The firm, considered to be a unitary system, disposes of a functioning mechanism defined by a few characteristics, which include: - it is a unitary ensemble with an established juridical regime and a certain functional autonomy; - it has specific in and out parameters; - it is capable of...

Managers of any organization exercising the functions of management, organization, coordination, training and control in different areas, which generally are called functions of the organization. Management of SMEs differ from the management in the large companies both in the way of exercising...

All aspects of Lean Management presented in this paper have attempted to show the size of an approach of the industrial performance in European companies. The myth created by the results in Japanese car companies Toyota has attracted the interest of many authors to this management system. In...

When defining a maintenance policy, it must be held in mind the fact that there isn’t such a thing like “good maintenance policy” in itself; instead, for each industrial equipment should be adapted a particular maintenance method, coming to a technical-economic compromise through its...

In the early twentieth century, the Taylor model improved, in a spectacular maner the efficiency of the production processes. This allowed obtaining high productivity by low-skilled workers, but used in large number in the execution of production. Currently this model is questioned by experts...