different between productivity vs kaizen

English

Etymology

productive +? -ity

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??d?k?t?v?ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?o?d?k?t?v?ti/

Noun

productivity (usually uncountable, plural productivities)

1. the state of being productive, fertile or efficient
2. the rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers

3. the rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land

Synonyms

• productiveness (much less common)

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (kaizen ????), from Middle Chinese ?? (kój-d?jén) (compare Mandarin g?ishàn ??), from Old Chinese ?? (*q???-?en? "to correct errors"), from ? ("to change") + ? ("good").

Introduced to English in 1959 by Boyé Lafayette De Mente in his book Japanese Etiquette and Ethics in Business.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka??z?n/, /?ka??z?n/

Noun

kaizen (countable and uncountable, plural kaizens)

1. A Japanese business practice of continuous improvement in performance and productivity.
2. (by extension) Continuous improvement generally. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

kaizen (third-person singular simple present kaizens, present participle kaizening, simple past and past participle kaizened)

1. (transitive, business) To apply continuous improvement to (a task, or the worker who performs it).

See also

• quality circle

Japanese

Romanization

kaizen

1. R?maji transcription of ????