A B S T R A C T
Total quality management (TQM) is an approach to management embracing both social
and technical dimensions aimed at achieving excellent results, which needs to be put into
practice through a specific framework. Nowadays, quality award models, such as the
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) and the European Foundation for
Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model, are used as a guide to TQM
implementation by a large number of organizations. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of
empirical research confirming whether these models clearly reflect the main premises of
TQM. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent to which the EFQM Excellence
Model captures themain assumptions involved in the TQM concept, that is, the distinction
between technical and social TQM issues, the holistic interpretation of TQM in the firm,
and the causal linkage between TQM procedures and organizational performance.
Based on responses collected from managers of 446 Spanish companies by means of a
structured questionnaire, we find that: (a) social and technical dimensions are embedded
in the model; (b) both dimensions are intercorrelated; (c) they jointly enhance results.
These findings support the EFQM Excellence Model as an operational framework for TQM,
and also reinforce the results obtained in previous studies for the MBNQA, suggesting that
quality award models really are TQM frameworks

:: برچسب‌ها: مدیریت کیفیت فراگیر , TQM , EFQM , مدل معادلات ساختاری , تحقیقات تجربی ,
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