The Importance Of The Continuous Improvement Strategy (Kaizen) In Raising The Efficiency Of Institutional Performance In Organizations

Abstract

The study aimed to demonstrate the importance of applying the Continuous Improvement strategy (Kaizen) in raising the efficiency of Institutional Performance in organizations, and to identify the principles of applying this strategy as one of the dimensions of the Total Quality philosophy on which administrative institutions are based, to achieve high levels of Institutional Performance. The researcher relied on the descriptive approach during his presentation to a descriptive, introductory study of the study’s concepts, displaying its contents, and then analyzing them to reach the relationships that connect them to reach the possibility of testing the hypotheses and the extent of their verification within the framework of the results reached. The study concluded that Continuous Improvement strategy (Kaizen) is considered one of the dimensions of Total Quality Management, and it has a prominent role in the development of organizations, as it saves organizations from a lot of financial and material burdens, because it depends on making continuous and permanent partial improvements, and is based on specific rules, directives, standards and operational procedures. Therefore, Continuous Improvement contributes to raising the efficiency of the employees’ performance and organizational units.