Go to the text Web site at www.cengage.com/accounting/vanderbeck and click on the link to ‘‘kaizen,’’ from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. After reading the entry, answer the following questions:

1. What is the meaning of kaizen?

2. What is the goal of kaizen?

3. What was the basis of the ‘‘kaizen revolution’’ that took place in Japan in the 1950s?

4. How does kaizen differ from the ‘‘command and control’’ improvement programs of the mid-twentieth century?

5. How does the Toyota Production System apply kaizen to its production operations?