Company Culture
The company culture in a lean enterprise is very important. The motivation and preparation of the employees is important in making lean successful. You will need to hire the right people to push the decision making and system development down to the lowest level. A company will need to invest in training and instill open communication to have truly empowered employees. A company will need to empower champions for lean, and remove any roadblocks that they people may encounter. An atmosphere of tolerating mistakes as the system is implemented and the willingness to take risks to try new ideas will be very important in developing a top notch lean enterprise. By truly empowering the employees, the performance of the business should improve, as well as the communication with upper management.
With successful culture changes, a company:
- Retains good employees and maximize employee potential
- Improves bottom-line results
- Makes improvements sustainable
- Develops behaviors to support Lean production improvements