Lean manufacturing, leadership and employees: the case of UAE SME manufacturing companies

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dc.contributor.authorAlefari, Mudhafar
dc.contributor.authorAlmanei, Mohammed
dc.contributor.authorSalonitis, Konstantinos
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-25T14:20:00Z
dc.date.available2020-06-25T14:20:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-21
dc.description.abstractSuccessful lean implementation to SMEs poses great challenges. Although lean principles, tools and strategies for implementation are widely known and well documented, companies still struggle. In the present paper, the challenges for the SMEs in their lean journey are discussed, focusing on leadership styles and their impact on how employees perform during the lean transition. The aim of the paper is to determine the extent to which the main principles of lean manufacturing are understood and adopted in manufacturing companies in a developing country such as the United Arabic Emirates (UAE) through a structured questionnaire. The degree of implementing lean manufacturing is assessed and discussed against literature review findings. Furthermore, the impact of various leadership styles during the lean transition is investigated. A second survey is used for capturing the current state with regards the employee performance and the role of leadership in manufacturing SMEs in the UAE.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAlefari M, Almanei M, Salonitis K. (2020) Lean manufacturing, leadership and employees: the case of UAE SME manufacturing companies. Production & Manufacturing Research, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2020, pp. 222-243en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2169-3277
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/21693277.2020.1781704
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/15512
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectUAEen_UK
dc.subjectSMEen_UK
dc.subjectlean leadershipen_UK
dc.subjectlean implementationen_UK
dc.titleLean manufacturing, leadership and employees: the case of UAE SME manufacturing companiesen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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