IN QUEST OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SERVICES: EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY
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https://doi.org/10.4237/gtp.v5i3.175Keywords:
Architectural Design, Total Quality Management, Implementation.Abstract
Proposal: Architectural design companies increasingly recognize that time spent on management is not at the expense of their production and there are always better ways to organize business. Although architects have long placed a traditional emphasis on quality, quality management is still a new concept for the majority of architectural design companies, which have to organize relatively more complicated operations nowadays to meet their clients’ expectations. This study aims to understand how architectural design companies define quality and explores the extent to which Total Quality Management (TQM) principles like continual improvement, employee involvement, customer satisfaction and others can be pertinent in these companies. Adopting a qualitative research strategy, the authors interviewed with the owner-managers of 10 widely-recognized architectural design companies of different size in Istanbul. The results from the content analysis of semi-structured interview data suggest that i) TQM principles cannot be directly applied in architectural design companies without an appropriate translation; ii) special characteristics of design services are important to explain quality-related perceptions of owner-managers; iii) the owner-managers feel the pressure from the changing internal and external environmental conditions, however few of them adopt a systematic and documented approach to quality management. Architectural design offices which aim to establish a quality management system can benefit from this study to understand potential problem areas on their road.Downloads
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2010-12-01
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DURMUS, Umut; TURKCU, H. Cetin; GUNAYDIN, H. Murat; ACAR, Emrah. IN QUEST OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SERVICES: EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY. Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos (Design Management and Technology), São Carlos, v. 5, n. 3, p. p. 104–120, 2010. DOI: 10.4237/gtp.v5i3.175. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/gestaodeprojetos/article/view/79520.. Acesso em: 29 jun. 2024.