In master’s thesis the review of Lithuania’s and foreign authors’ theoretical and practical research of general quality management is presented, systematizing the conception of quality management, means, methods and models, the similarity and differences of social and private sectors. In this thesis, it’s tried to find out, how the quality management differs in organizations of social type and which problems arise, putting into practice the general quality management in these organizations. For this aim, the questionnaire was composed, adapting the criteria of SERVQUAL model, for the clients and workers of BI Klaipeda city center of children crisis, BI Klaipeda city center of social support, Klaipeda city service of children rights protection and Kaunas city center of children welfare “Pastoge”. During the research, it was found out, that organizations of social type differ by their activity’s nature, experience, clients’ characteristic, workers motivation, possibilities and view towards the quality. The set hypothesis, indicating, that in the organizations of social type, it’s striving to work, basing on conception of general quality management, was confirmed, but its application is not systematic.

Raktažodžiai: quality, management, servqual, service