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The relationship between leadership style and the success of Lean management implementation
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In this paper, the impact of the transactional, transformational, directive and empowering leadership styles on the success of a Lean management (LM) implementation in Portuguese companies is investigated.Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to better understand the role that leadership plays in the success of Lean management (LM) implementation, by trying to identify what is the impact of the transactional, transformational, directive and empowering leadership styles on the success of such an implementation in Portuguese companies, and what are the most important leaders’ attributes.,An on-line questionnaire was distributed to 65 manufacturing and services Portuguese organizations that have implemented LM.,The results suggest that the empowering leadership style has a positive impact on the success of LM implementation. Even though results do not allow concluding about the impact of the other styles, several leader’s attributes were identified as having influence: individualized consideration, information sharing, skill development, intellectual stimulation, assigned goals and self-directed decision making.,Very few studies have addressed the role of leadership in the success of adopting LM and, to the best knowledge, only one paper studied the critical attributes of leaders in LM implementation. Moreover, the present study focuses in Portugal, country where this topic has rarely been investigated.read more
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