By analysis of performed spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) in developed countries, it is believed that one of the most important problems which obstacles the implementation of SDI’s objectives, is the lack of enough harmony in different parts. The solution given in management systems for more adaptability is using total quality management (TQM). In this paper, we compare SDI and TQM from adva...

This study addresses managers’ awareness and familiarity with Total Quality Management (TQM). Eighteen (18) semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with managers working in a variety of service organizations in Greece. The major argument of the study is that although the acronym TQM and some of its concepts and practices are known by a range of public and private sector managers, ac...

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...

South Africa has embarked on a process of education renewal by adopting outcomesbased education (OBE). This paper focuses on the linkages between total quality management (TQM) and the outcomes-based approach in an education context. Quality assurance in academic programmes in higher education in South Africa is, in some instances, based on the TQM model because of a strong focus on the employe...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a set of total quality management (TQM) and supply chain management (SCM) practices through an extensive literature review and to identify the relationships among them by comparing the identified TQM and SCM practices. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive overview of the practices of TQM and SCM is carried out using published research pape...

Are large organizations faster or slower than small organizations at learning to implement a new system or innovation after officially adopting it? We find that, among hospitals implementing total quality management (TQM), large organizations have less desire to learn but, ironically, have more ability to learn. As a result, those few large organizations that do possess a strong motivation to l...

During the last two decades, quality had become a very important issue in many large organisations for both industrial and service sectors. They regard quality as a formidable weapon in addressing business competition and challenges both from local and global competitors. At present, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) had also joint the bandwagon in their effort to improve their products and s...

There is an 80% failure rate for organisational development programmes like total quality management (TQM). Scholars and practitioners agree that success and failure of TQM and other organisational learning programmes depend on having strong management commitment. As this may not always be possible to obtain, one might ask whether good implementation methods based on systems thinking could comp...