| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to examine the practices & challenges of kaizen
implementation at Horizon AddisTyre Share Company. Descriptive research design was
employed in this study. Questionnaire and interview data collection instrument were used for
this study. Stratified random sampling has been used for selection of respondents. The
collected data were analyzed through descriptive statistics using frequency, percentage and
mean. SPSS(version 20) Software has been employed to organize the data. Based on the
finding of the study, training was the most important issues that challenge kaizen
implementation and it is followed by employee’s participation and motivation, top
management commitment, and quality control circle. The finding also showed that the
company is not well implemented kaizen due to lack of continuous kaizen training and
education program for building employees capacity, giving poor attention about kaizen
education and training like other fields of work , unable to build and developing kaizen
implementation system and procedures and structure, lack of kaizen trainers building
capacity and absence of experience sharing from domestic and foreign companies were
identified as a major challenges in the company. The researcher recommended that the
company’s top management should be committed to support kaizen implementation by
providing continuous and consistent well organized, kaizen training program for employees
in order to improve their kaizen skill capacity. Furthermore top managers should be
inspiring employees by making employees motivation through financial and non-financial
reward. |
