Total Quality Management And Continuous Improvement

Introduction: Total quality management(TQM), as a new management method, came up in 1950s and it has been a widespread proliferation in Japan and United Stated. Since 1985s, thousands of enterprises have already launched TQM. Up to now TQM is built into different sections of organization operation and become one of essential fundamental principles while people work out. With the change of environment and development of science and technology, progressive means of TQM is not sufficient to organization, whereupon business process reengineering(BPR) was brought up by Hammer, which aims at reengineering processes throughout in order to make a dramatic improvement on organization performance. The purpose of this essay is discuss a statement of â€Å"Total Quality Management and Continuous Improvement, properly applied, render BPR unnecessary†, and support or against it by effective evidence and give a certain conclusion according to a series of findings. 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