Total Quality Management (TQM) Practices toward Product Quality Performance: Case at Food and Beverage Industry in Makassar, Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to test and analyze the effect of TQM practices impelementation which consists of leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, information and analysis, people management, and process management to product quality performance.The population were 108 food and beverage companies in Makassar, Indonesia.Respondents are production managers or operation managers.Sample technique which used is population sampling.Method of analysis which use both descriptive statistic and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM).Data processing uses two statistic tools i.e: IBM SPSS and AMOS 19.00.The findings of research indicate that leadership has significant effect on product quality performance, strategic planning has significant effect on product quality performance, customer focus has significant effect on product quality performance, information and analysis has significant effect on product quality performance, people management has significant effect on product quality performance, and process management has significant effect on product quality performance.Leadership factor has dominant effect on product quality performance (critical ratio = 9.760 > t-table = 1.960; and probability = 0.000 < α = 0.05).

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