The Lean Production in the Automotive Industry of UK: A Dissertation

This document presents an assessment of a Master's dissertation on Lean Production within the UK automotive industry. The report evaluates the student's work across several criteria, including presentation, introduction, literature review, research methodology, data analysis, conclusions, and recommendations. The assessment highlights strengths such as good referencing but also points out weaknesses like grammatical errors, a limited introduction, and a lack of critical analysis in the literature review. The dissertation is criticized for its wide scope, inadequate research questions, and a failure to integrate primary data effectively. The overall mark is 36/100, indicating significant areas for improvement, particularly in focusing the research, strengthening the literature review, and providing more robust data analysis and conclusions. The report provides detailed feedback on each section, offering specific suggestions for improvement and a breakdown of the marks awarded based on the dissertation marking criteria.