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Chapter 10
Organizational
Responsibility: Details
Need for Organizational Commitment
A Lean manufacturing or Lean enterprise initiative stands or falls on man-
agement and workforce commitment. Implementation of world-class Lean
manufacturing requires upper management to agree to a no-layoff policy,
whereas labor must in turn repudiate all restrictive work rules. These
requirements will doubtlessly encounter resistance from management and
labor unless both understand the reasons and the mutual benefits. This sec-
tion and the ones that follow provide the implementers with information
with which to gain buy-in from both entities. Ford and Crowther ...