The focus of this study is to examine the importance and effectiveness of lean management and employee satisfaction towards customer satisfaction. The simplified and standardization of processes lean management able to eliminate unnecessary workload and increases employee satisfaction that lead to resulting positive customer satisfaction for organization. This study also designed to fulfil the previous research gap by analyze the capability of lean management and employee satisfaction towards establishing customer satisfaction in healthcare industry. Based on previous literature review, this study derived two proposition which are lean management is positively related to customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction is positively related to customers satisfaction.
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