Lean Culture - How Toyota Encourages Employees to Embrace Lean Behaviors and Practices: Toyota Production System Concepts

By Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

Management has the important job of teaching and helping people get better. But they also need to give support, listen, motivate, give power, and give challenges. If you want people to do what you want them to do and do it well and passionately, you have to find the way to encourage and motivate them.Management has the important job of teaching and helping people get better. But they also need to give support, listen, motivate, give power, and give challenges. If you want people to do what you want them to do and do it well and passionately, you have to find the way to encourage and motivate them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: personal-lean.org
• Release date: Nov 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223178941

Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman is an industrial engineer, consultant, university lecturer, operational excellence leader, and author. He works as a lecturer at the American University in Cairo and as a consultant for several international industrial organizations. Soliman earned a Bachelor's of science in Engineering and a Master's degree in Quality Management. He earned post-graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. He holds numerous certificates in management, industry, quality, and cost engineering. For most of his career, Soliman worked as a regular employee for various industrial sectors. This included crystal-glass making, fertilizers, and chemicals. He did this while educating people about the culture of continuous improvement. Soliman has more than 15 years of experience and proven track record of achieving high levels of operational excellence to a broad range of business operations including manufacturing, service and healthcare. He has led several improvement projects within leading organizations and defined a lot of savings in the manufacturing wastes stream. Soliman has lectured at Princess Noura University and trained the maintenance team in Vale Oman Pelletizing Company. He has been lecturing at The American University in Cairo for 8 years and has designed and delivered 40 leadership and technical skills enhancement training modules. In the past 4 years, Soliman's lectures have been popular and attracted a large audience of over 200,000 people according to SlideShare's analysis.. His research is one of the most downloaded works on the Social Science Research Network, which is run by ELSEVIER. His research is one of the most downloaded works on the Social Science Research Network, which is run by ELSEVIER. Soliman is a senior member at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and a member with the Society for Engineering and Management Systems. He has published more than 60 publications including articles in peer reviewed academic journals and international magazines. His writings on lean manufacturing, leadership, productivity, and business appear in Industrial Engineers, Lean Thinking, Industrial Management, and Sage Publications. Soliman's blog is www.personal-lean.org.

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Lean Culture - How Toyota Encourages Employees to Embrace Lean Behaviors and Practices

Toyota Production System Concepts

Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

Published by personal-lean.org, 2023.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

LEAN CULTURE - HOW TOYOTA ENCOURAGES EMPLOYEES TO EMBRACE LEAN BEHAVIORS AND PRACTICES

First edition. November 6, 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman.

ISBN: 979-8223178941

Written by Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman.

Lean Culture - How Toyota Encourages Employees to Embrace Lean Behaviors and Practices

Toyota Production System Concepts

Table of Contents

Creating an Effective Inspiration Program

Finding the Right Path and Understanding What a Business Requires

Traditional Turnaround with Confusion versus Efficient Turnaround with a Clear Goal

Kata and Culture Change Routines

Classrooms versus Continuous Coaching

Management has the important job of teaching and helping people get better. But they also need to give support, listen, motivate, give power, and give challenges. If you want people to do what you want them to do and do it well and passionately, you have to find the way to encourage and motivate them.

Being motivated is a part of the system. Taylor's model is the main idea in the traditional way of managing things. Taylor (1919) stated that if employees were paid based on how much work they did, their productivity would increase.

In simple terms, employees who are happier tend to work better and get more things done. An employee should earn a fair wage that allows them to have a good quality of life. (This is different for each individual. ) Money and other incentives should be adjusted and given skillfully.

In 1975, Arthur Friedman, a business owner in