Organizations that succeed never approach total quality as just another management innovation or, even worse, as a quick fix. Rather, they approach total quality as a new way of doing business. What follows are common errors organizations make when implementing total quality. The successful organizations avoid these errors.
- Senior management delegation and poor leadership. Some organizations attempt to start a quality initiative by delegating responsibility to a hired expert rather than applying the leadership necessary to get everyone involved.
- Team mania. Ultimately teams should be established, and all employees should be involved with them. However, working in teams is an approach that must be learned. Supervisors must learn how to be effective coaches, and employees must learn how to be team players. The organization must undergo a cultural change before teamwork can succeed. Rushing in and putting everyone in teams before learning has occurred and the corporate culture has changed will create problems rather than solve them.
- Deployment process. Some organizations develop quality initiatives without concurrently developing plans for integrating them into all elements of the organization (operations, budgeting, marketing, etc.).
- Taking a narrow, dogmatic approach. Some organizations are determined to take the Deming approach, Juran approach, or Crosby approach and use only the principles prescribed in them. None of the approaches advocated by these and other leading quality experts is truly a one-size-fits-all proposition. Even the experts encourage organizations to tailor quality programs to their individual needs.
- Confusion about the differences among education, awareness, inspiration, and skill building. In order for people to do their part in making the total quality approach work effectively, they must have the skills to apply the fundamental tools of quality. Making them aware of quality and inspiring them to accept it at a philosophical level are good and necessary steps in the right direction. But helping them develop the actual skills necessary to implement the concept must also be part of the transformational process.
Source: Goetsch David L., Davis Stanley B. (2016), Quality Management for organizational excellence introduction to total Quality, Pearson; 8th edition.
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