Abstract
The Environmental Management System (EMS) constitutes a fundamental pillar enabling organizations to exercise effective control over superior environmental performance by implementing objective auditing standards and providing a structured framework for their application across all operational facets, thereby ensuring full compliance with environmental legislations and regulations that align with societal expectations. Given that industrial activities are primary sources of environmental impact—through the generation of diverse gaseous, liquid, and solid pollutants—the quality of any industry remains incomplete without rigorous environmental oversight. Consequently, organizations are increasingly prioritizing Total Quality Environmental Management (TQEM), a philosophy characterized by distinct attributes that necessitate profound conceptual understanding; TQEM not only significantly reduces production and operational costs but also provides customers with environmentally and industrially superior goods and services, thereby enhancing competitive advantage, profitability, market share, and future expansion. This purely theoretical research paper aims to provide researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders with a comprehensive insight into the TQEM philosophy—encompassing its concepts, elements, tools, impacts, and implementation mechanisms—to facilitate its correct application within industrial organizations while identifying the most prominent obstacles and common errors in its proper execution.
DOI
10.33095/jeas.v14i50.1386
Subject Area
Managerial
First Page
66
Last Page
84
Recommended Citation
Al-Anzi, S. A., & Al-Obeid, A. H. (2008). The Conceptual Perspective of Total Quality Management for Environmental. Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 14(50), 66-84. https://doi.org/10.33095/jeas.v14i50.1386
