Total Quality Management is a methodology that organizations can adapt and deploy as they see fit, with generally accepted principles including customer satisfaction, employee commitment through empowerment and training, fact-based decision making using data and statistics, effective communications throughout the organization, strategic thinking to make quality part of the long-term vision, an integrated system with a shared vision and commitment to quality principles, a process-centered approach to locate and repeat best processes, and continuous improvement where all employees always look for ways to perform their job better.
Total Quality Management is a methodology that organizations can adapt and deploy as they see fit, with generally accepted principles including customer satisfaction, employee commitment through empowerment and training, fact-based decision making using data and statistics, effective communications throughout the organization, strategic thinking to make quality part of the long-term vision, an integrated system with a shared vision and commitment to quality principles, a process-centered approach to locate and repeat best processes, and continuous improvement where all employees always look for ways to perform their job better.
Total Quality Management is a methodology that organizations can adapt and deploy as they see fit, with generally accepted principles including customer satisfaction, employee commitment through empowerment and training, fact-based decision making using data and statistics, effective communications throughout the organization, strategic thinking to make quality part of the long-term vision, an integrated system with a shared vision and commitment to quality principles, a process-centered approach to locate and repeat best processes, and continuous improvement where all employees always look for ways to perform their job better.
Total Quality Management is a methodology that organizations can adapt and deploy as they see fit, with generally accepted principles including customer satisfaction, employee commitment through empowerment and training, fact-based decision making using data and statistics, effective communications throughout the organization, strategic thinking to make quality part of the long-term vision, an integrated system with a shared vision and commitment to quality principles, a process-centered approach to locate and repeat best processes, and continuous improvement where all employees always look for ways to perform their job better.
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Total Quality Management Principles
No single accepted body of knowledge exists for total quality management, as
does, for example, the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) for the Project Management Institute. Similarly, no prescribed actions exist for implementing TQM methods and tools. Organizations have been free to deploy and adapt TQM as they see fit, giving way to many definitions of the methodology. Despite these challenges to standardization, it’s possible to describe generally accepted principles: Customer Satisfaction Employee Commitment: This creates empowerment through training and suggestion mechanisms. Fact-Based Decision Making: Teams collect data and process statistics to ensure that work meets specifications. Effective Communications: There should be an open dialogue throughout an organization. Strategic Thinking: Quality must be part of an organization’s long-term vision. Integrated System: A shared vision, including knowledge of and commitment to principles of quality, keep everyone in a company connected. Taiichi Ohno recognized that even suppliers are an important part of the system. Process-Centered: You can deconstruct every activity into processes, and, therefore, locate and repeat the best process. Continuous Improvement: Every employee should always be thinking about how to better perform their job.