Project Management and Total Quality Management : Complementary or confused?

Journal Title: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies - Year 2009, Vol 2, Issue 1

Abstract

Quality management and project management appear as themes of strategic management today. The adoption of the project management constitutes a new way in organizing the production. It helps to cope with the complexity of the environment, to reduce the product life cycles and to make working arrangements more flexible. It should also adapt to the ICT revolution and restructuring of enterprises due to the dematerialisation of structures and transactions. Quality management, applied to more operations and strongly influenced by the quantitative approach seems compatible with project management. Indeed, the two paradigms emphasize the importance of customer satisfaction, teamwork, the role of leadership and the continuous improvement of processes and products. This paper aims to revisit the principles of relationship between total quality management and project management. Having shown the importance of incorporating fine patterns and project quality in business organization, we will explain how the ability to generate, select and conduct projects in an oriented accountability of management is able to enroll in a total quality.

Authors and Affiliations

Selma KATLANE BEN MLOUKA| Enseignant-chercheur, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisie

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Selma KATLANE BEN MLOUKA (2009). Project Management and Total Quality Management : Complementary or confused?. ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 2(1), 81-91. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-9030