Total Dedication of the Top Management within the Macedonian Higher Education Institutions

In this paper is given integral methodology for the design of TQM (Total Quality Management) system in higher education institutions and its implementation in practice of higher education, as well as actions to be taken to build a system of quality assurance. The success of the application of TQM strategy depends on the commitment of the academic staff and administration and their motivation. Although the philosophy of total quality management (TQM) is deeply involved in many higher education institutions and business aspects of European and other countries, it is not sufficiently present in the country and other developing countries. Especially critical is the long term point of this philosophy, when results do not come “overnight”. Globalization allows creating a European area of higher education in order to facilitate joint knowledge creation and greater mobility of students and academic staff. Thus Europe has become a common space of higher education, the rules and principles designed to work together and to use the common results.