Concepts of Kaizen management, Kaizen is not usually a remarkable
incident. However, innovation is a one-shot
Kaizen is a Japanese word meaning continuous improvement, and its consequences are often
improvement. It is made up of two characters which are problematic. While the kaizen process, which is based
"kai", meaning "change," and "zen," meaning "good." It on common sense, low-cost approaches, and low-risk
is used to describe a company culture where everyone, approaches, guarantees gradual progress that pays off
from the CEO to the front desk clerk, regularly evaluates over time.
his work and thinks of ways to improve it. The concept
is that small steps on a customary basis will lead to large There are two types of Kaizen which are Gemba (actual
improvements in due course. Kaizen entails relatively workplace) kaizen and Teian (plan) kaizen. Gemba and
little expense. teian kaizen both intend to develop higher production
and quality standards. Gemba kaizen is an action-
Kaizen originated in Japan as a result of World War II. oriented approach and refers to improvement activities
Ironically, it evolved in part from American business that are carried out in the actual workplace like on the
leaders like Dr. W. Edwards Deming, who came to help shop floor or on the manufacturing line. Gemba kaizen
restore the country. It was first introduced by a 1951 involves all aspects of daily work that can be improved.
training film created by the American Economic and The heart of gemba kaizen lies in small changes that will
Scientific Section (ESS), although Dr. Deming is largely transform the overall success of the company not
credited for instituting the principles of Kaizen in Japan. automatically right away but in the long run. Gemba
Kaizen's elimination of waste through the maintenance kaizen methods are quality circles and suggestion
and improvement of processes became fundamental to systems. In quality circles, a specialized team develops
Japanese management philosophy. It has since and designs ideas concerning how to improve the
stretched around the world to companies and company's performance. Suggestion systems encourage
organizations wishing to follow the success of Japanese employees to submit suggestions for improving work
businesses. processes and customer satisfaction. Teian kaizen, on
Toyota is known as the initial company that started the other hand, represents a theory based approach
Kaizen. The application that Toyota used was called and refers to strategic improvements that are
"Toyota Production System", where all line personnel is prejudiced by top management. Here, the
expected to discontinue their moving production line in implementation of the latest processes and practices
the case of any irregularity, and suggestions for plays the most dominant role. The overall goals of teian
improvement are awarded reward. They succeeded in kaizen are improved business and manufacturing
eradicating all the waste. Kaizen is used to replace the practices. The most prominent teian kaizen methods
terms productivity, total quality control (TQC), zero include total quality control and just-in-time
defects (ZD), and just-in-time (JIT). Therefore, Kaizen is management.
the main concept for all these practices.
A lot of people have misunderstood Kaizen. People have
the stereotype that Kaizen can make dramatically
changed immediately and bring profits right away.
However, this is not true. Improvements under Kaizen
are small and incremental, but the Kaizen will bring
huge results over time. Japanese management and
Western management are different in the concept of
management. Westerm management, they are inclined
to focus on the worship of innovations which is pretty
much relying on the changes in technological
breakthroughs. On the other hand, for Japanese
