Purchase Solution

Traditional management versus quality-focused management

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

How would you comparison and contrast of traditional management styles and quality-focused management styles?

Purchase this Solution

Solution Summary

Traditional management styles and quality-focused management styles are discussed in this solution.

Solution Preview

Traditional management styles were primarily focused on efficiency and productivity. Their main motive was to maximize the revenues and profitability with sole focus on the organization itself and not its external stakeholders such as consumers. Today, with the increasing competition and concern among companies towards customer satisfaction, there has been a paradigm shift in management style that focuses more on improvement in quality of the product or service for increased customer satisfaction. This is known as total quality management of quality focused management style.

Traditional management styles had focused on the functions of organisational control, including planning, organising, staffing, directing, tasking, ...

Solution provided by:
Education
  • BCom, SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi
  • MBA, Rochester Institute of Technology
Recent Feedback
  • "Thank you. "
  • "Thank you"
  • "Thank you. I got 20/20 last week for my discussion you help me out with."
  • "Thank you. Great Job. "
  • "Thank you. Great Job. "
Purchase this Solution


Free BrainMass Quizzes
Business Ethics Awareness Strategy

This quiz is designed to assess your current ability for determining the characteristics of ethical behavior. It is essential that leaders, managers, and employees are able to distinguish between positive and negative ethical behavior. The quicker you assess a person's ethical tendency, the awareness empowers you to develop a strategy on how to interact with them.

Operations Management

This quiz tests a student's knowledge about Operations Management

Understanding Management

This quiz will help you understand the dimensions of employee diversity as well as how to manage a culturally diverse workforce.

MS Word 2010-Tricky Features

These questions are based on features of the previous word versions that were easy to figure out, but now seem more hidden to me.

Writing Business Plans

This quiz will test your understanding of how to write good business plans, the usual components of a good plan, purposes, terms, and writing style tips.