Understanding the relationship of top management personality to TQM implementation

Production and Inventory Management Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 6-10

  Krumwiede, Dennis W ^a   Sheu, Chwen ^b   Lavelle, Jerome ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); DECISION MAKING; JOB SATISFACTION; MANUFACTURE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR; TOP MANAGEMENT PERSONALITY;

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032093398     PISSN: 08978336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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