Liker (2003) asserts that continuous improvement’s goal is to favour organisational learning (OL), the latter being one of the key principles of lean management (LM). Yet, OL may result in better occupational health (Panari et al., 2010). The purpose of this paper is to consider Liker’s assertion seriously and to study the relations between LM, team learning (TL) and occupational health.,For this purpose, the authors compared 22 teams in nine case studies. A mixed methodology approach called qualitative comparative analysis (Ragin, 1987) was used to test the hypothesis that TL plays a key role in preserving occupational health in LM implementations, leading to improved performance that is not at the expense of workers’ health.,The central hypothesis questioned was that complete LM when resulting in a TL dynamic (i.e. systemic lean), would enable both increases in industrial performance and maintain or improve occupational health. The data tend to validate this hypothesis.,This research may enrich three types of research literature that hardly know each other, namely, LM literature (production research), occupational health literature and OL literature. For professionals concerned with the social dimension of modern production, this research shows that there is a path for a mutual gain perspective in LM, but this is a demanding process with many conditions to satisfy.

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精益管理和职业健康：团队学习是关键因素

Liker（2003）断言，持续改进的目标是支持组织学习（OL），后者是精益管理（LM）的关键原则之一。但是，OL可能会导致更好的职业健康（Panari等人，2010年）。本文的目的是认真考虑Liker的主张，并研究LM，团队学习（TL）和职业健康之间的关系。为此，作者在9个案例研究中比较了22个团队。一种称为定性比较分析（Ragin，1987）的混合方法方法被用来检验以下假设：在LM实施中TL在维护职业健康中起着关键作用，从而导致绩效的提高而不是以牺牲工人的健康为代价的。受到质疑的中心假设是，当导致TL动态变化（即系统性倾斜）时，完整的LM，既可以提高工业绩效，又可以维持或改善职业健康。数据倾向于证实这一假设。本研究可以丰富三种彼此不了解的研究文献，即LM文献（生产研究），职业健康文献和OL文献。对于关注现代生产的社会维度的专业人士而言，这项研究表明，在LM中存在着一种互惠互利的观点，但这是一个需要满足许多条件的苛刻过程。