LEAN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AS AN EXAMPLE OF A POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
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https://doi.org/10.12775/JPM.2014.007Keywords
Lean organizational culture, Lean Management, attributes of Lean culture, Lean culture measurementAbstract
In this article the attributes of Lean organizational culture, as an example of a positive organizational culture, are presented. It accompanies applying the concept of Lean Management on a high professional level in a company. An additional goal of the article is to describe the ways of this culture’s creation in a company, together with the author’s original tool to measure it. As a lot of empirical research proves, Lean Management and thus Lean organizational culture positively contribute to the increase of competitiveness level of a contemporary enterprise and its economic and fi nancial performance.References
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