Re: Quality or Quality Assurance
My experience has been that there are many 'quality assurance' programmes which are mainly derived from the military requirements for contractors, such as NATO AQAP1 and 2, Mil-Std-9858A, MoD Def-Stan 05/21, Ford Q1, GM Targets for Excellence, etc.
Most of these were based on the idea that as long as there were documented procedures and that the organization followed them, there was a (good) chance that the product would be to the agreed specification. Rarely were 'management' involved - with the exception, perhaps, of the Quality manager.
The (recent) recognition that 'quality' is broadly about (external) customer satisfaction and (internally) not wasting resources getting the product to the customer and that these are aligned with business objectives, has seen a move away from systems of (heavy procedural) documentation, and more towards process management. This is, I believe, at the heart of the changes to not just terminology but also a philosophical/strategic realignment of quality systems as a management tool.