Accession Number:

ADA280486

Title:

Total Quality Leadership Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities for Surface Warfare Officers

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Black, III, Eugene H.

Report Date:

1994-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

100.0

Abstract:

The purpose of this thesis was to determine the Total Quality Leadership TQL knowledge, skills, and abilities KSA that surface warfare officers will require to serve in leadership positions at sea. The study defined the TQL responsibilities that surface warfare officers will probably have during their careers in order to determine the TQL KSAs they will require. An analysis of current Navy TQL course material revealed that the KSAs being taught placed a heavy emphasis on technical skills when compared with the skills of civilian quality managers. The civilian quality managers skills and traditional leadership skills of surface warfare officers showed a fair degree of commonality in terms of the interpersonal relations, which appeared to be lacking in the Navy TQL courses. Recommendations were made to enhance the interpersonal skills in present TQL course material and to incorporate TQL into the Surface Warfare Officer School Command curricula in order to achieve a TQ critical mass in the surface warfare community. Total quality leadership, Surface warfare officer, TQL Knowledge, Skills and abilities.

Descriptors:

• *CAREERS
• *COURSES(EDUCATION)
• *OFFICER PERSONNEL
• *TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
• WARFARE
• NAVAL TRAINING
• HUMAN RELATIONS
• INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
• LEADERSHIP
• MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
• SKILLS
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management
• Humanities and History
• Personnel Management and Labor Relations
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE