5-S practice: a new tool for industrial management

It has been recognised that Japanese firms are clean and orderly. The same is true for high quality Western firms. Over the last two decades, the Japanese have formalised the technique and named it as 5-S practice. They believe that it is the base-line for industrial management. As the name is new t...

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Published in:Industrial management + data systems 1998-01, Vol.98 (2), p.55-62
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Business
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Cleaning
Communities
Governments
Industrial efficiency
Industrial engineering
Industrial management
Management
Methods
Names
Organizational behavior
Productivity
Sports & recreation clubs
Studies
Supermarkets
Theory X
Theory Y
Theory Z
Workshops
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