Abstract In recent years, organizational innovation is becoming increasingly important as a means of survival, not just for growth, but also in facing of intensifying competition and environmental uncertainty. Organizational innovation has been considered to be one of the key success factors. On the other hand, over the last two decades, many organizations around the world have adopted Total Quality Management (TQM). It is convinced that TQM is a management philosophy, which is a better way to conduct business and results in higher quality, lower cost products and services that respond faster to the needs of the customer. The relationship between organizational innovation, TQM and organizational effectiveness was studied. The China Steel Corporation (CSC) ,which is a leading steel making company in Taiwan, was chosen to be the research object. The aim of this research is to study following items: 1. To realize CSC employees¡¦ cognition and attitude about the Innovations and TQM activities which have been promoted and /or adopted by the company many years. 2. To analyze the relationship between Innovations, TQM and organizational effectiveness. By doing this study, some results are expected to be referenced by CSC and also for other companies. The results are follows¡G 1. Basically, CSC employees have good cognition toward TQM in CSC¡Aand also convince that it has a high correlation with organizational effectiveness . 2. Regarding Innovations practices, there exist high correlation coefficient between technological innovation and administrative innovation. 3. All the Critical Factors have high correlation with organizational effectiveness, especially ¡§ people management¡¨. 4. The correlation between organizational innovations, TQM and organizational effectiveness are confirmed to be significant. And the Adoption of TQM can intensify the Innovations practices and then increasing organizational effectiveness. Keywords¡Gorganizational innovation, total quality management, organizational effectiveness.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-231). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2009. / Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed January 13, 2010) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D.Com.(Human Resources Management))--University of Pretoria, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-315).

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1981.

Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Peninsula Technikon, 2002. / Word processed copy. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-68). Also available online.

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

Not available / text