Advantages, reduces waste, promotes leadership: all employees take responsibility, increases employee motivation, Disadvantages, the impact of Kaizen fades over time, success relies on 'buying in' to the culture. It might be too much pressure for some employees, relies on the business having enough resources to make improvements, Kaizen 5s system, sort: get rid of clutter, set in order: workplace is organised, shine: all clean, standardise: displays/poster of what works well, sustain: put in place a system that locks the 4S, Techniques/practices, standardisation, teamworking, empowerment, suggestion schemes, quality circles / cell production, multiskilling, Definitions, waste: any expense or any expense or effort that is expended but which does not transform inputs into outputs., Kaizen is a Japanese term meaning continuous improvement. Traditionally applied within a business’s operations., Quality circles: small groups of workers in the same area of production who meet regularly to solve production problems., Multi-skilling: when workers are trained in a variety of skills,, cell production, where each part of the production line is divided into separate, self-contained units (e.g., in the construction of a car)..

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