Conflicts between quality management methods

Development and employment of quality management methods contributed substantially to the competitive capacity of products. Nowadays, each employee of an organization should know quality management methods, otherwise organization management cannot achieve its optimal effectiveness. Experience of long-term employment of quality management methods resulted in development and enhancement of the methods, their adaptation to modern production and even their integration into equipment. But the large number of methods leads to the increased requirements to them. One should be aware that methods are limited in their application and efficiency and can be mutually conflicting. In fact, we can speak about competitiveness of methods. Since a manager has limited time and resources, he/she cannot apply all the methods simultaneously and should make the right choice. To choose an appropriate method, one should be aware of the advantages of a method, as well as of possible conflicts which its use can cause.