TQM stands for Total Quality Management. Suggest new definition. This definition appears very frequently and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories: 1  Business, finance, etc.uring the past four years, the use of Total Quality Management programs has grown significantly, up to 39 percent in 1995, compared to 36 percent in 1994 and 23 percent in 1992.
The natural range of the giant sequoia is a narrow band along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada range, California, USA. The tree grows at high altitudes between 5,000 to 8,000 ft and only occurs naturally in about 65 to 75 disjoint groves (depending on the definition of a grove) with a total area of 36,000 acres.
Sequoia National Park is located in the county, as are part of Kings Canyon National Park, in its northeast corner (shared with Fresno County), and part of Mount Whitney, on its eastern border (shared with Inyo County). As of the 2010 census, the population was 442,179, up from 368,021 at the 2000 census.arts of the county's territory were given to Fresno County in 1856, to Kern County and to Inyo County in 1866 and to Kings County in 1893. The infectious disease Tularemia caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis is named after Tulare County.