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The purpose of this study is to explore the association between total quality management (TQM) and green manufacturing practices (GMP).

The study used a rigorous methodology to investigate the association between TQM and GMP in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in Bengaluru, India. A questionnaire method was used in this research. Data were collected from 448 participants working in SMEs in Bengaluru. Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach’s alpha values are used to validate the instrument, and the structural equation modelling (SEM) is used to check the relationship between TQM and green manufacturing.

SEM confirmed a significant and positive association among TQM and GMP. The identified factors within TQM, including customer focus (CF), human resource management, information and analysis, leadership styles, process management and strategic planning (SP), highlighted the multifaceted nature of TQM practices influencing green manufacturing. Factors identified within GMP included green management, green process and green production. These factors represent key dimensions in the adoption of environmentally accountable manufacturing practices.

The findings suggest that assimilating environmental sustainability into quality management frameworks, particularly in areas such as leadership, SP and CF, can catalyze the adoption of GMP initiatives in SMEs.

This study’s originality lies in its association of TQM and GMP in SMEs located in Bengaluru, India. The comprehensive validation process, identification of specific TQM and GMP factors and practical implications contribute to the unique insights presented, making it a distinctive contribution to the field.

Informal settlements are frequently located in hazardous areas with a high risk of natural disasters. Upgrading informal settlements can be difficult due to the time and expense needed to complete the process. This chapter advocates using a management framework of public services in informal settlements. In doing so, it addresses 17 of the 17 UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). The study reviewed the literature to investigate current ways of managing environmental enterprises in informal settlements in South Africa. Thereafter, the challenges of managing public services were explored, and a conceptual framework for managing public services by social enterprises in such communities was developed. The chapter found that environmental enterprises are classified as ‘green spaces’ and infrastructure, water and sanitation services, energy systems, and recycling initiatives. Essential aspects of sustainable community-based facilities management (SCbFM) for managing public services are maintenance, governance, community project management, environment service delivery, service performance, governance, community project management, environment service delivery, service performance, well-being and health and safety, disaster management, and finance. Some of the problems of managing public services in informal settlements include the limited skills of managers, the focus of government on new projects rather than managing existing projects, not choosing the right indicators to measure service performance, and limited guidelines for the health and safety of managers and disaster management. Thus, a new conceptual framework was needed and developed based on the principles of social capital and capability for managing services in informal settlements in South Africa.

Thinking with Bourdieu’s field theory, this chapter critically examines how corporatised multi-academy trust (MAT) governance has secured parental engagement as a corporate activity to acquire, regulate and naturalise parents, strengthening the position of the organisation and those leading and governing in the MAT. The embodiment of corporate practice within the field has ensured that the ways of thinking, being and doing of institutions and those that govern them, both secure and are secured by recognition of corporate practices as ‘natural’ and legitimate. I make both a theoretical and empirical contribution to the field. First, theoretically, I contribute to Bourdieu’s field theory by extending it to include how corporate practices diminish the agency of parents in dominated positions in the field, in that parents are acquired, regulated and naturalised to secure the field’s logic of practice. Second, I make an empirical contribution to the arguments concerned with the position and stance of actors in a corporatised field with the reframing of parental engagement as a corporate activity concerned with acquisition stability. Further these arguments empirically contribute to the literature concerned with the positioning of parental engagement in a corporatised field providing a model that allows for critical analysis of educational leaderships engagement with parents in a corporatised field. In making this contribution, I offer a model to explain the corporatised framing of parental engagement as it seeks to acquire, regulate and naturalise the practices of parents in their engagement with the MAT and its schools.

The main goal of this study is to investigate the impact of total quality management (TQM) on the three pillars (economic, environmental and social) of sustainable performance in the Palestinian construction industry. More specifically, it first assesses the current implementation levels of TQM practices and the socio-economic and environmental sustainable performance metrics in the industry. Then, it specifies the correlational relationship between the implementation of the TQM practices and the sustainable performance in the construction industry in Palestine.

To this end, a quantitative research approach via a self-administered questionnaire approach was adopted, where six TQM practices have been obtained from the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA), with some adjustments made in accordance with their importance in the literature review. The targeted population is the construction firms in Palestine, where the data have been obtained from a sample of 66 supervisor engineers working in these firms through a quantitative questionnaire. Regarding the analysis of the conceptual framework and testing the proposed hypotheses, the structural equation modeling (SEM) has been adopted through Smart-PLS software.

The results indicate a positive and significant relationship between TQM practices and sustainable performance. More specifically, it has been found the levels of implementation of TQM practices and sustainable performance metrics were moderate. Also, it has been revealed that TQM practices positively impact the economic, environmental and social sustainable performance in the Palestinian construction industry.

