Assessment of Organizational Culture in Construction – A Case Study Approach

Abstract: In line with the trend of spread of Lean Construction concepts in the recent past, Lean construction philosophy was introduced in a large industrial project of a leading organisation about two years back. The drive by the top management, augmented by efforts of the Lean champions in the project team, helped the project team to transition from the conventional project delivery method to the Lean Construction method. The present study looks at the developments in Lean implementation in the Project over time, based on observations on such dynamics and understanding the strategies which might help to mainstream Lean philosophy introduction in other similar organisations and construction projects. A detailed case study based approach was adopted to this end. The mentoring coach closely observed the behavioural developments of the Project team over time. Data for analysis included primary observations by the mentoring coach, minutes of the various meetings of the project team under study and oneonone interactions with various team members. The analysis gave some significant insights on how to continue the initial momentum gained towards sustained Lean implementation on construction projects and in organisations.

Abstract: The present study is an academic construction that correlates the teachers’ identity perception with the transmission of content from the Directorate of Universidad Politecnica Salesiana, with the general objective of identifying the incidence of internal communication on the institutional identity of the teachers at this university in 2019. To establish it, a mixed (qualitative – quantitative) methodology is used. This integrates the techniques of analysis of the communication discourse issued by the University Directorate, semi-structured interviews, and the application of surveys to a stratified probabilistic sample of 515 teachers from all its headquarters in Quito, Cuenca, and Guayaquil. This study showed that the teachers feel identified with the organizational philosophy and culture, which leaded to infer that they certainly assume, actively, the institutional identity, motivated by communication, although a few communication deficits have also been reported. In this sense, the research complemented the quantitative and qualitative studies on identity management and institutional communication in higher education; and in the subject of study, it contributed to the consolidation of the Salesian Education Model, which proposes comprehensive education sustained by the teachers’ actions, within the framework of academic training, research and connection with society.

Abstract: Culture is a way for organizations to learn environmental factors. There are many definitions for culture. “Issue of” difference” with the leader of the director, including material that is much discussed in current and most experts believe that leadership is something different from the management

Abstract: Lean production not only successfully challenged the accepted mass production practices in the automotive industry, significantly shifting the trade-off between productivity and quality, but it also led to a rethinking of a wide range of manufacturing and service operations beyond the high-volume repetitive manufacturing environment. The book ‘The machine that changed the World’ that introduced the term ‘lean production’ in 1990 has become one of the most widely cited references in operations management over the last decade. Despite the fact that the just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing concept had been known for almost a decade prior, the book played a key role in disseminating the concept outside of Japan. While the technical aspects of lean production have been widely discussed, this paper sets out to investigate the evolution of the research at the MIT International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) that led to the conception of the term ‘lean production’. Furthermore, the paper investigates why – despite the pre-existing knowledge of JIT – the program was so influential in promoting the lean production concept. Based on iterating series of interviews with the key authors, contributors and researchers of the time, this paper presents an historical account of the research that led to the formulation and dissemination of one of the most influential manufacturing paradigms of recent times.

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