Total Quality Management (TQM)programs

question 48

Multiple Choice

Total quality management (TQM) programs

• A) deal exclusively with procedures to achieve defect-free manufacturing and assembly.
• B) nearly always contribute more to the achievement of operating excellence than either business process reengineering or Six Sigma quality control techniques.
• C) achieve the biggest success when extended to employee efforts in all departments-human resources,R&D,accounting and records,information systems,and so forth.
• D) are considerably more effective in improving manufacturing and assembly activities than they are in improving such value chain activities as R&D,human resources management,supply chain management,information technology,sales and marketing,and finance.
• E) are generally considered the best tool for reengineering strategy-critical business processes.

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