Investigating the impact of TQM on sustainable performance in this unique challenging context provides a set of valuable implications that extend existing theories and practical guidelines for practitioners and policy makers in the construction industry. More specifically, the study highlights the TQM theory by proving its applicability and effectiveness in conflict-influenced and resource-limited contexts. It also contributes to the sustainable performance theory by integrating the three pillars of sustainable performance in the construction industry in a developing country. Practically, the study offers different stakeholders in this industry with practical actions and insights to facilitate the implementation of TQM to enhance sustainable performance.

This research bridges the gap between TQM and the three pillars of sustainable performance, especially in the construction industry in a developing country context with a unique particularity represented by complicated political instability, never-ending conflict and constrained-resources scarcity and access. This research also supports the TQM advocate’s argument that effective TQM deployment can dramatically improve sustainable organizational performance. Additionally, to the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first study that addresses the impact of TQM and sustainable performance in the Palestinian construction industry and the one that adopted the PLS-SEM approach for analysis.

In this chapter, we draw on trans-informed theoretical frameworks to provide insights into gender justice and gender democratization in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Our purpose is to illuminate the systemic impact of cisgenderist and cissexist beliefs which refer to the legitimation of birth-assigned gender identity and what this means for embracing a critical project of gender expansiveness in the ECEC classroom. More broadly, we explicate how our engagement with trans studies informs a critique of existing debates about masculinities, boys and male teachers in the early years. We draw on the work of trans scholars in the first part of this chapter to ground an epistemological basis for our understanding of gender expansiveness and masculinities that challenges a cisnormative framing of gender justice in ECEC. In the second part, we draw specifically on scholars in the field who have been pivotal in elaborating what we understand to be gender expansive identities and what this means for thinking about gender justice in the early childhood classroom. In the third part, we reflect on the pedagogical implications of boyhood sissiness through a trans-informed lens and explicate its implications for understanding boys and masculinities in the early years. Finally, we draw on transgender studies-informed perspectives on masculinity which call for ‘de-essentializ[ing] masculinity as grounded in a cis-male body’ (Gottzén & Straube, 2016, p. 217) and explore their implications for re-envisioning masculinities as a gender-transformative project in ECEC.

Autoethnography as a methodology has proved increasingly attractive to higher education researchers in recent years, particularly those in marginalized positions. This article examines the extant research literature, focusing on the origins and meaning of the approach, how it has been applied in practice and the issues and critiques that have been raised. It concludes that collaborative forms of autoethnography probably offer the best way forward.

It is generally agreed that sport development in South Korea has shown a stepwise process of its policy sector formation from elite sport, sport for all, sport industry, and school sport since the 1960s. This chapter aims to examine the historical and institutional features of sport development in South Korea. The primary focus is given to developing conceptual understandings of the identified features of sport development since the governmental involvement in sport development was initiated in the early 1960s. The organizing aspects of national sport policy are strategically investigated to provide analytical resources for mapping the historical and institutional features of sport development. The notion of policy paradigm is utilized to articulate a series of stepwise formation of sport policy subfields. Finally, paradigm shifts in sport policy are discussed for their congruence with the nation's broader political and economic contexts: industrialization, democratization, and globalization.

Practitioners and academics have recently put a lot of emphasis on studying and improving how likely an organization will be successful in the long run. A company's capacity to thrive, excel and gain a competitive edge in today's market is increasingly dependent on the company's ability to adopt and successfully execute sustainable practices. The aim of this paper is to take a critical look at the relationship between total quality management (TQM) practices and business sustainability in the hospitality industry, with a focus on the hospitality sector; to evaluate the role of perceived organizational support (POS) and sustainable behavior in promoting long-term success and to make some suggestions for how these practices could be put into place.

The data used were randomly collected from 361 hotel employees, covering both the five-star and four-star hotels. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyze the data. With the use of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), the heuristic model was tested.

The results show that putting TQM practices into place leads to better company performance, higher productivity and steady growth for the business. In addition, empirical studies show that the link between sustainable behavior in TQM implementation and a sustainable company is strong, especially when coming to better governance and sustainability related to employees.

This paper offers guidelines for gauging employee's opinions of an organization's long-term viability. A two-factor model has been used to measure the sustainability of an organization and possible factors that can aid effective implementation of TQM practices have been suggested.

There is increasing recognition of the organizational support for successful TQM implementation, while yearning toward sustainability. Within the context of the hospitality industry, no previous research has empirically examined the synergistic moderating effect of POS and sustainable behavior on the relationship between TQM and sustainability.