TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring TQM's impact on the causal linkage between manufacturing objective and organizational performance
AU - Lin, Chinho
AU - Chang, Shofang
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by a grant from the National Science Council, Taiwan, Republic of China (NSC 89-2416-H-006-057).
Copyright:
Copyright 2006 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2006/5/1
Y1 - 2006/5/1
N2 - Total quality management (TQM) has been recognized as a competitive advantage for a firm's success. Nonetheless, little of the literature has mentioned TQM's influence on the causal linkages between manufacturing objective and organizational performance. Thus, this paper aims to explore the patterns of TQM practice and manufacturing objective as well as their associations with organizational performance improvement by using stepwise regression and canonical correlation analysis. Case studies were also performed to demonstrate our results. The result supports the strong linkages of TQM and manufacturing objective as well as organizational performance. In particular, under distinct TQM practice groups, the manufacturing objective attainment performs differently when it is pursuing organizational performance. This study concludes that for high TQM practice firms, flexibility and delivery time are currently what TQM contributes most for pursuing organizational performance. Otherwise, in order to compensate the disadvantages of other manufacturing objectives, low TQM practice firms should foster their service quality so that their organizational performance can be improved.
AB - Total quality management (TQM) has been recognized as a competitive advantage for a firm's success. Nonetheless, little of the literature has mentioned TQM's influence on the causal linkages between manufacturing objective and organizational performance. Thus, this paper aims to explore the patterns of TQM practice and manufacturing objective as well as their associations with organizational performance improvement by using stepwise regression and canonical correlation analysis. Case studies were also performed to demonstrate our results. The result supports the strong linkages of TQM and manufacturing objective as well as organizational performance. In particular, under distinct TQM practice groups, the manufacturing objective attainment performs differently when it is pursuing organizational performance. This study concludes that for high TQM practice firms, flexibility and delivery time are currently what TQM contributes most for pursuing organizational performance. Otherwise, in order to compensate the disadvantages of other manufacturing objectives, low TQM practice firms should foster their service quality so that their organizational performance can be improved.
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U2 - 10.1080/14783360500528239
DO - 10.1080/14783360500528239
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33645722041
VL - 17
SP - 465
EP - 484
JO - Total Quality Management and Business Excellence
JF - Total Quality Management and Business Excellence
SN - 1478-3363
IS - 4
ER -