Critical Success Factors of Total Quality Management Implementation In Higher Education Institution: A Review

This paper determines the research area of critical success factors of total quality management (TQM) implementation in higher education institutions which has potential to be explored and generate new knowledge, to improve the total quality management practices and outcome especially in higher education institutions. This paper has reviewed all the literature which is relevant to critical success factors of total quality management (TQM) and its implementation in various areas. The review is focused on the implementations, the impacts on the organization’s performance and the encouraged indicators to the adoption of total quality management (TQM) in the organization. This study concludes the critical success factors of total quality management (TQM) and its implementation in higher education institutions. Because of lack of identified reason, many organizations do not adopt TQM approach into their organization. However, certain organization and institutions already indentified the benefits from TQM implementations on their organization performance and they believe this approach International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences December 2012, Vol. 2, No. 12 ISSN: 2222-6990 20 www.hrmars.com/journals could give them a chance to achieving their goals. The findings of this paper are a proposed conceptual model which consists of TQM critical success factors implementation and its impact of higher education institutions performance.