First we must have an understanding of just what the Baldridge Criteria is and where did it originate. Both public as well as private business organizations have been using a criterion that was developed for performance excellence by Malcolm Baldridge. It was founded in 1987 as an internal self-assessment to measure their organizations performance excellence against the nations standard criteria (Fisher, 2013).
The benefit of understanding the Baldridge Criteria when conducting a Homeland Security Assessment for an organization is that is quality criteria. On August 20, 1987 President Ronald Regan signed the Malcolm