A Study on Total Quality Management Impact on Human Resource Function
Keywords:
TQM, Hr Functions, Job Commitment, Training and DevelopmentAbstract
Everyone has experiences of poor quality once addressing business organizations. Fortunate firms perceive the powerful impact customer-defined quality will wear business. For this reason, several competitive corporations regularly increase their quality standards. Total quality management has the way of reaching implications for the management of human resources. It emphasizes self-control, autonomy, and creativeness among staff and entails larger active cooperation instead of simply compliance. Indeed, it's turning into a proverb of fine management that human factors are the foremost vital dimension in quality and productivity improvement. This article argues that TQM, principles, contribution, tools, and techniques and concludes with the impact of human resource management.
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