Open AccessApplying Total Quality Management Tools Using QFD at Higher Education Institutions in Gulf Area (Case Study: ALHOSN University)
Author(s) -
Adnan Al–Bashir
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of production management and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2340-4876
pISSN - 2340-5317
DOI - 10.4995/ijpme.2016.4599
Subject(s) - quality function deployment , total quality management , higher education , quality (philosophy) , institution , engineering management , quality management , house of quality , function (biology) , business , process management , management , engineering , operations management , political science , sociology , management system , marketing , economics , social science , philosophy , value engineering , law , biology , epistemology , evolutionary biology , lean manufacturing , service (business) , customer retention , service quality
Human power’s quality plays the key role in the growth and development of societies where the quality of human powers can be enriched with the high quality education provided by the higher education institutions. The higher education institutions are hereby an important sector of any society since it defines the overall quality of human lives. This research will investigate the application of Total Quality Management (TQM) tools at the higher education institutions; specifically at ALHOSN University. In this study five tools were implemented at ALHOSN University’s engineering college including: Quality Function Deployment, Affinity Diagrams, Tree Diagrams, Pareto Charts, and Fishbone Diagrams. The research will reveal that the implementation of TQM tools has a great benefit for higher education institutions where they have uncovered many area of potential improvement as well as the main causes of some of the problems the Faculty of Engineering is facing. Also, it will show that the implementation of TQM tools on higher education institution systems will enhance the performance of such institutions