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Quality management and employee commitment illustrated with examples from Dutch health care
1Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Purpose:
To assess the relationship between quality management and employee commitment.
Design/Methodology/Approach:
Analysis of the state of affairs with respect to (T)QM programs in The Netherlands based on the literature and interviews with key informants.
Findings:
Description of an approach that tries to integrate employee commitment and quality management based on the concept of employees' psychological contracts with their organization (ideas about mutual obligations between them and their employer).
Research Limitations/Implications:
The interviews with key informants provide limited information: the study is done in only one country. Research in a broader context and on a larger scale would give a more general overview.
Practical Implications:
The crucial factor in making quality management work can better be described by "quality fails when employees' psychological contracts are neglected" than by "quality fails when the system fails".
Originality/Value:
This paper highlights the essential relationship between quality management and employee commitment and offers suggestions on how to approach this issue.
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