Abstract

Lean Manufacturing (LM) is about cultural change at all levels of an organization, which can be seen as the essence of leadership. This study aims to present a list of the main Lean leadership competencies with validated definitions and propose a practical roadmap to Lean leadership development and training. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conducted to achieve this goal in which the Lean leadership competencies were identified. The Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) approach established the relations among the leadership competencies and result in a structural model that could be used for Lean leadership development. The analysis of leadership competencies' driving power and dependence power was done using the fuzzy Matriced’ Impacts Croisés Multiplication Appliquée á un Classement (MICMAC), which improved the reliability of research. This study contributes to Lean leadership literature by proposing a validated roadmap to Lean leader development and training. A structural model was developed that shows the hierarchy among the competencies and indicates the ones that should be prioritized. Besides, the result shows that the main ways to improve a Lean leader are attending to the shop floor and developing self-awareness. Furthermore, a strong synergy among all competencies was observed, reinforcing the fact that Lean must be an endless journey of improvement. To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to present the relationship between Lean leadership competencies. In addition, the results may guide the development of new leaders who work in Lean environments.

摘要

精益制造（LM）涉及组织各个层面的文化变革，这可以被视为领导力的本质。本研究旨在列出一份主要精益领导能力及其经过验证的定义，并提出精益领导力发展和培训的实用路线图。为了实现这一目标，进行了系统文献综述（SLR），其中确定了精益领导能力。解释性结构建模（ISM）方法建立了领导能力之间的关系，并产生了可用于精益领导力发展的结构模型。使用模糊Matriced' Impacts Croisés Multiplication Appliquée á un Classement 来分析领导能力的驱动力和依赖力（MICMAC），提高了研究的可靠性。这项研究通过提出经过验证的精益领导者发展和培训路线图，为精益领导力文献做出了贡献。开发了一个结构模型，显示能力之间的层次结构并指出应优先考虑的能力。此外，结果表明，提高精益领导者的主要方法是关注车间和发展自我意识。此外，我们观察到所有能力之间存在强大的协同作用，这强化了这样一个事实：精益必须是一个永无止境的改进之旅。据我们所知，我们的研究是第一个展示精益领导能力之间关系的研究。此外，研究结果还可以指导在精益环境中工作的新领导者的发展。