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The final master's thesis examines high-tech industry and barriers for improving processes in such industries. Overview of high-tech industry in Lithuania is made with comparisons with other European Union countries. Analysis of most popular business improvement methodologies – "Lean", "Six Sigma" and "Theory of Constraints" – is made. In addition to that employee reaction to change and motivational factors are examined as important components of improvement model implementation success. Possibilities to improve high-tech industry performance by implementing business improvement methodologies are analyzed, which is possible by eliminating constraints that reduce the success of such systems implementation in high-tech industry. Employee influence to the success of business improvement methodology implementation is examined and the opposite – business improvement methodology implementation influence to employee motivation and initiative is also examined. Based on the results of the research and empirical data collected from two high-tech companies and one generalized group of employees a model for high-tech company business improvement is proposed, which also has tools to improve employee morale and motivation. The work consists of three parts: introduction, high-tech industry business improvement theoretical aspect analysis, high-tech industry empirical research, high-tech industry business improvement model, conclusions and recommendations, references, appendixes. The work consists of – 89 pages (excluding appendixes), 37 images, 15 tables, 52 references. The accessories are attached separately.

The final master's thesis examines high-tech industry and barriers for improving processes in such industries. Overview of high-tech industry in Lithuania is made with comparisons with other European Union countries. Analysis of most popular business improvement methodologies – "Lean", "Six Sigma" and "Theory of Constraints" – is made. In addition to that employee reaction to change and motivational factors are examined as important components of improvement model implementation success. Possibilities to improve high-tech industry performance by implementing business improvement methodologies are analyzed, which is possible by eliminating constraints that reduce the success of such systems implementation in high-tech industry. Employee influence to the success of business improvement methodology implementation is examined and the opposite – business improvement methodology implementation influence to employee motivation and initiative is also examined. Based on the results of the research and empirical data collected from two high-tech companies and one generalized group of employees a model for high-tech company business improvement is proposed, which also has tools to improve employee morale and motivation. The work consists of three parts: introduction, high-tech industry business improvement theoretical aspect analysis, high-tech industry empirical research, high-tech industry business improvement model, conclusions and recommendations, references, appendixes. The work consists of – 89 pages (excluding appendixes), 37 images, 15 tables, 52 references. The accessories are attached separately.