The Spirituality of Solidarity and Total Quality Management

Nothing new is said when one notes the increasing popularity of Total Quality Management in American business. What is new, however, is the idea that TQM reflects a managerial recognition of and is productively maintained by the inculcation of a theology of work, particularly the principle of solidarity. I will argue that solidarity's understanding that the self is understood in terms of interconnected ness with others (rather than in terms of narrow material or political aggrandizement) is a central moral wisdom that makes TQM effective. Such a broadened notion of self-interest has held that there is a direct