the practice and challenge of kaizen employment at horizon addis tayer shear company

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.