LEAN MANAGEMENT AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTERPRISES

The aim of the paper is to present the philosophy of Lean Management as an instrument of improving sustainable man-agement of enterprises. The article presents the origins, characteristics of the broadly understood concept of Lean Man-agement and describes the idea of Sustainable Development (SD). At the same time implications for the application and development of the instruments which operationalize the assumptions of SD at the level of enterprises are discussed. The paper specifies those areas of functioning of contemporary companies in which Lean Management can be imple-mented and compares them with the features of traditional management in particular subjects