Tytuł:   

Developing a Lean Workforce: A Guide for Human Resources, Plant Managers and Lean Coordinators

Autor:   

Rick Harris, Chris Harris

Ilość stron:   

176

Wydawnictwo:   

Productivity Press

Język:   

Angielski

ISBN:   

978-1-56327-348-3

Cena PLN:   

146,00 zł‚ brutto

Cena Euro:   

42,00 EURO

Dostępność:   

niedostępna

Opis:   

Transform your Human Resource Department into an "Agent of Change" Throughout your Lean Implementation.

Changing an organization from a mass manufacturing environment to a lean environment is significant and affects all levels of the company if the implementation is done correctly. Many times, however, lean implementers become so involved with the nuts and bolts of lean implementation that the "people" side of the business is neglected.

In Developing a Lean Workforce: A Guide for Human Resources, Plant Managers, and Lean Coordinators, Chris and Rick Harris walk you through a simple, step-by-step method for taking a mass production workforce - consisting of production associates, team leaders, and area supervisors - and turning it into a lean thinking workforce with the necessary skills, training, and attitude to march in a new direction… the direction of Lean.

This book helps you in three important ways. It will:

1. Explain the current state of Human Resources in the facility and show that a systematic method of training is needed to develop those resources into a lean-thinking workforce.


2. Provide you with sample training sessions and explanations that you can use in training and involving your employees right now!


3. Identify two major Human Resources policy practices that benefit facilities tremendously -- Continuously training associates, whether they're newly hired or are getting trained in new areas within the facility; and effectively promoting employees from within the facility to team leader and group leader positions.

"Most of us are now far enough down the path in lean production to realize that the results lie in the details. This short volume presents all of the details you will need to create a frontline workforce and system of direct supervision that can effectively plan, do, reflect, and adjust, as you move your own operations steadily ahead."

--From the Foreword by James Womack, Chairman, Lean Enterprise Institute

This book will detail Human Resources' role in a lean manufacturing transformation and guide it to develop a "Lean Thinking" workforce.

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Recenzje:   

"Chris and Rick Harris have simply and clearly cataloged the key human elements of deploying lean. We have followed their practical implementation advice for several years. This book, like all their advice, is directly to the point. Their chapters convincingly reinforce that, '...Lean Manufacturing is about implementing productive and efficient systems, not just a lot of random tools'. I found the chapters on creating flexible workforces and developing group leaders particularly useful. Developing a Lean Workforce will be used as standard lean training in my company. "

"This book fills a void in the lean literature by addressing the preparation, change in thinking and training required to manage a work force through a lean transformation. Though much material is available dealing with the physical rearrangement of equipment and materials for a lean flow, good references for managing the people issues are hard to find. Included in the text are simple but effective lean training exercises for both the office and shop floor audiences. I believe this book should be required reading for Human Resource Managers in organizations implementing lean systems."

"Practical tools and insights for companies as they begin their Lean transformation are hard to come by. Rick Harris' book does just that. It's based on real world experience and filled with 'lessons learned' that can help companies avoid the common mistakes that trip so many up as they begin taking the first steps on their Lean journey."