Kaizen Implementation in Improving Organizational Excellence

Studies of organizational excellence through development of many highlights of the literature shows that require further research. this is because although the topic of organizational excellence is widely discussed by researchers, especially in adopting japanese methods of management, it still has not found a concrete conclusion on the basis of islam. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between kaizen and the organizational performance from the perspective of islam and also the factors that influence an organization’s excellence. most organizations implement kaizen failure. among the reasons are cultural factors that affect the implementation of kaizen and organizational performance. this study used item response theory (1rt) to examine the level of implementation of kaizen in the malaysian automotive companies. rasch model with winsteps 3.6 software was used in this study because of its ability in interpreting and analyzing the ability of respondents in performing the difficult items. online questionnaire was distributed to 63 automotive companies selected randomly located in the northern region of malaysia. the results show that organizational culture has influenced the successful implementation of kaizen and organizational performance. therefore, implementation of kaizen in organizational culture based on islam can improve an organization’s excellence.