5

Involve Your Employees

To create continuous improvement, it is necessary to involve your employees. You will not succeed if you push the improvements through orders from the top. This chapter discusses both Lean management and elements from other management theories.

5.1 Involve Your Employees

Involving your employees requires a different management style from the one we know best, namely the hierarchical.

Competencies Depend on Management

“The employees who ‘cannot figure out anything’ at work can both be football coaches, build carports and repair cars in their spare time. It tells you something about management at the workplace”.

Henrik Danielsen, Patriotisk Selskab

How do I motivate my employees, is one of the questions that managers ...

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