FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE APPLICABLITY OF KAIZEN PHILOSOPHY: IN O LEATHER AND LONDON SHOES MAKER PLC.

Abstract

Kaizen means "continuous improvement". It is a system that involves every employee. Kaizen reduces waste in areas such as inventory, waiting times, transportation, worker motion, employee skills, over production, excess quality and in processes. Kaizen improves space utilization, product quality, use of capital, communications, as well as production capacity and employee retention. The objective of this research was to assess factors affecting the applicability of Kaizen in O Leather and London Shoe maker PLC. The basic questionnaire was formulated based on senses techniques. Based on the finding, some of the factors were the lack of employee commitment, lack of department cooperation during Kaizen implementation, lack of management skills that create problems in supervision, as well as a shortage of raw materials in the required quality and quantity, absence of conducive working environment and the fact that the proposed lay out was still not fully implemented. Therefore, based on the findings the researcher has tried to provide a recommendation.