TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN MINERAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

A modern management technique that can lead to achieving corporate excellence in both services and products in the Solid Minerals Sector of the Nigerian economy, is Total Quality Management. This concept encourages organizational excellence by continuously meeting agreed customer requirements at lowest cost using the potentials of all employees. The study has identified this new management philosophy as the most important management technique capable of drastically minimizing or eliminating such impediments associated with mineral investment in Nigeria such as poor funding, unfavorable government policy/implementation, inadequate technological transfer, inadequate technological development, inadequate infrastructural development and low capacity utilization of mining/mineral processing industries. The study has shown how the entire mineral sector comprising the Federal Ministry of Solid Mineral Development, Federal Government Parastatals, and the organized private sector of mineral inv...