Review relationship TPM as mediator between TQM and business performance

In today’s highly competitive market, the demand for quality is the single most critical factor for companies to survive in the ever-expanding glob-al marketplace. Total Quality Management (TQM) has been developed as a re-sult of intense global competition. Most of the previous works show that TQM h...

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Main Authors: Ngadiman, Yunos, Abdul Hamid, Nor Aziati, Bon, Abdul Talib, Ahmad, Md Fauzi, Raja Mohd Rasi, Raja Zuraidah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6982/
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6982/1/FullPaper_ICIMSA2015_YunosFauzi_malaysia.pdf
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Summary:In today’s highly competitive market, the demand for quality is the single most critical factor for companies to survive in the ever-expanding glob-al marketplace. Total Quality Management (TQM) has been developed as a re-sult of intense global competition. Most of the previous works show that TQM has significant relationship with business performance. However, the examin-ing of moderators is less given in previous work, which mediators are known generally as general tools and techniques without specific focus on types of im-provement. The purpose of this paper is to propose relationship between TQM practices and business performance with mediators effect of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) based on extensive review of the literature. The main con-tribution of this paper is to identify the relationships among TQM, TPM prac-tices and business performance as a conceptual model. This proposed concep-tual model will help the academicians and industry players to have better un-derstanding on the relationship between the practices