The impact of lean management on organizational creativity A field study at the General Company for Food Products in Baghdad
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https://doi.org/10.31272/jae.i138.1111Keywords:
Lean Management, Organizational CreativityAbstract
The study aimed to identify the role that Lean management plays in achieving organizational creativity, in addition to knowing the availability of the components of Lean management (continuous improvement, standard work, Six Sigma) and renewing the extent of its ability to achieve administrative creativity in its various dimensions (susceptibility to change, encouragement of creativity and sensitivity to problems, And knowing the suitability of this method to work, and the study concluded that lean management has a major role in achieving organizational creativity for organization. In the organization, and work to overcome all obstacles facing its application.
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