A study of the total quality management status and presenting a proper procedure to improve it in Tabriz medical sciences university

Present research has been done to Study the Total Quality Management (TQM) status and presenting proper procedures to improve it in Tabriz Medical Sciences University. The methodology of the research is descriptive-survey and its aim is functional. The statistical population included all managers in the Educational & Research department, Treatment Department, Faculties & educational hospitals of Medical Sciences University which added to 300 people. The statistical sample size according to Morgan table, was 169 people. Data gathering was done by researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire, confirmed by the ideas of supervisor and advisor professor, the reliability using cronbach’s alpha was 0.96. Factor analysis was also used to classify the questions and the amount of KMO = 0.91 was greater than 0.5, so the number of samples were good to perform factor analysis. Descriptive statistics was used. To respond the questions and inferential statistics t-test, one-way (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation was used to test hypotheses. The results showed that the status of components of total quality management at the University of Medical Sciences is moderate. The results of tests also, showed that there wasn’t significant relationship among the educational administrators in terms of gender, degree, field of study, work experience, management experience, and academic rank and position. But TQM regarding the managers, work position showed significant difference. As TQM in Education Development Centre (EDC) got the highest value.