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TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT: FAD OR LEGITIMATE TOOL?

many definitions out there, however; such as continuous improvement, customer focus and employee involvement. Most TQM gurus also ...

The Transfer of TQM Practices from Japanese to US Companies

been conducive to increasing adoption and adoption in the US. By looking at the developments in Japan the similar pressures that f...

Total Quality Management for Adding Value to Stakeholders

This use of TQM in increasing company stakeholder value is discussed in a paper consisting of eighteen pages with actual case exam...

Ford Motor Co. and Total Quality Management

15 years ago that it was around 1981 that the change was visible at Ford. "The company has switched to a manufacturing philosophy...

Global Automobile Industry and Generational Changes

In eight pages this paper examines how the U.S. market has been changed since 1985 in terms of the American and Japanese auto indu...

Competitive Advantage and the Impact of Total Quality Management

In five pages this paper examines how organizational competitive advantage can be achieved through TQM. Four sources are cited in...

Management Style Differences

In three pages business management styles such as downsizing, Matrix, and TQM are discussed in terms of their differences. Five s...

Champion Inc. Total Quality Management and Reengineering

In five pages this paper discusses Champion in a consideration of TQM and information technology reengineering with management bei...

Implementing Total Quality Management

In twelve pages this paper discusses how businesses can implement TQM in terms of costs and benefits, course training, and needs a...

Modern Management, Change, Reconstruction and Deconstruction

In seven pages this paper examines the 20th century changes in business management theory and approaches with Total Quality Manage...

Small Hotel Case Study on Total Quality Management Implementation

In five pages and 2 parts this paper discusses the small hotel applicability of TQM and how its standards might be improved as a r...

Speech on Total Quality Management Departmental Introduction

In seven pages this paper examines how TQM can initiate change to a department as emphasized in this speech on change for company ...

Total Quality Management and the Contemporary School of Management

In six pages this paper discusses how TQM evolved and the assumptions that formed the contemporary management school with movement...

Middle Managers and TQM Implementation Implications

either business type or size. Future research could be limited to a particular SIC code for intra-industry comparisons between fi...

Xerox, Corning, and Total Quality Management

Xerox and Corning are examined from a TQM perspective in a paper consisting of ten pages. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliog...

Consumer Behavior Changes and Marketing Implications

In thirty three pages consumer behavior since the 1920s is examined along with the implications changes had upon marketing with Wo...

Managerial Development

In five pages the TQM management strategy is applied to a scenario for transforming doctors into managers with a community hospita...

Management Practices in Nursing Homes

In twenty pages this research paper discusses management practices as they pertain to nursing homes in a consideration of ideologi...

The Utilization of Total Quality Management

Problems sometimes crop up in the implementation of TQM and this paper focuses on those issues. The barriers that confront the pro...

Rogers, Ellis, and Erikson and 21st Century Business Psychology

This research paper of 8 pages considers how the business environment has been influenced by these psychologists. Included are El...

Business Process Reengineering and Total Quality Management Compared

In five pages BPR and TQM are compared in terms of their differences and similarities. Seven sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Auburn, AL and TQM

Andrea Jackson's 'Applying TQM principles to the finance department: the city of Auburn experience' is applied to this considerati...

Total Quality Management and Implementation Barriers

no matter what management says. Often, the companys managers are honest in their statements regarding their commitment to quality,...

CoastElectric Case Study Analysis

This electric company is one that is contained in Britain and is evaluated with the use of various issues such as TQM. This evalua...

Creating Operational Efficiency While Sustaining Competitive Advantages

was bought out by a competitor, due to the inefficient operations failing to create a profit (Anonymous, 2007). Other companies, s...

Total Quality Management and the Effects of Human Resources Management

middle of the 20th century (actually, following the end of World War II, when statistician William Deming took his "14 Points," in...

Customer Service Improvements and Total Quality Management

Assemble toppings 3 3 Prepare toppings 2 2 Load oven, set timer 1 1 (Bake pizza) 8 Unload oven, box pizza 1 1 Collect...

Product, Service, and Process Quality Management

could be corrected. Although it is hard to believe these days, such ideas were once considered wrong and were not used. Al...

Executive Briefing on the Concorde's 2000 Crash

Gagne, 1983; Lowe and Masseo, 1986 cited in Emery, Summers and Surak, 1996). It focuses the efforts of all members of an organizat...

HRM's Emergence

al, 1996). However, even with this it may be argued that there was still a level of control in the hands of the workers....