Suitable for courses in operations management and leadership. The owners and employees of this company have spent considerable time and effort developing a unique, highly successful high-performance workplace culture based on trust and a decentralized structure. Faces and their teams managed areas with little direct supervision middle and top management. Some leaders, based on sales opportunities with new, large and demanding customers, felt that it was necessary to consider how the Lean Six Sigma program, or can be mixed in their workplace culture. But other leaders were concerned about the change in what is already a success. Education Notes (OM-1393TN) available. "Hide
by Robert D. Landel, Rebecca A. Goldberg, Andrew Moon Source: Darden School of Business 12 pages. Publication Date: December 23, 2009. Prod. #: UV5970-PDF-ENG
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