Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success

Masaaki Imai

ISBN 10: 007554332X / ISBN 13: 9780075543329

Published by McGraw-Hill Education, 1986

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G007554332XI5N00

Synopsis:

For the professional manager or student of management, a comprehensive handbook of 16 Kaizen management practices that can be put to work. KAIZEN uses more than 100 examples in action and contains 15 corporate case studies.

From Library Journal: Books about Japanese management have become kind of a cottage industry, from Theory Z ( LJ 5/1/81) to The Art of Japanese Management ( LJ 8/1/81) and The Mind of the Strategist ( LJ 6/1/82) to Kaisha: the Japanese corporation ( LJ 12/85). This volume covers some of the same groundthe current superiority of Japanese management stylebut approaches things from a different perspective. Essentially, Imai contends that the Japanese edge can be found in a philosophical orientation captured in the concept of Kaizen. Kaizen management is anchored in the notion of perpetual improvementeven if all is going well. In contrast to U.S.-style management, it takes a longer-run view and is process-oriented rather than geared to immediate results. Importantly, the Kaizen philsophy is also quantifiable , rooted in the mathematics of quality control theory. Recommended. Gene Laczniak, Coll. of Business Administration, Marquette Univ., Milwaukee
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive ...
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket