Total Quality Management

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The society in which we live in today is one that is filled with competition. The entire flow of the business world is based off of the competitive advantage of a company in comparison to another. When you think about a fast-food restaurant for example, you often have a couple choices that come to mind. One day you can say you’re McDonald’s because their dollar menu deal is right in conjunction with your budget. Then, one day you see an advertisement for Burger King saying that there is a special that they are running and now you can afford to go there and eat. What exactly made Burger King run a special? Well in order for a business who is offering the same or similar services as another business to be able to survive, they must compete in terms of doing whatever is necessary to attract more customers. In the world of transportation, we often see so many new cars come into existence that it would be almost impossible to say that we don’t notice the competition between sellers. With competition in mind, there is something that must always be considered by a company in terms of being beneficial to a company, and that is the quality of what they have to offer and sell. The total quality management of a product is one thing that is going to be the determining factor of how well a product sells, and how much revenue a company will bring in because it is the responsibility of everyone involved with a company to help that company flourish.

First and foremost we must know what Total Quality Management is. Total quality management is, and has been defined as a type of approach that is used to improve quality and performance in such a way that it will exceed all expectations of the customer (Murray, 2011). Total quality management tend...

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...gement is one that all companies should have implemented within them because it involves every employee to help the company succeed. We all know that team work is what makes anything possible so the total quality management process is a direct representation of team work to ultimately bring success.

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