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Re: Lean Manufacturing - Discussion on Concepts
I found an intresting article (at least for me), especially page 11:
"Initiating and sustaining employee commitment to improvement"
https://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/EMJPaper.pdf
"Freeing employees to improve processes is essential but insufficient. Successful improvement
requires the enthusiastic commitment of employees since improvement activity is less structured
and less easily monitored than throughput. Shiba et al. (1993) distinguish between two sources
of commitment for improvement programs: managerial push and employee pull. Managerial push
refers to efforts to promote improvement effort or mandate participation. These actions range
from inspirational speeches about the importance of improvement to mandatory participation in
training and improvement teams to financial incentives and performance review criteria based on
improvement. Employee pull arises when workers come to understand the benefits of
improvement for themselves and commit themselves to improvement effort independent of (and
sometimes despite) management attitudes and support (Schaffer and Thomson, 1992). "
I just like the expression "empoyee pull" and "managerial push".
Some thoughts from here may be useful as well:
https://www.understandinglean.com/PriorToImplementingLean.aspx
Enjoy
BR
György
I found an intresting article (at least for me), especially page 11:
"Initiating and sustaining employee commitment to improvement"
https://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/EMJPaper.pdf
"Freeing employees to improve processes is essential but insufficient. Successful improvement
requires the enthusiastic commitment of employees since improvement activity is less structured
and less easily monitored than throughput. Shiba et al. (1993) distinguish between two sources
of commitment for improvement programs: managerial push and employee pull. Managerial push
refers to efforts to promote improvement effort or mandate participation. These actions range
from inspirational speeches about the importance of improvement to mandatory participation in
training and improvement teams to financial incentives and performance review criteria based on
improvement. Employee pull arises when workers come to understand the benefits of
improvement for themselves and commit themselves to improvement effort independent of (and
sometimes despite) management attitudes and support (Schaffer and Thomson, 1992). "
I just like the expression "empoyee pull" and "managerial push".
Some thoughts from here may be useful as well:
https://www.understandinglean.com/PriorToImplementingLean.aspx
Enjoy
BR
György
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