Application of Concept of TQM

Product quality came to the forefront in the American economy in the late1980s, as the top managements in American companies learned that American product quality was generally perceivedby Americans and foreign consumers aliketo be inferior to products from other countriesparticularly Germany and Japan. The initial emphasis in the quality reawakening in the United States was on manufactured goods, as opposed to services. In the service, professional, and construction sectors, American companies were generally competing against other American companies; thus, the pressures to improve product quality were not perceived to be as significant as they were in the manufacturing sector. The advent of the longestduration economic recession in the United States since the 1930s, however, has changed the appreciation of quality outside of the manufacturing sector of the economy.1 Companies in service, professional, and construction firms in the United States are now aware that quality must be emphasized in their operations, if they are to retain their customers bases.2

1Larry Armstrong, and William C. Symonds, "Beyond 'May I help you?'" Business Week, 29 October 1991, 100.

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tely relationships oriented will likely make decisions which, while they avoid organizational conflict  42Chrunden and Sherman, 40. development, will often immobilize the organization from an economic perspective. The most successful leaders give consideration to both economic and social factors in decisionmaking. The balance between these two sets of values will vary between organizations and will vary within organizations over time. This balance depends upon the prevailing situation at any particular time. The transformational leadership style concept provides a slight departure from the leadership theory trend of the past three decades. Where all concepts of leadership recognize that successful leaders in any type of organization must work within a set of goals and objectives, the transformational leadership concept recognizes that a successful leader must expand these goals and objectives into a vision.43 This vision must represent an end state. The leader's vision must encompass an understanding of exactly what he or she expects the organization to be at the end of the cycle in which it finds itself, or in which it is preparing to enter.44 If an organization is embarking on a new strategy, the leade
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