Applying Total Quality Management Tools Using QFD at Higher Education Institutions in Gulf Area  (Case Study: ALHOSN University)

Adnan Al-Bashir

doi:10.4995/ijpme.2016.4599

Authors

Adnan Al-Bashir The Hashemite University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4995/ijpme.2016.4599

Keywords:

Quality function Deployment, Higher education, Total Quality Management

Abstract

Human power’s quality plays the key role in the growth and development of societies where the quality of human powers can be enriched with the high quality education provided by the higher education institutions. The higher education institutions are hereby an important sector of any society since it defines the overall quality of human lives. This research will investigate the application of Total Quality Management (TQM) tools at the higher education institutions; specifically at ALHOSN University. In this study five tools were implemented at ALHOSN University’s engineering college including: Quality Function Deployment, Affinity Diagrams, Tree Diagrams, Pareto Charts, and Fishbone Diagrams. The research will reveal that the implementation of TQM tools has a great benefit for higher education institutions where they have uncovered many area of potential improvement as well as the main causes of some of the problems the Faculty of Engineering is facing. Also, it will show that the implementation of TQM tools on higher education institution systems will enhance the performance of such institutions.

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Author Biography

Adnan Al-Bashir, The Hashemite University

Industrial Engineering Department

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