Quality gurus such as Juran, Deming and Crosby have advocated various methodologies for business success and single out some quality practices. These practices have a positive impact on business performance in both manufacturing and service sectors.This paper attempts to identify the TQM...

Service sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world and is facing immense pressure to improve their quality of products and services to compete and achieve a leading position in the global market. The issues related to quality therefore, need to be addressed for better...

Purpose – Previous research showed that there are some barriers which hinder the implementation of total quality management (TQM) in organizations. But no study has been undertaken to understand the interaction among these barriers and to develop a hierarchy of TQM barriers model. There is an...

Purpose – Total quality management (TQM) has begun to influence national business systems and is widely seen as a “revolution” inmanagement. TQMinitiatives continuously search the needs of the customers and incorporate them in the organization on an ongoing basis. For this reason, the...

Total quality management (TQM) has been widely considered as the strategic, tactical and operational tool in the quality management research field. It is one of the most applied and well accepted approaches for business excellence besides Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Six Sigma,...