An organization through the alignment of teams brings in a powerful impact in organization processes. This directly controls the variance in outputs at every stage resulting significant improvement in sigma level. This approach of TQM ensures an improvement in quality output.

TQM also supports the formation of teams on different levels. Generally, there are three teams, top management, middle management and shop floor teams. Every team has a team leader as a rule. The team leader from each level is also a part of the next higher-level team.  This practice provides an organized structure in which there is effective communication both, vertically and horizontally.

The concept of through the organization. The expectations of the organization are conveyed by the top having team leaders as a part of the next level team is referred to as “Overlapping teams”. In the implementation of TQM in an organization it is required that all activities are communicated -down approach. This leads to clear definition of communication within and across teams.  

An organization thrives on the efforts of its people, people that work in teams towards accomplishing a common goal. The goals can differ between organizations but to realize the goal with collective effort is very essential to achieve productivity, efficiency and operational excellence.