This paper presents an analysis of two American and Japanese management strategies, the reengineering and Kaizen … as cost, quality, service and speed. Kaizen is a philosophy of life that addresses to the best who want to be more and … shown that progress in small steps, but fast, reliable and leads to long-term wins. Kaizen method, implemented in Romania …

Investigates what approaches to quality lead to best quality and financial performance across different regions of the … correlated to each quality measure, as well as to several financial measures. The results suggest that a company’s approach to … quality correlates to actual quality and to a lesser extent to financial performance. The major factors found to influence …

programmes to improve quality. Many times these programmes are not focused on what can be accomplished, since each company is at … different stages in its quality development. Examines these development stages of quality management, so that manufacturers can …The most important issue facing manufacturers is maintaining the improving product quality, since quality is related to …

Quality management practices do support the management of strategically important innovation processes. This conclusion … the management of strategic innovation. It also indicates that systems and goal practices in quality management can be … intensively studied during a three‐year period. The quality management practices that are used in this project to support the …

strategic planning process and have characterized the ongoing improvement strategies of quality focusing on the Kaizen strategy …In this work we have approached aspects on the strategic process of continuous improvement of quality processes … change in attitude, in thinking, in quality culture and supposes a focus on the strategic planning.We have presented the …

concerning the importance of Lean Management method in the current context of evolution of an organization. With roots … in the just in time method, Lean Management model focuses on the process of changes evolving and adapting to them and …. I have also presented the relationship between Lean Management method and the human factor as a determinant in forming …

prerequisites and potential success of the company and, among other things, diagnostic studies. Next, we insisted on a strategy of … continuous improvement, such as a strategy of companies in Romania, in terms of a lack of financial resources for most companies …. This strategy promotes the idea of stepless change, with minimum cost and effort, continues with a maximum exploitation of …

performance at work. The findings show that a high proportion of those interviewed reported working longer than their contractual …‐determined goals. Managers tended to be unhappy about the poor relationship between their work effort and their performance outputs … implications for quality of service and standards of work.  …