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Lean Manufacturing
1. Strengths and weaknesses of Quick & Easy kaizen, suggestion programs, kaizen circle activity, and practical kaizen training
(i) Strengths
Quick & Easy kaizen is instrumental in lean manufacturing since it encourages workers’ empowerment and thus improving the productivity of each employee (Imai 4). It also encourages provision of incentives to workers as well as efficient management of labour relations. Therefore, the quality of customer service, cost allocation and implementation of safety procedures are enhanced significantly.
Kaizen plays a significant role in decreasing the manufacturing waste while maintaining continuous supply of resources (Nordin et
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One of the method used to motivate is by substituting the outdated procedure of command and control with delegation and empowerment. This is done by introducing policies and strategies aimed at creating a favorable environment for all the employees to be participate in improvements. In addition, the traditional focus on results should not be overemphasized immediately during initial stages of kaizen implementation. Instead the employees should be allowed to concentrate first on the process improvement until it gains momentum.
The management should also shun away from overloading employees with initiatives in the process of integrating the Kaizen in the organization culture. Organization should avoid frequent renaming of initiatives as this may be mistaken for new initiatives. Workers should also be given incentives based on the improvement in productivity.
3. Description of the organization’s strategic planning process
Planning is a key pillar for a successful organization, and it involves organizing different activities in order to achieve a set goal. The organizational strategic planning process involves the following steps (Nordin et al. 374-377):
(i) Identifying the scope of work
This involves determining the extend and coverage of the activities to be done in the organization in order to achieve the target goals.
(ii) Assessing a duration of
Implementing change in an organization is complicated. It is important that a manager understands their role and responsibilities for which could very well be the success or failure of an organization. A manager should know how to handle staff resistance, and the areas that require change. There are processes that help management with assisting their staff members with adjusting to change and concentrate on the areas of importance. This process includes planning, assessment, implementation, and evaluation. The difference between a failed organization and a successful manager is when the manager has the ability to implement change with little disruption to
41). A systematic approach should be used when implementing a strategic change. The first step of the process would be redesigning how the initiative is currently being administered. The process should include how employees can contribute to cost control and outline the desired performance outcomes. Employees would be coached by their direct supervisor and fellow team members to achieve the preset goals. Supervisors can assess current employees to gage their current performance and encourage improvement. In addition, leadership should recruit future employees based desired skills and replace those not meeting or not willing to align to the new desired behaviors. The final strategic step would be having system in place to measure the behaviors and reward them accordingly. The systematic framework will require strong leadership skills to ensure its
Strategic planning is the management activity of an organization to achieve the organization’s goals through setting priorities, focusing activities and resources, working of employees and stakeholders, agreement establishment, and evaluation of the organization’s direction (Balanced Scorecard Institute, 2015).
2. Development of a comprehensive in practice training program which will focus on one to one coaching necessary to ensure optimal results, this design program will include:
Not only were the leaders impressed by the employees insights, they took action to address all of the problems. As a result, participation increased, communication improved, relationship between employees and management improved, and access to training and development opportunities were wide-spread. But most importantly, once the original change initiatives were introduced, employees embraced the initiatives, offered insights on how to improve their outcomes, and ensured their success.
Strategic planning can dictate the success of any organization if properly planned as well as the failure of an organization if not implemented as planned. Strategic planning is all about making choices. It is a process designed to support leaders in being intentional about their goals and methods. Simply stated, strategic planning is a management tool, and like any management tool, it is used for one purpose only—to help an organization do a better job. This portion of the strategic plan will explain why an
Strategic Planning is the process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organizations goals and capabilities as well as emerging market conditions and opportunities. This process begins with a clear company mission statement. However, this is only a small piece of a dynamic and perpetual process. Other activities involved with strategic planning also include setting supporting organizational objectives, designing a sound product mix as well as coordinating functional strategies. Strategic planning works to set the groundwork for the rest of the subsidiary planning functions in the company.
Change is inevitable but is not accepted by most people. Implementing change can be a daunting task because it can be embraced in a positive way or negative way. As a leader, it is hard to determine whether the change will help improve production or slow down work processes. In our text, it list several ways to implement change that can make the transition an easier process. Jick recommends his list of Ten Commandments. The first, is to analyze the organization and its need for change. This obviosuly is the first step in implementing change. I feel that when changes are necessary communication needs to come form the top down. When things are communicated openly thier is less tension among employees and supervisors. Second create a shared vision
The lean thinking has been established in a well manner in the competitive world. The countless business industries have proved their effective growth in terms of brand recognition and in terms of the good profit amount with the effective application of the lean production system in their operational activities. Toyota has added their name in the application of the lean thinking in their production process first in the global competitive market. The book “the Gold mine” written by Freedy and Michael Balle is a definite attempt to highlight the challenges that the leaders are facing in the perfect transformation of the lean thinking in their operational activities. This essay has discusses the direct connection between the content the
To include rotating these employees’s in varying positions to minimize employee burnout and stagnation. The responsibility increases would also add to the employee’s feelings of empowerment and job satisfaction. Another important factor I would add would be increased and regular communications throughout the organization. These implemented factors would substantially increase employee loyalty and commitment directly supporting the organizations competitive goals.
Lean is defines the manufacturing philosophy that reduces the time between the shipping and customer demand, which based on the systematic method by eliminating waste, that means giving the customer what they want when they want it, and don 't waste whatever. Rahmana, Sharif and Esa (2013) suggested lean production is mentioned to improve the company 's performance from the philosophy in reducing waste in order. That means, lean system destination is the decrease cost by removing the non-value activities, which they are applying a category of tools and techniques for checking and eliminating defective in the production process. In the Evenort Company should emulate the five overriding principles of lean thinking in terms of implementing lean that there is guarantee the company has been driving correctly in the lean manufacturing (Cardiff 2015) as can show in table 1.
The second element - personal discipline. Discipline is paramount to success. Kaizen demands each employee to increase their self-discipline in all aspects of labor - management of their time, the quality of performance of the work, observance of requirements and regulations, expenditure of material and financial resources, and so
However, Chase et al (1998) identified lean themes as total visibility; respect for people; flexibility; continuous improvement (kaizen); synchronisation and balance; responsibility for the environment and a holistic approach. These two are similar as one must have respect for people while specifying value by putting their needs into consideration, the value stream needs to be identified and made to flow continuously and this can be achieved through synchronisation and balancing, the pull system depicts the flexibility approach and lastly both emphasize continuous improvement.
Employee commitment. Kaizen requires commitment at every level of the organization. Implementing kaizen begins at the highest level of management. Management must lead by example or kaizen will fail. A good practice includes a manager to spend time in the employee’s environment to help and encourage them to make suggestions. The time spent with employees will give management greater insight into the production or service process. Also, management will have hands on experience to understand employee and customer issues to implement improvements.
Strategic planning is an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources, strengthen operations, ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals,