Chapter 1. History of Lean Management -- Chapter 2. Lean Management Principles -- Chapter 3. Overview of Small and Medium Enterprises -- Chapter 4. Generic Framework for Lean implementation -- Chapter 5. Commencing the Lean Journey - Diagnosis -- Chapter 6. Designing the Lean Intervention &...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine leadership styles at each hierarchic level that best support the LM implementation process in a given company. Design/methodology/approach To achieve that, the authors propose a method that combines information from two sources in three major...