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Enhancing Basic Metal Industry Global Competitiveness Through Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management & Just- In -Time

The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...

Facilitating implementation of total quality management through information technology

There is growing interest in the service industries in the adoption of quality management programs to improve their operational ef®ciency and market competitiveness. Deming's total quality management (TQM) philosophy is one of the wellknown ones. The TQM emphasizes continuous improvement through statistical control and the continuous training of people in the principles of quality management. O...

The Meadiating Effect of Quality Culture on the Relationship Between Total Quality Management Practices and Competitiveness

Submitted: Apr 27, 2013; Accepted: Jun 3, 2013; Published: Jun 30, 2013 Abstract: Quality culture conditions are strongly linked with project outcomes and hence, initiatives undertaken should be incorporated to the organizational cultural changes. Total quality management practices in construction industries can be described as the processes or that aligns the business performance strategy to t...

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Integrating Total Quality Management and Knowledge Management

In the early1980s when total quality management (TQM) was first introduced in companies as the way to achieve organizational success/excellence, it did not receive an immediate support and universal acceptance. Gradually the benefits of quality and quality management programs became evident and controversies disappeared. Twenty years later, organizations are facing precisely the same dilemma wi...