The impact of knowledge management and total quality management on staff efficiency and on the performance of the company

Today, knowledge management and total quality management are becoming necessary in all industrial fields. However, systems and management procedures are becoming increasingly complex. Thus, industrial managers encounter several difficulties, either in terms of choice, or in terms of deployment and application of performance measurement approaches and techniques adapted to their field. In this regard, this work comes to support researchers in further future studies to gain insight into the impact of knowledge management and total quality management on staff efficiency and on the performances of the company and to have the knowledge about the most commonly used approaches and methods to measure staff efficiency and company's performances. Based on the literature review and the questionnaire we did to review company's behaviors concerning our purpose and after collecting data and analyzing 50 answers from 300 companies surveyed, we did succeed to identify our hypotheses based on perceptions of managers and agents working on different services in the company. Five hypotheses are defined as: -Knowledge management has a positive Impact on staff efficiency. -Total quality management has a positive Impact on staff efficiency. -Knowledge management has a positive Impact on the performance of the company. -Total quality management has a positive Impact on the performance of the company. -Staff effectiveness has a positive Impact on the performance of the company. Hypothesis and model are made to be tested in future studies by researchers on a purpose of arriving at a scientific model eligible to be used by companies to increase their performance. Also, to help companies to build a strong work infrastructure by giving more importance to the concept of knowledge management and total quality management and by integrating the most used performance indicators based on our perceptions analyses which are: Balanced Scorecard, supply-chain operations reference and human performance improvement.