A Study on the Relationship Between Total Productive Maintenance and Organizational Culture

Managers strive for the development of organizational culture in the direction of company goals. at the same time, technological improvements and global competition force companies to be more efficient. as a result, various management systems are used to imprvoe efficiency. one of these systems is total productive maintenance (tpm) developed in japan. the goal of the study is to examine the relationship between tpm and organizational culture in a production firm. data has been collected by organizational culture survey of denison and analayzed with nonparametrick wilcoxon two related- samples test. the results indicate that after tpm, the organizational culture, its dimensions, and the subdimensions except for the organizational learning has improved.