This Master-Thesis aims to analyze the Leadership profile characterizing the Change Agent in the management of the Pilot project for the Lean Manufacturing introduction. While the literature regarding the generic “Organizational Changes” emphasizes mainly the Transformational and Transactional leadership theories, the specific one on the “Organizational Change” towards Lean, it does not provide a professional standard nor relevant empirical evidence, although it hypothesizes the efficiency of a contextual and complementary adoption of different leadership styles. In detail it emerges that, among the traditional leadership approaches, the adoption of a behavior ascribable to the servant leadership theory can facilitate the introduction of a Lean change. Starting from this idea, this work is based on the hypothesis that a behavior of the change agent that incorporates attitudes of all the three theories of Transformational, Transactional and Servant leadership can promote the introduction of the organizational Lean. The case study concerns the analysis of two business cases, working in the manufacturing Italian's context, they are both considered examples of an effective adoption of the Lean Production. Inspired from the literature in the field of Change Management and Lean Leadership, and following a rigorous methodological path process, it has been tried to clarify the issue conducting different semi-structured interviews oriented to the personnel involved in the Pilot Projects for the Lean introduction. Through the analytic technique of the Cross Case Synthesis, it has been tried to answer the research questions: specifically, there seems to be reflected how an agent's complementary adoption of the three leadership approaches considered, it facilitates an efficient introduction of Lean Manufacturing. Moreover, it is proposed an interesting opportunity for future researches, which aims to investigate the incidence of formal power level held by the agent over the conformation of his leadership profile, and on his effectiveness in accompanying projects for the Lean introduction.
Questa Tesi si propone di analizzare il profilo di Leadership caratterizzante l’Agente del Cambiamento e la sua efficacia nella gestione di un Progetto Pilota per l’introduzione della Lean Production. Mentre la letteratura inerente Cambiamenti Organizzativi generici pone principalmente la propria enfasi sulle teorie di leadership Trasformazionale e Transazionale, quella specifica sul Cambiamento Organizzativo verso la Lean, pur non avendo fornito ad oggi uno standard codificato né una rilevante evidenza empirica in merito, ipotizza l’efficacia di un’adozione contestuale e complementare di differenti stili di leadership. Nel dettaglio emerge che, accanto agli approcci tradizionali di leadership, l’adozione di un comportamento ascrivibile alla teoria della Leadership Servile possa agevolare l’introduzione di un cambiamento Lean. Partendo da questa intuizione, l’ipotesi alla base di questo lavoro è che un comportamento del Change Agent che incorpori atteggiamenti propri di tutte e tre le teorie di Leadership Trasformazionale, Transazionale e Servile possa favorire l’introduzione della Lean aziendale. Il caso di studio riguarda l’analisi di due casi aziendali operanti nel contesto manifatturiero italiano, valutati entrambi esempi di un’efficace adozione della Lean Production. Prendendo spunto dalla letteratura in materia di Change Management e Lean Leadership, e seguendo un rigoroso processo metodologico, si è cercato di far luce sulla questione tramite delle interviste semi-strutturate rivolte al personale coinvolto nei Progetti Pilota per l’introduzione della Lean. Attraverso la tecnica analitica della Cross Case Synthesis, si è cercato di dare risposta alle domande di ricerca: nello specifico, sembra esserci riscontro di come un’adozione complementare da parte dell’agente dei tre approcci di leadership presi in considerazione, faciliti un’efficace introduzione della Lean Production. Inoltre, viene proposto uno spunto interessante per le ricerche future, che mira ad indagare l’incidenza del livello di potere formale detenuto dall’agente sulla conformazione del suo profilo di leadership e sulla sua efficacia nell’accompagnare progetti per l’introduzione della Lean.
Lean leadership : il ruolo dell'agente del cambiamento nell'introduzione della lean production
IENCARELLI, DAVIDE
2014/2015
Abstract
This Master-Thesis aims to analyze the Leadership profile characterizing the Change Agent in the management of the Pilot project for the Lean Manufacturing introduction. While the literature regarding the generic “Organizational Changes” emphasizes mainly the Transformational and Transactional leadership theories, the specific one on the “Organizational Change” towards Lean, it does not provide a professional standard nor relevant empirical evidence, although it hypothesizes the efficiency of a contextual and complementary adoption of different leadership styles. In detail it emerges that, among the traditional leadership approaches, the adoption of a behavior ascribable to the servant leadership theory can facilitate the introduction of a Lean change. Starting from this idea, this work is based on the hypothesis that a behavior of the change agent that incorporates attitudes of all the three theories of Transformational, Transactional and Servant leadership can promote the introduction of the organizational Lean. The case study concerns the analysis of two business cases, working in the manufacturing Italian's context, they are both considered examples of an effective adoption of the Lean Production. Inspired from the literature in the field of Change Management and Lean Leadership, and following a rigorous methodological path process, it has been tried to clarify the issue conducting different semi-structured interviews oriented to the personnel involved in the Pilot Projects for the Lean introduction. Through the analytic technique of the Cross Case Synthesis, it has been tried to answer the research questions: specifically, there seems to be reflected how an agent's complementary adoption of the three leadership approaches considered, it facilitates an efficient introduction of Lean Manufacturing. Moreover, it is proposed an interesting opportunity for future researches, which aims to investigate the incidence of formal power level held by the agent over the conformation of his leadership profile, and on his effectiveness in accompanying projects for the Lean introduction.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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