...Steffan Macali Werner; Fernando Antônio Forcellini Purpose The evidence suggests that, to sustain lean initiatives over time, it is essential to develop a lean culture among employees. However, when exploring “how” to develop this culture, the approaches often prove to be superficial and difficult...

... to promote a Lean culture, which includes four dimensions: leadership, organization, operation and people. Originality/value Based on the LOOP conceptual model, a different, and hopefully more effective, perspective is presented, establishing some proposals for the four dimensions and for the production...

... leadership Lean culture Training development The challenge at many companies, including the case study company, was a lack of lean training specifically targeted at front-line operations supervision. Manufacturing supervisors need more basic “blocking and tackling” skills for lean – eyes for waste...

..., lean and review, lean and Toyota Production System, lean assessment, lean culture, lean transformation. The databases accessed through EBSCO were: Academic Source Premier, Business Source Premier, ERIC, and PsycINFO. Originality/value Publications tracing the lineage of lean over the past four...