Total
Quality Management
MGT510
VU
Lesson
#0 6
TOTAL
QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
FOR QUALITY AT
OFFICE
Total
Quality Management is an organization wide
process based on:
·
best
use of the resources of the total
organization
·
organizational
flexibility and response to
change
·
defined
internal and external customer/supplier
relationships embracing:
external
customers
internal
customers
external
suppliers
internal
suppliers
Bound
together in long term business
relationships
Measurement
of performance. The standard is the
"agreed customer requirement
"and the required
performance
is
absolute
conformance to agreed customer
requirements
customer
satisfaction
process
efficiency
anticipating
customer needs and expectations
delivering
products and services that delight
customers
benchmarking
- identifying and adopting world-wide
best practice
measuring
and monitoring continuous
improvement
TQM
principles provide a framework and
model how to spend the time
in organizations to do the
quality
work. Conducting meetings and making
decision is also one the important
task of managers.
Now
we are going to discuss in
detail the nine basics steps
which professional managers
can use in their
meetings
in order to improve the performance and
productivity .After implementing
these basic skills in
any
organization company can save
their valuable and precious
time and can come to
conclusion easily.
Nine
Discussion Skills
1.
Open
the discussion
2.
Listen
3.
Ask
for clarification
4.
Manage
participation
5.
Summarize
6.
Manage
time
7.
Contain
digressions
8.
Test
for agreement
9.
Close
the discussion
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