THE COMPLEXITY OF LEAN

Today, lean is a popular research field. Nothing proves its popularity better than the fact that it is now used not only at production companies, but also at service companies, and its appearance in office environments is getting more and more common. Lean is an extremely complex field of science, as it is composed of many disciplines: innovation, change management, organizational development, process management, quality management, knowledge management. The aim of our study was to explain these statements concerning the majority of the listed areas in a proof. During research, our main goal was to find out how employees relate to continuous developments.