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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Quality Management

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Quality management is not an easy thing to maintain, therefore, there are certain challenges that it must face before being successful. Some of them are ineffective TQM model, the human resource barriers, and also lack of management committment. First of all, the ineffective TQM model, Total quality management are having problems both theoretically and practically (Mosadeghrad, 2013). Some complementary management theories must be integrated with TQM to refine and develop it further to achieve competitive advantage. An intensive knowledge of sociology, psychology and change management helps introduce, institutionalize and manage the TQM change successfully. There is a need for an empirically sound and comprehensive model of TQM to assist managers …show more content…

This may be caused by the lack of appropriate training and also briefing by the higher management to the employees who are using it. Besides that, the management team may also lack of understanding on how the employees are doing their job and they do not know that the new system are bringing them more problem. This is a communication problem This is a serious issues as this will cause the company a fortune to install the system but it is not included in the operation, making a waste of resources. Situation like this will bring further loss to the company when the company got outdated when they are not following to the footstep of the technology and all their customer will switch over to their competitors for business. On the long run, this will not just cause a waste of resources, but the losing of customer to other competitors since the company cannot keep up with the current flow of the modern world. The company can improve this situation by providing training and incentives to their worker in order to make …show more content…

A successful implementation requires people with high devotion. Newell and Dale (1990) found that the slightest lack of concentration from the managers will be enough to make the company to miss the attention and getting away from further improvement. Furthermore, Schein (1991) states that the U.S. Quality Council are deeply concerned by top management in many companies having less commitment. Quality management with less commitment may happens due to various reason. Misfocusing on the short-term profits, with limited experience and training of executives may also be the main problems. Some management team may just focus on the short term profit but ignored the long term profit; this will make their vision to be unsuccessful as vision are more towards the long term profit for the organization. Management may also be too ignorance to their decision and they will ignore the employees opinion in using a new system. besides that, there are also management team where they just follow the current to install the new system without fully understand the usage of the system or the requirement of the system. this will cause a waste of resources as the newly installed system are not fully utilized, causing more loss to the company. The management team should have invite a consultant for their consultation on the suitable type of new

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