Total Quality Management (TQM) refers to management methods used to enhance quality and productivity in business organizations. TQM is a comprehensive management approach that works horizontally ...

Rather than a specific management tool or process, Total Quality Management (TQM) is an approach that small business owners or managers hold in running their company. They focus on quality and price ...

Japanese manufacturers adopted quality-control theories developed by American experts to rebuild the Japanese industrial base after the Second World War. Japanese experts such as Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa ...

A quality circle is a participatory management technique that enlists the help of employees in solving problems related to their own jobs. Circles are formed of employees working together in an ...

Editor's Note: IndustryWeek has been reviving archived articles of interviews conducted by our editors with the "gurus" of quality -- Deming, Juran, Crosby, and in this article, Armand V. Feigenbaum, ...

Between now and the year 2000, predictions are that immigrants from different countries and diverse cultural backgrounds will represent the largest share of the increase in the U.S. work force since ...

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TQM is a management approach that originated in the 1950s and has steadily become more popular since the early 1980s. Total Quality is a description of the culture, attitude, and organization of a ...