MGT 375 5S Project The Five-S’s – Lean Practices The description of the Five-S’s (5S) is in Chapter 16 and the lecture slide decks. INSTRUCTION The 5S project should be written in Microsoft Word using Times New Roman and a 12-point font. Save your MS Word file as a PDF and submit via Canvas submission link by Thursday, March the 3rd, at 11:59 PM. This paper will have a minimum of 500 words and no more than 700 words. Use Word Count in MS Word and include your word count in your paper. Please do NOT email projects to me. E-mailed assignments/projects will NOT be accepted/graded. Late submission will not be accepted. You must submit a PDF for this assignment in Canvas. Your submission must include a cover page with your full name, class section, professor’s name, your institution, and date (in this order). The submission will be run through Turnitin OC . You are expected to run this assignment through Grammarly and you should submit your Grammarly report as well by attaching to the last page of your paper before saving it as a PDF. THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST DONE INDIVIDUALLY! 1. Pick any project of your choice that you will apply the 5S principles to. Describe the project or activity using the following: a. The setting, e.g., “The setting of my 5S project took place in my dormitory room, office, campsite, etc. b. Describe the current state of the activity and how its disorganization affects progress or advancement or causes delay. Additional detail may include such things as, “the last time my dormitory closet was organized was a month or a year ago.” c. Describe how the project or activity gets disorganized and what was contributing to its disorganization. d. Take a picture to show the current state of the project (a “before” picture). The project must include something that relates to school work, volunteering events, etc. DO NOT INCLUDE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION. 2. State how you applied the 5S to get the project, or place, or activity, or event organized, e.g., a. “I sort my clothes by colors…” b. “I set same colors together in order of the day of the week. For example, I set red color for Monday, blue for Tuesday, etc.” c. “I sweep or clean out items that do not belong or clusters the closet.” d. “I set a standard to always do laundry every Saturdays and return colors to designated part of the closet.” e. “By setting a reminder to return colors to where they belong, I am becoming more self-discipline about organizing my closet.” MGT 375 5S Project – Dr. Bakare, Western Carolina University 1 3. Explain how applying the 5S project has enabled you to be more productive with your time, e.g., “using the 5S to organize my dormitory closet has enabled me to reduce the amount of time it takes me to get ready for classes each morning.” Note: The prompts that I have provided in this instruction should be use as a guide only. Please expand on these prompts. Do NOT copy and paste my prompts back to me. Doing so will earn you zero on the project, that is 20% of your overall grade. Use your own writing style. Write the project in an essay format, not in a bulleted format. Use a list or itemize only where necessary. Cite all sources and include a reference page if necessary to avoid plagiarism. MGT 375 5S Project – Dr. Bakare, Western Carolina University 2