When lean management is implemented to salvage a flailing organization, the existing team faces numerous challenges.
A slight exaggeration here, but one day a team member is going about her work. It’s business as usual. Seemingly overnight, she must cope with new managers, new policies, new processes and procedures, and perhaps the most challenging of all — emotional anguish.
When a company reassesses its production models using lean management, it is implicitly rejecting the very policies and procedures that provided existing team members a sense of stability, direction, and familiarity.
