The role of leadership in implementing lean manufacturing

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2017-07-11

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Alefari, Mudhafar
Salonitis, Konstantinos
Xu, Yuchun

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.03.169
 https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/12403

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Alefari M, Salonitis K, Xu Y, The role of leadership in implementing lean manufacturing, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 63, 2017, pp. 756-761

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It is widely accepted that for the successful implementation of lean manufacturing, the senior management commitment is of great importance. However, the lean journey is usually a long one, and eventually management commitment creeps. Furthermore, the involvement of employees in daily improvements is also critical for the success of implementation. Lean leadership can be considered as a way of sustaining and improving the employee performance in lean production systems. In the present study, a thorough literature review is presented focusing in reviewing the principles of lean leadership and the practices that can lead in improving the employee performance. Furthermore, the characteristics and qualities of lean leader are discussed

Paper originally presented at Manufacturing Systems 4.0 – Proceedings of the 50th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, held 3 – 5 May, 2017, Taichung City, Taiwan.

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Lean manufacturing, Leadership, Survey

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