Organizational Sustainability and TQM in SMEs: A Proposed Model

Organizational sustainability has become of great interest, and a high priority in today’s business environment by practitioners researchers. Successful implementation practices is becoming the cornerstone organizational survival, success, superior performance, competitive advantages. For organizations to be sustainable, must determine working models on how modulate operations, therefore purpose this paper critically attempts offer an insight into determining factors that influence organization SMEs assess role TQM towards achieving sustenance. In context SMEs, they were chosen due their vital key sustainable development dominance any nation’s economy contribution. objectives study, explorative descriptive analysis literature performed better understanding develop framework for SMEs. The study findings concluded realizing benefits dependent extent activities level employee participation. revealed further there significant correlation between based effective proposed model dimension. Keywords: Sustainability, TQM, Sustainable practices, Employee participation, Top management commitment. DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-4-09 Publication date: February 28 th 2021