Leadership that facilitates the successful implementation of Lean Six Sigma

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dc.contributor.authorAlnadi, Mohammad
dc.contributor.authorMcLaughlin, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-29T13:26:24Z
dc.date.available2020-09-29T13:26:24Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-01
dc.description.abstractResearchers have identified leadership as a critical success factor for Lean Six Sigma implementation. It is essential to understand leadership behaviours that facilitate the use of Lean Six Sigma. This paper aims to identify leadership styles from the literature that can facilitate Lean Six Sigma implementation, which in turn broaden the current understanding of the suitable leadership styles. Also, the authors aim to explore how leadership styles can enhance Lean Six Sigma operations. The authors systematically reviewed the literature on leadership styles and Lean Six Sigma. The results determined the leadership styles that can enable the use of Lean Six Sigma successfully. These leadership styles are as follows: situational (task-oriented or relation-oriented behaviour), transformational, servant, authentic, empowering, and distributed leadership. The authors provide a better understanding for practitioners and researchers from existing literature on how leaders' behaviours can enhance Lean Six Sigma implementation. It is not clear which style is the most dominant and effective. There is a lack in interpreting how these leadership styles linked to Lean Six Sigma implementation. There is a lack of empirical evidence most of the studies depended on a theoretical base. Very few studies have focused on leadership styles and Six Sigma success; to the best of the authors' knowledge only one paper has studied this. Also, there is scarcity in papers that addressed leadership styles that facilitate Lean Six Sigma implementation. This paper initiates a call to study Lean Six Sigma rather than focus only on either Lean or Six Sigma. This proposition guides future research based on the view that Lean management can share underlying assumptions with Lean Six Sigma characteristics. However, the mean limitation of this review is the use of specific keywords and database to identify studies.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAlnadi M & McLaughlin P (2020) Leadership that facilitates the successful implementation of Lean Six Sigma. In: 3rd International Conference on Information Management and Management Science (IMMS 2020), London, 7-9 August 2020en_UK
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4503-7546-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1145/3416028.3416045
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/15853
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherACMen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.titleLeadership that facilitates the successful implementation of Lean Six Sigmaen_UK
dc.typeConference paperen_UK

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