Lean and psychosocial work environment in manufacturing

Kasper Edwards; Nina Thye; Anders P. Nielsen

Lean and psychosocial work environment in manufacturing

Kasper Edwards, Nina Thye, Anders P. Nielsen

Aalborg University

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Abstract

Lean is currently the rationalization method of choice in the Danish manufacturing industry. This paper reports finding from three lean implementation cases. All cases are manufacturing companies focusing on upmarket products produced in small series. Prior to lean production was organized as self organized teams. It is therefore hypothesized that lean would result in a worsening of the psychosocial environment. This was, however, not true and the paper enters into a discussion of possible reasons for this puzzling finding.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Production Research
Number of pages	5
Publisher	Fraunhofer-Verlag
Publication date	2011
ISBN (Print)	978-3-8396-0293-5
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	21st International Conference on Production Research - Stuttgart, Germany Duration: 31 Jul 2011 → 4 Aug 2011 Conference number: 21

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Conference	21st International Conference on Production Research
Number	21
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Stuttgart
Period	31/07/2011 → 04/08/2011

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Psychosocial working environment
Lean management
Case study

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