| Abstract [eng] |
Lean is a business philosophy that focuses on wasting and creating value for the consumer, Lean is one of the most popular management systems. Organizational culture is important to Lean implementation and influences the performance of organizations. The purpose of this study was to quantify and evaluate the associations between 34 Lean practices, organizational culture, and performance. In the course of the survey, 160 Lithuanian Lean organizations were identified, respondents were Lean executives and operations level personnel of these organizations, and 121 duly completed questionnaires were received during the survey. The empirical data were processed with IBM SPSS Statistics 26 software package. Based on the Balanced Scorecard, performance indicators fall into four categories: \"financial\", \"customer\", \"internal process\" and \"innovation and learning\". However, a factorial analysis of empirical data in this study showed that performance indicators should include six groups: \"financial\", \"customer / market\", \"product development processes\", \"product presentation processes\", \"employee development\" and \"future preparation\". According to the results of empirical data analysis, the influence of Lean practitioners and organizational culture was reciprocal, but the influence of organizational culture on Lean practitioner application was greater than that of Lean practitioners on organizational culture. Both Lean practices and organizational culture influenced performance, and the interactions between elements of Lean practices, organizational culture, and performance did not include moderation effects, but included two mediation effects - Lean practices weakly mediated organizational culture influences and Lean practices strongly mediated Lean. the impact of practitioners on performance. |
