TY - JOUR AB - Members of the Original Equipment Manufacturer Group (OMEG) at National Semiconductor Corporation (NSC) were used to help answer the question of whether empowerment programs, independent of quality improvement programs such as total quality management (TQM), create customer satisfaction. Results of a customer satisfaction survey, administered to a sample of NSC customers prior to implementing an empowerment program and then again one year into the program, provided affirmative support for our research question. Finally, a conceptual model suggesting a process by which empowerment programs create customer satisfaction is proposed to provide direction for future research. VL - 8 IS - 2 SN - 0960-4529 DO - 10.1108/09604529810206963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09604529810206963 AU - Gary Moore L. AU - Hopkins Willie E. AU - Hopkins Shirley A. PY - 1998 Y1 - 1998/01/01 TI - Quality and empowerment programs: dual paths to customer satisfaction? T2 - Managing Service Quality: An International Journal PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 133 EP - 141 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -