Effect of Societal Culture on the Success of Lean Management

Critical review

Contents
Relevant effect of people`s societal culture on the success of lean........................................................2
Irrelevant effect of people`s societal culture on the success of lean.......................................................3
Positive effect of lean on people............................................................................................................6
References.............................................................................................................................................8

Relevant effect of people`s societal culture on the success of lean
According to Sundar, Balaji, and kumar, (2014), the concept of lean management was
initiated to maximise the resources by utilising them in such a way that can minimise the
waste. Later on, it was found that lean was helpful in responding to the fluctuation and
competition of business environment. Due to fast fluctuating business environment, firms are
forced to face several difficulties. Implementing lean management can lead to building of
core competency in service and manufacturing organisation. In this paper, an outlook
discussion of four journals have been continued on lean management. The discussion
continues on lean manufacturing with relation to organisational culture and societal culture
that can identify how relevant is the propositions of various cultural dimension and its effect
on implementing and sustainability.
According to Pakdil and Leonard, (2015), the challenge to adopt lean manufacturing
lies in the need to access the organisational culture. Japanese firms operate very well initially
by using this system. Culture is the way to make the changes that is required to implement
and sustain which drive the activities towards lean manufacturing. The particular lean process
dimension rotate the concepts across the lean process in the whole organisation such as
worker involvement, problem solving process, control and standardisation, perpetual quality
improvement and efficient productivity. Organisational culture influences the success of
sustaining and implementing the lean process. Organisational culture is the believe system
that employees of the organisation share considering their traditions, acceptable methods, and
working to attain the objectives. Rational culture is designed to focus on profit and
competition not just to focus on customer satisfaction and productivity.
According to Sundara, Balajib, and Kumarc, (2014), characteristics of organisation
emphasises on rational culture that can be more effective for lean process especially in terms