تطبيقات فلسفة كايزن : خارطة طريق لجودة أعمال مؤسسات التعليم العالي السعودي

Abstract EN

This study aims to construct a solid literature review-base focuses mainly on the recent implications of Kaizen philosophy in an academic realm and to support the main actors and regulators of the Saudi higher educational institutions along with other researchers, educationalists, and practitioners.

The researcher employed systematic-literature-review method within a timeframe of five years –(2015-2020).

The chosen literature directly focuses on the implications of Kaizen Philosophy in this sector.

The findings incorporate that : 1) Kaizen emerged as a salient enabler to continuingly improve the educational outputs and to sharpen the level of providing educational services ; 2) Kaizen employed even outside of the advanced western universities but there are very few studies revealed its implications in the higher educational institutions of Middle-East in general and in the Kingdom of Saudi in particular; 3) there is an urgent need for further empirical research studies to reveal if any utilizations of Kaizen in these social frameworks ; 4) the vast number of the reviewed studies demonstrate a singular research methods and limited data samples.

Furthermore, it concludes with implications and recommendations for the regulators of the Saudi higher educational businesses.

To the knowledge of researcher, this is the first literature review of the implications of Kaizen conducted in Arabic Language.