A statistical analysis of the relationship between total quality management and innovation

Businesses, today, compete with their rivals not only at a single point; but also make the appropriate and high quality production with the changing business conditions by following the customer?s requests. In doing so, errors must be prevented and taken precaution not to repetition. Thus, the damage of inaccurate production will decrease minimum level. At the same time technological developments must be taken as an advantage, and business keep up with the times by renewing themselves and process. In order for all this, they need total quality management (TQM) and innovation practices.To perform TQM and innovation practices is important and strategical decision. Business must learn the attributes of two methods before take the decision. The purpose of this study, to determine the relationship between the TQM and innovation method. In other words, busineses which perform TQM determine whether the transition to innovation practices easier or not. A surwey prepared after as a result of the literature review was posted small, medium and large businesses on net and analyzed. Accordingly, a positive and significant relationship was deduced between TQM and innovation.