The research study involved exploring how Peruvian companies use TQM practices and the differences in this use considering industrial sector and company size. Three hundred and sixty-three MBA students, middle managers of private companies operating in Arequipa, Cajamarca, Chiclayo, Cusco, Lima, Piura, or Trujillo, answered a questionnaire, developed by the author, about the use of TQM practice...

Small and medium enterprises play an essential and important role in economic development and social development in any country. Small and medium enterprises are found in every economy, both advanced industrialized and developing countries. In every economy there are only a few large enterprises, supported by a large number of small and medium enterprises, which explains why 90 % of enterprises...

Maintaining quality in construction projects is paramount to project success, achieved through techniques such as Total Quality Management (TQM). However, the key factors of TQM implementation industry developing countries are not well explored. Accordingly, this paper evaluated causative relationship and intricacies sector countries. A total 28 were captured a literature review. Thereafter, 12...

Penerapan Total Quality Management(TQM) merupakan salah satu cara terbaik untuk menjaga kondisi perusahaan tetap sehat saat sedang berkembang karena TQM dapat memberikan keuntungan bagi dalam persaingan dunia bisnis. Akibatnya, yang adalah dengan menerapkan TQM. Tujuan dari penelitian ini mengetahui bagaimana penerapan di PT. Ukhuwah Industri Universitas Muslim Indonesia. Penelitian berusaha pe...

introduction: human skills, knowledge and efficiency are important factors in the success of organizations and community health centers which have a critical role in total quality management (tqm) as a management system. knowledge is necessary as a source for the organizations survival. on the other hand, in order for implementation of knowledge management, there is a need for a relatively long...

Purpose: This paper discusses the issues of employee’s empowerment, their training needs, suggestions and other issues related to it. Total quality management (TQM) is a management technique adopted by the most manufacturing organizations. TQM in general is viewed as organization set up which will help to manufacture products at lowest cost by the following various management techniques through...

The continuous improvement in TQM is considered as the core value by which organisation could maintain a competitive edge. Several techniques and tools are known to support this core value but most of the time these techniques are informal and without modelling the interdependence between the core value and tools. Thus, technique formalisation is one of TQM challenges for increasing efficiency ...

In Australia, the traditional Quality Assurance approach used in the hospital setting has played an important role in nursing practice. During the past decade, nurses have begun making a paradigm shift from Quality Assurance to Total Quality Management but scant attention has been paid to quality management practices in nursing in the higher education sector. This paper reports on a quantitativ...