Total Quality Management Total Quality Management is a management approach that originated in the 1950 ’s and has steadily become more popular since the early 1980 ’s. Total Quality is a description of the culture‚ attitude and organization of a company that strives to provide customers with products and services that satisfy their needs. The culture requires quality in all aspects of the company ’s operations‚ with processes being done right the first time and defects and waste eradicated from
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TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT By- SANJAY KUMAR* TQM A SUSTAINED MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT TO QUALITY- An Organizations Personality and Culture will ultimately reflect it’s senior Management values‚ If an organization is serious about implementing TQM‚ the Commitments to do so has to start at the TOP‚ and the organization’s Senior Management has to be unwavering in its commitment to quality Focusing on the Customer Lee Lacocca once advertised
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Term Project Report Total Quality Management Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Introduction 5 3. The meaning of quality 6 4. Understanding customer needs and expectations 7 5. The importance of quality 9 6. The evaluation of Quality management 14 6.1. Inspection 14 6.2. Quality control 15 6.3. Quality assurance 15 6.4. Total quality management 17 7. Important elements of TQM 19 8. How to introduce TQM 22 9. Levels of TQM 22 10. Sustaining TQM
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CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT? An organization planning the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) is about to embark on the challenge and opportunity of a lifetime. This adventure must surely change the organization. Total Quality Management can be the answer to both the customer’s plea for improved products and services and the organization’s quality and productivity problems. This chapter sets the stage for the conceptual understanding that is required before starting
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Total Quality Management Quality has been defined by many authors .Some definitions are * Fitness for use –Joseph .M. Juran * Compliances with specific requirement –Philip .B. Crosby * Function of continuous improvement by reducing variability of desired output – Edward Deming * The totality of characteristics of an entity that bear upon its ability to satisfy the stated & unstated needs of the customer - ISO 8402 * Quality is perceived by customers ‚based on his actual
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Total Quality’ represents a competitive strategy. In other words‚ ‘Quality’ in terms of ‘Total Quality’ is everything an organization does in the eyes of its customers‚ which will determine whether they buy from this company or from its competitor. ‘Total Quality’ provides an umbrella under which everyone in the organization can strive and create customer satisfaction. TQM has emerged as a new and different way of managing business that allows it to provide quality goods and services
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* 5 TQM‚ just another Management fad? * 6 References * 7 See also * 8 External links Definition TQM is composed of three paradigms: * Total: Organization wide * Quality: With its usual Definitions‚ with all its complexities (External Definition) * Management: The system of managing with steps like Plan‚ Organize‚ Control‚ Lead‚ Staff‚ etc. As defined by the International Organization for Standards (ISO): "TQM is a management approach for an organization
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TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT | CONTINUOUS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT | | Process‚ The Juran Trilogy‚ Improvement Strategies The PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act)‚ Problem solving method‚ Kaizen and Six-Sigma | | JOHN KIRUGUMI :B211/003/0003/2012 | 3/1/2013 | | INTRODUCTION Processes: Quality is a never ending quest and Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) is a never ending effort to discover and eliminate the main causes of problems. It accomplishes this by using small-steps improvements
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early 1980s‚ a new concept entered managerial discourse: Total Quality Management (TQM). TQM was heralded by governments‚ major corporations and the business media as the most effective and elegant way out of the economic crisis and into the global market. TQM claimed not to be a set of techniques but a philosophy of management (Sashkin and Kiser‚ 1993). Some commentators have argued that TQM is little more than an attempt to enhance management ’s control over labour (Delbridge et al.‚ 1992; Sewell
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Programme in Total Quality Management (71838) Purpose The national quality policy focuses on the quality of product‚ quality of service delivery (to the internal and external customer)‚ quality of organisation (systems and processes) and quality of work-life (QWL). The purpose of this SLP is to provide students a complete body of knowledge of TQM as a holistic approach to managing quality. Students will acquire fundamental theoretical and practical knowledge in various concepts of TQM necessary
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