397883, pp 195-206
(66)
 Measurement of Business Excellence (1998) Total Quality Management Vol 9 No 7 pp 633-643
(67)
 T.Q.M. in U.S. Higher Education Institutions (with A M Tambi) (1999) "Best on Quality), I.A.Q. Book Service, Vol 10 (Wisconsin U.S.A., A.S.Q Quality Press)
(68)
 A Comparative Study of Quality Practice in Higher Education Institutions in United States and Malaysia (with A.M. Tambi & William Wallace) (1999), Total Quality Management Vol 10, No 3, pp. 357-371
(69)
 Total Quality Management in U.K. Higher Education Institutions (with A.M. Tambi) (1999), Total Quality Management, Vol 10, No 1, pp 129-153
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 Some consequences of J.I.T. - Results from a comparison between the Nordic countries and East Asia, (with Kristensen, Dahlgaard and Juhl) (1999), Total Quality Management, Vol 10, No 1, pp 61-71.
(71)
 Business Excellence Model for Supply Chain Management (1999) - Total Quality Management - Journal Vol 10, No 8 pp 1147-1168
(72)
 Business Excellence through customer satisfaction (2000) Total Quality Management - Vol 11 No 7, pp 979-998
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 Median Rankit Control Chart by Quantil Approach, (2000) Journal of applied statistics, Volume 27 No.6 pp757-770