Jit/Lean Methods and Japanese Management

<p>This book presents a new approach to explaining the JIT/Lean system. JIT elements are classified into three categories: industrial engineering Japanese management and Japanese workforce-related characteristics. JIT in Japan is shown as strongly impacted by the surrounding Japanese management setting to which it has borrowed a number of its techniques.</p><p>Concerning the Japanese management its features are shown as making up a consistent system. The system is revealed as consisting of management principles or strategies. For the first time Japanese management is explained from inside but not from the social and/or cultural point of view.</p><p>Contrary to established academic management theories survey findings show that Japanese management and JIT manifest their presence fairly well (i.e. they are prefigured) in the small and mid-size enterprises.</p><p>Company executives whose companies are competing directly or indirectly against Japanese corporations; consulting firms interested in lean production methods; manufacturing company managers; management researchers educators; and students make up the different kinds of audience that will profit the most from reading and exploring the book. Besides it is a valued source of information for anyone interested in management in general and in intercultural/international management in particular.</p>