- Lack of faith in and support to Quality Circle activities among management personnel
- Lack of interest or incompetence of leaders/facilitator
- Apathy, fear and misunderstanding among middle level executives
- Delay or non-implementation of Circle recommendations
- Irregularity of Quality Circle activities
- Non-application of simple techniques for problem solving
- Lack of or non-participation by some members in the Circle activities
- Circles running out of problems
- Antagonism of non-members towards Quality Circle operations
- Inadequate visibility of management support
- Complexity of problems taken up
- Non-maintenance of Quality Circle records
- Too much facilitation or too little
- Language difficulty in communication
- Communication gap between Circles and departmental head
- Change of management
- Confusing Quality Circle for another technique
- Resistance from trade unions