Person-Centered Approach to Sustaining a Lean Environment - Job Design for Self-Efficacy.

摘要

Toyota credits its team members for the success and sustenance of the Toyota Production System. The power of a highly skilled and motivated workforce is a significant competitive advantage for any company, in any industry. Toyota's team members collectively make hundreds of thousands of improvements to their work every year, reducing costs, reducing cycle times, and improving working conditions. Drawing on old and new research, this paper poses a theoretical explanation for why employees get involved and stay involved in transformational activities in organizations. It will explore relationships between corporate belief systems, job and employee satisfaction, and individual self-efficacy and then offer a way for companies to apply all of these theoretical ideas through two practical tools.