Progress on the journey to total quality management: using the Myers-Briggs type indicator and the adjective check list in management development.

From: Public Personnel Management | Date: September 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The objective of this paper is to describe and assess a management development process utilized in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a public sector agency that has implemented Total Quality Management (TQM). The program described in this paper is unique to the Richmond District where the facilitator was qualified to enhance the process used in other offices by adding the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(1) and The Adjective Check List.(2) This paper is based on three premises. It is feasible for agencies, i.e., public bureaucracies, to implement the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) ...

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