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Implementing TQM for library services : the issues. (Record no. 45335)

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100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name ROWLEY, Jennifer
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Implementing TQM for library services : the issues.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1996
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Defines TQM, and presents the main elements. Explores some of the issues that need to be addressed if TQM is to be successfully implemented, viz: defining quality; clarifying customers; establishing quality as a strategic issue; organizational structure; organizational culture; and, human resource management. Notes that all services present particular problems in relation to quality management because of their inherent characteristics intangibility, perishability, simultaneity and heterogeneity. On the other hand there is an increasing focus on the importance of the quality of the service.
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Time/date of action 3/7/00
Action agent M2LMGR
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