Q. TQM is a people-focused management system that aims at a continual increase in customer satisfaction at a continually lower cost. TQM is a total system approach (not a separate area or program), and an integral part of a high-level strategy. It works horizontally across functions and departments, involving all employees, top to bottom, and exceeds backward and forward to include the supply chain and the customer chain. Which organization had given this definition of TQM?

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Q. Which ‘pillar of TQM’ is referred to when the study of customer needs is done, the requirements of the customer are gathered, and customer satisfaction is measured and managed?

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Q. Which ‘pillar of TQM’ refers to the act of developing a production process that reduces product variations, and by application of this process, the same product with the same level of quality is produced every time?

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Q. Which ‘pillar of TQM’ refers to TQM’s environment of a committed and well-trained workforce that participates in activities involving quality improvement?

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Q. Which ‘pillar of TQM’ recognizes that product quality is a result of process quality?

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Q. In traditional management, quality is determined by the company. In total quality management, quality is determined by the customer.

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Q. Company M has short-term goals like achieving the predicted quarterly profit. Company N has long-term goals like achieving sustained customer satisfaction. What can you infer about the management culture?

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Q. In traditional management, individual employees are held accountable for the presence of a defect.

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Q. The manager of a company is known to threaten his employees for the presence of a defect. What can you infer about the management culture?

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Q. A company is known to have a reward policy for its employees. The manager gives its employees a chance to improve if a mistake is conducted by them. What can you infer about the management culture?

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Q. In Company A, the workers who are involved in producing a product are responsible for its quality. In Company B, everyone in the organization including the top executives is responsible for producing quality products. What can you infer about the management culture?

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Q. In Company E, the supervisors and employees solve problems based on their individual knowledge, skills, and instincts. In Company F, everyone in the organization solves problems based on substantive data. What can you infer about the management culture?

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Q. Which of the following is a principle of TQM?

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Q. The customer determines the level of quality.

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Q. To attain customer satisfaction, which of the following is mandatory in TQM?

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Q. Which of the following is a principle of TQM?

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Q. Benchmarking is a TQM technique.

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Q. Which of the following is the kind of planning approach a company following TQM follows?

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Q. What is the kind of focus put in a company’s processes in TQM?

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Q. Decisions in a company which follows TQM is _______

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