Chapter 6 Exercise (Please Give Me A Different Answer Than What Was Already Post

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Chapter 6 Exercise (Please Give Me A Different Answer Than What Was Already Posted) Thanks In Advance!!!

You are a professional employed at a large urban medical center. You have been appointed to serve as a nonmanagerial member of a steering committee established to guide the implementation of TQM throughout the organization. The committee has been through a week of intensive education in TQM/performance improvement principles and has held the first two of an indefinite series of weekly meetings to pave the way for translating the TQM philosophy into practical actions that can be implemented. You are encouraged by what you have learned and experienced during these first few weeks; however, you are also conscious of the organization’s past failures with management by objectives (MBO) and quality circles, and you are aware of a fairly widespread tendency to regard such undertakings as dabbling in the latest management “flavor of the month.”                

Your second steering committee ends late, leaving you only two minutes to get to your next commitment. As you leave the conference room and enter the hospital’s main corridor, a colleague, heading toward the same destination as you, falls into step beside you and asks, “What’s this total quality management all about? Looks to me like the same stuff that’s been pushed at us in different wrappers several times over the years, and it’ll probably go the same way. Nowhere. More fancy notebooks and reports that end up collecting dust. Why should we think this will be any less of a waste of time and resources?”                

You have less than two minutes available while on the move to provide your colleague with a positive response in a few sentences. Write out your proposed response.

Explanation / Answer

TQM is all about creating value for the customer through offering superior quality, the first time and every time. It also needs commitment from all sections of employees to contribute to the success of initiative. The essence of TQM is in embibing the philosophy by every employees to assume highest degree of customer focus by finding out gaps in the performance in his /her respective area, that affect the customer satisfaction and correcting them to create ultimate value for customer.

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