Six Sigma is considered to be a methodology designed in order to not only advance projects but also deal with complicated problems taking all levels and all areas in the Organization into account. In addition to this, it is regarded as company esteem that is an idea dedicated to enhancing quality and encouraging improvement. However, what is of crucial importance is the fact that Six Sigma conception can be both apprehended and advocated by each member in the organization. For all people without any exception ranging from the Senior Management through all stakeholders to all employees in an organization, quality determines the greatest commitments. Each individual who works in the company, regardless of his position, should bear responsibility for its Quality and weaknesses too. As a consequence, all team of co-workers ought to develop full awareness of Six Sigma and its Quality approach as well. The execution can be easily defined as top down process, yet the chances so as to determine further improvements can be found everywhere and as a result they require bottom up manner so that the may enhance the potentials with a view to obtaining benefits offered by Six Sigma.
As far as the Six Sigma funtions in a Six Sigma Organization, together with quality management, are concerned, they provide employees with an individual pursuing of successful path and generate extra motivation in co-workers. Nevertheless, there is a great range of the roles and assignments associatiated with the levels in Six Sigma which have to be taken on. Those diverse levels are labelled with a term 'belt' and as regards its colour, alike Asian martial arts, it defines the degree.
Belts are divided into three categories, that is black-belt, green-belt and yellow-belt. The first level characterises managers who are capable of excellent comprehension of Six Sigma culture and managing Six Sigma project. The second type refers to junior quality managers who are able to understand Six Sigma concept and tools well and attend projects for raising quality in workplace. The last one relates to all employees that understand fundamental concept of quality, defects and variations and are broad-minded enough for changes in daily processes. It is also worth noticing that specific obligations can differ in every company due to the fact that those duties depend on company culture as well.
In addition to technicall skills, a numerous soft-skills in communication and people managements are also demanded with the aim of managing Six Sigma projects with long-term success. What is more, not only the Six Sigma experts but also Champions need to be directly engaged in the projects. Many times Senior Managers and Sponsors for Six Sigma projects are these champions, therefore they shoulder responsibility for carrying out assessment of risk and doing evaluations of rewards for every project. In addition to this tasks, they have to fulfil the need of accepting the required resources in order to accomplish the projects. Champions are of paramount importance due to the fact that they are liable for selecting the greatest projects. Futhermore, such people have fundamental significance in thriving implementation of Six Sigma within the company.