TY - BOOK AU - Creech, Bill TI - The five pillars of TQM : how to make total quality management work for you SN - 9780452271029 U1 - 658.562 PY - 1994/// CY - New York : PB - Truman Talley Books/Plume KW - Total quality management N1 - Includes index; 1. TQM: The Need, the Issues, the Shape It Must Take -- 2. Lessons from Japan's Success and American Failings -- 3. Winning Big by Organizing Small: More Key Examples -- 4. A TQM Turnaround in Our Biggest Bureaucracy -- 5. Product: Focal Point for Purpose and Achievement -- 6. Process: Its Effectiveness Determines Product Worth -- 7. TQM Involves the Entire System, Not Pieces of It -- 8. Leadership: It's a Must, and It's Not Managership -- 9. Creating Organizational Leadership and Competence -- 10. Commitment: TQM Builds It, and It Creates Success -- 11. A TQM Path to Tomorrow: New Ways for New Days -- 12. American Management: The Time for Change Is Now -- Epilogue: The Guidelines for Five Pillar TQM ER -