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Critical Success Factors That Affect Lean Management Systems Implementation in Manufacturing Companies - A Case Study of Glaxosmithkline (GSK)
No full textA Research Project Report Submitted to the Chandaria School of Business in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Degree of Masters in Business Administration (MBA)Lean management has significantly become a significant factor in enhancing organizational success. Evidence around the world has found a link between modern day organizational performances with the capacity to advance competitiveness. This has catalyzed players in the manufacturing scene to pursue concerted initiatives geared towards the realization of competitiveness. Lean management is one approach that focuses strongly on continuous improvement of organizational processes towards realization of increased efficiencies. Using a firsthand practical assessment, the study conducted an evaluation into the critical factors that influence effective implementation of lean management program in manufacturing companies in Kenya. The study sought to evaluate the effects of critical factors notably, leadership & management, communication, finance capability, skills & expertise and finally organizational culture on the effective implementation of lean management programs within manufacturing companies.
The study adopted case study research design as it was the most convenient process through which a comprehensive assessment on the effects of lean management factors can be made in a practical basis by observation and evaluation of first hand lean management implementation. The case study was GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Corporation which is a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that has adopted lean management program, referred to as GSK Production System. The population of study included all employees in the organization who have direct interaction with the system on a day to day basis. The stratified sampling technique was used in this study. The study utilized a structured questionnaire which had close ended questions covering all the critical components of lean management. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistical analysis included methods for describing, showing or summarizing raw data mainly a measure of central tendency, mean and spread, standard deviation. Raw data was visualized by use of tables and graphs which helped in presenting the data in a more meaningful way for simpler interpretation. This method will describe the central position of all employee feedback frequency distribution data. Both Pearson Product-Moment correlation and Multiple Regression analyses were used to test for relationship between the dependent and independent variables. For this study, data analysis tool to be used will be statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) computer software version 22.0. A response rate of 83% was achieved, thus providing sufficient information required for assessing the critical factors that influence effective implementation of lean management across manufacturing companies in Kenya.
The study established that leadership and management were vital components for the effective implementation of lean management in manufacturing companies. The study established a p value of 0.620 which indicated a strong positive correlation between leadership and management and the implementation of lean management program. The study found that communication defined the network through which critical information on the implementation of lean management programs is exchanged. The study found that that financial capability is the backbone of effective implementation of lean management system.
The study makes a conclusion that, skills and expertise are critical advance requirements for the effective implementation of the lean management system. The study concludes that the organization culture is critical in the development of the framework that highlights the process and the areas which shall be affected in the process of implementation of the lean management system. These factors had a statistically significant relationship with lean systems.
The study recommends that organizational leadership assume the leadership responsibility for the effective implementation of lean management programs. The study recommends for a comprehensive initial assessment of the communication needs in the initial stages for implementing the lean management program. The study recommends for commencement of lean management implementation upon the availability of sufficient financial resources that will be required for the implementation of the system. The study recommends that, highest priority should be given to the training and imparting of technical skills as basic requirement for interaction with the lean management platform. Since lean management implementation has five stage phases, it is recommended that future studies should focus on a fully deployed and mature system that has already realized the benefits which is realistic and measurable through metrics. The study recommends on benchmarking with other industries to validate all the mentioned factors and evaluate the possibility of prioritizing the factors based on the impact felt on the companies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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