YANG WANG, ABULIMITI MAYILA, WENZHEN SHI & TAKASHI KONDOH

Japanese Total Quality Management (TQM) is famous all over the world, and has especial impact on the Chinese factory. China has been introduced and carried out the technique and management of Japanese TQM. But the level of quality of production is not satisfactory in China. Although it has been implemented the same techniques and philosophy of quality management, there still is a gap of quality of production between Japan and China. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reasons why the production of quality is not good in China from the view of problem consciousness. The authors conducted a questionnaire targeting Chinese employees working in China's manufacturing industry and analyzed the factors that impacted the problem consciousness of quality management. As the result, we revealed that the problem consciousness of the employees in China's manufacturing industry is the cause of the gap.