A canonical correlation analysis was conducted using the six quality management system factors as predictors of the three organisational performance factors to evaluate the multivariate shared relationship between the two sets of factors.
The analysis yielded three functions with squared canonical correlations (R2c) of 0.377, 0.035 and 0.004 for each successive function (Appendix B). Collectively,the full model across all functions was statistically significant, explaining a portion of about 40.15% of the variance shared between the two sets of factors. Accordingly, we rejected the null hypothesis that there was no relationship between the two sets of factors (i.e., reject Rc = 0); hence, organisational
performance and quality management systems were related.