Manajemen Kualitas Total

TQM atau Total Quality Management (Bahasa Indonesia: manajemen kualitas total) adalah strategi manajemen yang ditujukan untuk menanamkan kesadaran kualitas pada semua proses dalam organisasi. Sesuai dengan definisi dari ISO, TQM adalah "suatu pendekatan manajemen untuk suatu organisasi yang terpusat pada kualitas, berdasarkan partisipasi semua anggotanya dan bertujuan untuk kesuksesan jangka panjang melalui kepuasan pelanggan serta memberi keuntungan untuk semua anggota dalam organisasi serta masyarakat."

Filosofi dasar dari TQM adalah "sebagai efek dari kepuasan konsumen, sebuah organisasi dapat mengalami kesuksesan."
Kendaraan yang digunakan dalam TQM:

1. Manajemen Harian
2. Manajemen Kebijakan
3. Manajemen Cross-functional
4. Gugus Kendali Mutu

TQM telah digunakan secara luas dalam manufaktur, pendidikan, pemerintahan, dan industri jasa, bahkan program-program luar angkasa dan ilmu pengetahuan NASA.

Total Quality Management

At its core, Total Quality Management (TQM) is a management approach to long-term success through customer satisfaction.
In a TQM effort, all members of an organization participate in improving processes, products, services and the culture in which they work.
The methods for implementing this approach come from the teachings of such quality leaders as Philip B. Crosby, W. Edwards Deming, Armand V. Feigenbaum, Kaoru Ishikawa and Joseph M. Juran.
A core concept in implementing TQM is Deming’s 14 points, a set of management practices to help companies increase their quality and productivity:

1. Create constancy of purpose for improving products and services.
2. Adopt the new philosophy.
3. Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality.
4. End the practice of awarding business on price alone; instead, minimize total cost by working with a single supplier.
5. Improve constantly and forever every process for planning, production and service.
6. Institute training on the job.
7. Adopt and institute leadership.
8. Drive out fear.
9. Break down barriers between staff areas.
10. Eliminate slogans, exhortations and targets for the workforce.
11. Eliminate numerical quotas for the workforce and numerical goals for management.
12. Remove barriers that rob people of pride of workmanship, and eliminate the annual rating or merit system.
13. Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement for everyone.
14. Put everybody in the company to work accomplishing the transformation.

The term “Total Quality Management” has lost favor in the United States in recent years: “Quality management” is commonly substituted. “Total Quality Management,” however, is still used extensively in Europe.