THE APPLICATION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGER TECHNIQUES IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR OF NIGERIA ECONOMY.

ABSTRACT The eminence of total quality management in the business organization in Emenite has remained important, more so in this period of economic retrogression and the structural adjustment programme (SAP) which has witnessed an upsurge in the business of total quality management. Therefore total quality management is an unavoidable element in an organization.  The work has been divided into five chapters. Chapter one deals on the introduction, background of the study which consists of the overview of manufacturing sector of Nigeria economy, history of Emenite limited Emene, statement of the problems, research objective, research questions, significant of the study, scope and limitation and definition of terms. Chapter two deals with the review of the relevant literature which looked at the historical background Emenite limited,. Theoretical framework, method and implementation of total quality management, quality assurance, quality system, characteristics/principles of total quality management, the roles, benefit of quality central and the summary of the review of the related literature. Chapter three deals with the research design and methodology. In this chapter various sources of data, questionnaire design how the sample size was determined and method of investigation are discussed. Chapter four was devoted to a detail analysis of data collected and the research questions generated. Chapter five is the concluding chapter in which the findings, recommendations and conclusion are discussed.
TABLE OF CONTENT COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE CERTIFICATION DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGMENT ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.2STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1.3OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY 1.4RESEARCH QUESTION 1.5SIGNIFICANT OF THE PROBLEM 1.6SCOPE AND OF LIMITATION 1.7DEFINITION OF TERM REFERENCE
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1INTRODUCTION 2.2HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF EMENIT LIMITED 2.3THEORITICAL FRAME WORK 2.4 METOD AND IMPLEMENTATION TQM 2.5QUALITY ASSURANCE 2.6 QUALITY SYSTEM 2.7CHARACTERISTICS/PRINCIPLES OF TQM 2.8THE ROLES OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT 2.9BENEFITS OF QUALITY CONTROL 2.10SUMMARY OF THE REVIEW OF THE REALTED LITERATURE REFEENCES
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS 3.1INTRODUCTION 3.2METHOD AND SOURCES OF DATA 3.3RESEARCH POPULATION 3.4SAMPLE SIZE DETERMINATION 3.5THE VALIDATION OF MEASURING INSTRURMENT 3.6METHOD OF INVESTIGATION 3.7DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES 3.8RELIABILITY OF INSTRUMENT REFERENCES
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS 4.1QUESTIONNAIRES DISTRIBUTION AND COLLECTION 4.2PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATION AND  CONCLUSION 5.1SUMMERY OF FINDINGS 5.2RECOMMENDATION 5.3CONCLUSION
APPENDIX I APPENDIX II QUESTIONNAIRES BIBLIOGRAPHY