ABSTRACT

The principles of Total Quality Management have proven to be invaluable to organisations in all sectors of business and commerce and to the individuals they comprise. Indeed many organisations have discovered the relationship between quality and profitability. Now, more than ever, it is important to develop a quality strategy by adopting the principles of TQM.

This important text provides a solid framework for understanding the basic concepts of TQM. It comprises three interlinked modules - fundamentals of TQM, methods of TQM and process management and improvement - and provides an integrated approach to this increasingly important business strategy.

Fundamentals of Total Quality Management is vital reading for students doing MBAs, and those on MSc courses in business studies and engineering featuring TQM models, as well as practitioners in quality management and control.

part |2 pages

Part One Fundamentals of Total Quality Management

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|5 pages

Some definitions of quality

chapter 4|26 pages

Philosophy, principles and concepts of TQM

chapter 6|10 pages

The European Quality Award

part |2 pages

Part Two Methods of Total Quality Management

chapter 7|47 pages

Tools for the quality journey

chapter 8|19 pages

Some new management techniques

chapter 9|6 pages

Measurement of quality: an introduction

chapter 10|10 pages

Measurement of customer satisfaction

chapter 11|6 pages

Measurement of employee satisfaction

chapter 13|20 pages

Quality measurement in product development

chapter 14|13 pages

Quality costing

chapter 15|11 pages

Benchmarking

part |2 pages

Part Three Process Management and Improvement