• DocumentCode
    3517647
  • Title

    TQM Practices in the Pakistani Electrical and Electronic SMEs: Evidence through Survey Analysis

  • Author

    Malik, Shahab Alam ; Tian Ye-zhuang

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Manage., Harbin Inst. of Technol.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-7 Oct. 2006
  • Firstpage
    710
  • Lastpage
    714
  • Abstract
    In current technological era, TQM pursuance has been realized essential by enterprises to achieve their primary goal of satisfaction and retention of their customers. Like many other countries, in Pakistan also ISO-9000 certification is perceived by majority of enterprises for setting up quality improvement management system. In this survey based research paper an effort towards probing TQM practices being exercised in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and identification of TQM critical factors for success, being perceived by them has been made. Total 184 enterprises belonged to electric and electrical industry of Pakistan were approached by sending a multilingual questionnaire, which resulted in a response rate of only 1.08%. Only two-reputed ISO certified organizations shared their experiences. So from available sources, current research paper has been designed as a thorough case study and comparative analysis of these two organizations
  • Keywords
    ISO standards; electrical products industry; electronics industry; small-to-medium enterprises; total quality management; ISO certified organizations; ISO-9000 certification; Pakistani electrical/electronic SME; TQM critical factors; TQM practices; multilingual questionnaire; quality improvement management system; small-medium sized enterprises; survey analysis; Books; Certification; Companies; Continuous improvement; Cultural differences; ISO standards; Organizing; Quality management; Technology management; Total quality management; ISO; Pakistan; SMEs; TQM;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management Science and Engineering, 2006. ICMSE '06. 2006 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Lille
  • Print_ISBN
    7-5603-2355-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSE.2006.313999
  • Filename
    4104990