A Study to Identify the Influence of Employee Issues in Implementation of Lean Manufacturing In Small and Medium Scale Manufacturing Organisations in India

  Aibel Mathew K,  Ramadas T,  Dr. Satish K.P

Lean manufacturing is an effective tool to face the high competition among Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) due to the emergence of globalization and advancing technologies. It focuses on improving the productivity of the organisation by eliminating various wastes. Like any new philosophy, for implementing Lean manufacturing, the management will have to overcome numerous barriers. Any improvement in an organisation will be implemented through employees. Employee issues can act as one of the barrier for lean implementation. This paper studies the employee issues to be faced by the management while implementing lean. The data was collected through questionnaire survey and 128 responses were collected from owners, managers and supervisors of SME’s. The data was collected and the reliability was assessed using SPSS. This study identifies various significant variables that are influenced by these factors and ranked them with respect to their importance.

Keywords- Lean Manufacturing, SME, Barriers, Questionnaire Survey, Implementation, Employee issues, Resistance to Change

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1603071
Page Number(s) - 434-438
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 3 | August 2016
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Aibel Mathew K,  Ramadas T,  Dr. Satish K.P,   "A Study to Identify the Influence of Employee Issues in Implementation of Lean Manufacturing In Small and Medium Scale Manufacturing Organisations in India", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 3, pp.434-438, August 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1603071.pdf