Pre-assessment for tqm implementation in sepiddasht industrial group As a model of small and medium size enterprises

At the first glance seen TQM is a change in an organization’s technology and the way of doing work and their tools in organization process such a paperwork, procurement process and other procedures. But TQM is also a change in organization culture, its norms, values and behaviors. Therefore TQM is in fact a large scale systems changes and consequently large scale changes always cause many sources to resist against itself such as employees and middle managers. Therefore it is necessary to assess sources of resistance to change and ways of dealing with them in order to avoid their failure in Implementing TQM. This paper provides some check list assessments according to TQM and Deming’s principles to assess the preparation of an organization to clarify that Are they ready to implement TQM or not ? These sort of assessments has been done in Sepid Industrial Group and its subsystems has been evaluated such as Training system, employees Involvement system, performance measurement system, reward and punishment system, recruitment system and so on. that the result of that assessment will be reported.