ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of meetings when implementing and operating the Lean management model. The study reveals the significance of meetings when operating management models such as Lean. Specifically, it shows how the Lean model is played out in Swedish public preschools through meetings. What ideas and practices circulate in the Lean meetings? What kind of knowledge is particular to the model? What kind of employees and work practices do the Lean meetings make? Furthermore, it brings to light what kinds of knowledge may be produced through fieldwork in Lean meetings. The chapter presents the Lean management model, beginning with the car industry from which it originates, to explain the context of Lean's development and how the different tools Lean brings are intended to lead to improvement in contexts such as preschools. In the conclusion, author explains what ideas, problems, solutions, and practices are possible to circulate in Lean meetings and what work practices and employees Lean meetings make.
