A Study on the Problem Consciousness of Japanese TQM in China

Abstract

　In the excellent industrial production system in Japan, it has been produced high-quality and high-performance products. Japanese Total Quality Management (TQM)is famous for all the world, especially, impacted on the Chinese factory. China has been introduced and carried out the technique and management of Japanese TQM. But the level of production of quality in china is not good. Although it has been implemented the same techniques and philosophy of quality management, there are still have a gap between production of quality in Japan and China. The one of the reason is to be said that the problem consciousness of TQM is different from employees to the manager. It will be explained the history and development of Japanese Total Quality Management, and also the history and development of Total Quality Management in China in the study. The authors conducted a questionnaire targeting Chinese employees working in Chinese manufacturing industry and analyzed the impact factor of the problem consciousness of quality management based on the questionnaire survey. By the result, problem consciousness of the employees has been revealed in the Chinese manufacturing industry.