Relationship between Employee Involvement and Performance on Lean Production

• Main Authors: Kuang-Tsan Su, 蘇光燦
• Other Authors: Tsuang -Yi Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71628173894193955008

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 企業管理學系研究所 === 104 === Lean production is a systematic mode of production from Toyota production system (TPS) and has been implemented in the industry for a long time. The core of lean production is to reduce waste in production, it creating the highest value with the least process. Lean production is not just a tool for performance improvement but a complete set of business management thinking for business to pursue with minimum input to create the most value for customers. The core of this study aims to discuss the influence on the performance of lean production and how to reduce cost, speed up delivery and enhance high quality with the implementation of lean production. This study is based on Lean production model of Marin-Garcia & Bonavia (2013) and Shan & Ward(2007) added the factor of management maturity for understanding how empowerment, training, communication, contingent remuneration and management maturity cause the different influence on the performance of lean production. Data obtained from internet and 158 questionnaires were collected totally, which included 3 invalid questionnaires, and the effective rate is 98.1%. Our results show：1. Lean production has significant positive impacts on performance. 2. Empowerment and training have significant positive impacts on lean production. According to the conclusion of this research, we propose two suggestions to relative organizations as a reference. 1. Strengthening the concept of lean production and extend to all levels of the organization. 2. Accentuation training and empowerment to enhance employee’s centripetal force and corporate performance.