As a thread, I thought I might write one or two lines on this subject, just to see if anyone is out there.
Anyone who works in an industry that is truly “Global” can understand “Lean” in a different way, whilst the employer is busy trimming in your workplace, it is more than likely that the exact same thing is happening around the globe at different work locations.
Over the years we have seen changes in the way our services are delivered and by whom, in some instances services provided by the company for decades have been switched to agencies not directly controlled by the company concerned.
Normally this means minimum wages and a deteriation of terms and conditions, or rationalisation as the company might put it, strange that the boardroom never undergoes a similar rationalistion process!
So it is easy to see why big companies often go to less well developed places and have a “Lean From Day One” attitude, workers don’t know any different, this is then developed and exported back to the other workplaces, not really global at all, just easy to do.
