- Title
- Assessing cultural readiness for lean implementation at an automotive component manufacturer in Port Elizabeth
- Creator
- Levendal, Arend Randolph Dimitre
- Subject
- Organizational effectiveness Organizational change
- Subject
- Corporate culture Motor industry -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MBA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/18145
- Identifier
- vital:28580
- Description
- Automotive component manufacturers face significant competitive challenges in the global market and are constantly looking for means to improve their competitive advantage. Organisations then often acquire lean tools as an attractive option to achieve this. Research has however highlighted that the underlying “Lean Culture” is what is really necessary for organisations to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage. According to Rother (2010) lean implementation can be seen as a project or an initiation of an on- going development process where learning is taking place. This implementation implies a change in organisational culture from its existing state to a state where it reflects a lean culture. The literature review into Lean highlights the importance of establishing a Lean Culture. This research relied on an existing Lean Culture Causal Framework to assess cultural readiness for lean implementation at an automotive component manufacturer in Port Elizabeth (Company X). This was done utilising an empirical study which relied on an existing questionnaire associated with the said Lean Culture Causal Frame work. This Framework focuses on four broad categories of leadership actions; Awareness, Engagement, Consistency and Accountability.
- Format
- xii, 88 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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