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Longitudinal effects of Lean production on employee outcomes and the mediating role of work characteristics
Abstract
The author discusses results from a 3 year quasi-experimental field study (N = 368), which suggest negative effects on employee outcomes after the implementation of 3 lean production practices: lean teams, assembly lines, and workflow formalization. Employees in all lean production groups were negatively affected, but those in assembly lines fared the worst, with reduced organizational commitment and role breadth self-efficacy and increased job depression. A nonequivalent control group had no negative changes in outcomes. Mediational analyses showed that the negative effects of lean production were at least partly attributable to declines in perceived work characteristics (job autonomy, skill utilization, and participation in decision making). The study also shows the longitudinal effects of these work characteristics on psychological outcomes. Implications for lean production, work design, and employee well-being are discussed.
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“By transforming work structures and processes, Lean also affects the employees responsible for carrying out the work, as studies of Lean outside of healthcare demonstrate [32–36].”
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““Lean production is … not a single unitary production concept, either in its design or in its implementation” [33].”
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“This has led researchers to propose that the effects of Lean are contingent on how and where Lean is implemented [33, 37, 41].”
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“Lean implementers and researchers should be aware that Lean can increase workload, threaten autonomy, and bring about anxiety.”
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“Lean implementers and researchers should be aware that Lean can increase workload, threaten autonomy, and bring about anxiety.”
From Lean Thinking in Emergency Departments: A Critical Review (2011) · cites this paper as [33]
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“Lean implementers and researchers should be aware that Lean can increase workload, threaten autonomy, and bring about anxiety.”
From Lean Thinking in Emergency Departments: A Critical Review (2011) · cites this paper as [33]
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“These undesirable employee effects are well documented in the broader Lean literature [32–39, 94–97] but may not show up in reports on Lean in health care either because of how Lean is implemented in health care or because studies in health care simply do not measure employee effects.”
From Lean Thinking in Emergency Departments: A Critical Review (2011) · cites this paper as [33]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Parker, S. K.
- Affiliations
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Parker, Sharon K.
- ORCID
- Parker, Sharon K.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 620-634
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W2041482123
- Cited by
- 438
- References
- 79
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 35 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 37 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 33
- FWCI
- 14.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Applied Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Quality and Supply Management
- Keywords
- lean manufacturing, assembly line, employee outcomes, organizational commitment, role breadth self-efficacy, job characteristics, employee autonomy, skill utilization, employee participation, job design, employee well-being, mediating effect
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Employee Performance Appraisal, Employment, Female, Humans, Job Description, Job Satisfaction, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Time Factors, Workload
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