Total Quality Management (TQM)

question 81

Multiple Choice

Total quality management (TQM)

• A)entails creating a total quality culture that strives for continuously improving the performance of every value chain activity and is driven by a philosophy of managing a set of business practices: 100 percent accuracy in performing tasks (zero defects), involvement and empowerment of employees at all levels, team-based work design, benchmarking, and total customer satisfaction.
• B)is a valuable tool for helping company managers identify what the best practice is for performing a particular activity at a high level of quality.
• C)works best when used in conjunction with Six Sigma quality control techniques.
• D)is an excellent tool for reengineering business processes and making quantum gains in the efficiency and effectiveness with which the processes are performed.
• E)is a philosophy of doing things that aims at mistake-free management of a company's entire business.

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