JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT 27(2) 188-205 2014年 [査読有り]
Purpose - This study aims to describe how a work team adapted to its fluctuated and severe environment by changing from "lean" to "over-lean" mode. To do this, the author investigated the relations among productivity, the vertical division of labo...
Social scientists credit science with stimulating technological invocation and with it economic growth. We management theorist also believe that theories do help us organize our thoughts, generate explanations, and improve our predictions. In Amer...
This study examines how a work organization adapts to severe environmental fluctuation, focusing on group leaders at an automotive assembly plant. Group leaders, who are the most skillful workers in their line, are usually dedicated to "kaize...
Nobuyuki INAMIZU, Mitsuhiro FUKUZAWA(担当:分担執筆, 範囲:The Effectiveness of Group Leaders in the Lean Production System: Time Study and Agent-Based Model of Leaders’ Behavior)