Match the following activities with the Deming Cycle stages (1) Monitor, Measure and Review (2) Continual Improvement (3) Implement Initiatives (4) Plan for Improvement

This option maps Monitor, Measure and Review to Plan and Continual Improvement to Do, which inverts the logical PDCA sequence where checking follows doing.

This option places Implement Initiatives in Plan and Continual Improvement in Do, contradicting the cycle where implementation is the Do stage and improvement action is the Act stage.

In the PDCA Cycle, Plan corresponds to planning for improvement before any action is taken. Do corresponds to implementing the planned initiatives. Check corresponds to monitoring, measuring, and reviewing the results against the plan to see if objectives were met. Act corresponds to acting on those findings to drive continual improvement, embedding successful changes or adjusting the approach. Option C assigns 4-Plan, 3-Do, 1-Check, 2-Act, which correctly reflects this sequence.

This option assigns Continual Improvement to Plan, but improvement actions are taken in the Act stage after results have been checked, not at the planning stage.