Total Quality Management in Higher Education: Defenders, Opponents, and Attempts for Modifications

Iman Rabah

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Iman Rabah

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higher education, total quality management (TQM), TQM founders, TQM defenders, TQM opponent, TQM modification

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clearly present TQM principles and characteristics initiated by TQM founders and to review the literature that witnesses TQM success as well as failure in higher education and attempts to modify the TQM model to fit the higher education context. The higher education total quality management model and its impact on the university including professional autonomy and scholarly activities are examined in order to study its positive and negative effects.In order to understand TQM principles and its applicability or inapplicability to the higher education context, the TQM principles are studied as developed by the main TQM scholars. The founders of TQM basically initiated it in manufacturing, yet this paper studies this literature in order to give a comprehensive picture of TQM so as to make its principles clear for the sake of studying its implementation in higher education.

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Total Quality Management in Higher Education: Defenders, Opponents, and Attempts for Modifications. (2015). Global Journal of Management and Business Research, 15(A11), 67-82. https://journalofbusiness.org/index.php/GJMBR/article/view/1800

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