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TQM Indicators Implemented by Teachers of the Primary School

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In today’s era, quality has been the most vital topic of debate in education, business and government sectors. Current educational assessments have demonstrated that schools have to change themselves into quality learning association which should be organized at all levels and should recharge continuously, considering the present and future needs. Quality of teacher has been a noteworthy reason for stress in the nation and one of the essential pre-necessities to enhance quality. An urgent need towards the movement of total quality in school education should be focused. However, this research is trying to explore the relevance of TQM indicators in primary education. The present research focuses teachers’ attitude towards implementing TQM indicator in the school. Data was collected from 311 primary school teachers. Identified TQM indicators were analysed using factor analysis. The research revealed that factor analysis results identified seven factors which are sufficient to describe the TQM implementation in primary school. Thus, the contributions of this study are for the development of the education in school, to enhance the quality measurements of TQM in the education area and it may also kindle further research studies on the various challenges of quality faced by the stakeholders.

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  1. Faculty of Business Administration, GLS University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    Neha Shroff

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Kusum Deep

  2. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Madhu Jain

  3. Kent Business School, Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimization (CLHO), University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

    Said Salhi

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Shroff, N. (2019). TQM Indicators Implemented by Teachers of the Primary School. In: Deep, K., Jain, M., Salhi, S. (eds) Logistics, Supply Chain and Financial Predictive Analytics. Asset Analytics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0872-7_19

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