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 Effectiveness of Building a Kaizen Culture within Maliban Organization 


Kaizen is a Japanese business philosophy of processes that continuously improve operations and involve all employees. Kaizen sees productivity improvement as a gradual and systematic process. Kaisen is a Japanese word meaning "change for the better" or "continuous improvement". It involves improving day-to-day procedures with the participation of employees and developing the ability to perform the job efficiently under better productivity and less stressful conditions (Hargrave, 2020).

Maliban group is one of the pioneer Biscuit manufactures in sri lanka. incorporated 60 years ago and there making 25 million packs in every month in state of the art manufacturing facility under stringent hygienic conditions. Maliban si an ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000 and OHSAS 18001 certified company and they have won Sri Lankas prestigious national quality award on multiple occasions. Maliban is a privately held limited liability company and their team consists of over 1250 employees (Biscuit, Maliban, 2020).

Maliban Biscuit company produces about 300 million packets of biscuits a year. About 5% of that product is wasted. Getting into the habit of using Kaizen training can increases the ability to minimize the amount of waste and increase revenue as well. 

How to reduce waste and increase profits by using kaizen method in the Maliban

·         Abandoning unnecessary activities and giving that time to productive activities.

·         Reduce surplus production and produce higher quality productions.

·         Respect for the opinions of employees can increase the productivity of goods and services.

·         By using 5s method facilitates overall quality management through cost reduction, security, standardization and timely processing.

        1. Sort
        2. Straighten
        3. Shine
        4. Standardize
        5. Sustain

 

·         Monitor progress on a daily basis rather than targets and point out where they are to those responsible for achieving the production goal.


By making the above changes, the company will be able to make a profit by minimizing waste.
 


References


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Comments

  1. Lakshan Ganegoda30 October 2020 at 06:56

    Good explanation for the topic.
    Kizen activities support organizations to benifit through small improvements. We should always look for opportunities to keep the momentum using continuous reward and recognition methods and should always pay more attention to sustain those improvements. So that the team will be more engaged with the process and support the leadership in improving productivity through ideas.

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  2. Shiyam 30 October 2020 at 08:36

    Eventually sharpening the HR policies in the organization helping to achieve set goals..well explained..however I believe it’s advisable not to use the exact company name in your blog..it may contradicted with company SOP

    Regards,
    Shiyam

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  3. Nadun Rupasinghe30 October 2020 at 10:54

    Excellent article which has illustrated Kaizen culture into a Srilankan leading organization with examples .

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  4. Indika Mediwaka Blogs30 October 2020 at 11:01

    Very good article with an on explanation kaisen features and how it has been impacted on the leading production company in SL.

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  5. Hemanthi Maheshika Abeysekara30 October 2020 at 20:59

    This article simply tells us we could achieve our goals/targets by changing simple things in our day today life. Kaizen and 5s are management cultures which inially started in Japan and nowadays almost all the countries are practicing same. It may be little difficult to iniate the culture in the organization but, once we get used to it, our work life is getting more easy.

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  6. Razi Jalaldeen2 November 2020 at 22:07

    Whatever you cited should appear in the reference list and whatever appear in the reference list should be cited in the main body of the text.

    Please consider following points.
    The blog article should importantly have three parts.
    i) Introduction to the topic
    ii) Global context of the topic. (How it has been practiced globally, why they practice it and the benefits of practicing the selected HR concept.)
    iii) Application of the selected topic to the selected company. (Why they have to apply, how they would apply, expected benefits etc.
    And finally, a brief conclusion.

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  7. M. R. M Nishak4 November 2020 at 10:47

    Well linked the Kaizen theory with the selected Company for your blog writing . To minimize the wastage. Well explained & well line up the essay. Keep it up

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  8. Nafees5 November 2020 at 02:22

    A Company can use suitable rewarding system to bring down wastage as a measure of positive reinforcement on it's employees. Companies also should take measures such as not to allow employees to take home the wastage FOC or at low price. Rewarding without controls will not bring expected results.

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  9. Rswan26 November 2020 at 07:29

    employee empowerment to spread the kaizen culture you should must focus on employee empowerment .thus productivity will be improve.

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  10. Prasanna Munasinghe 10 December 2020 at 08:58

    This topic is far_reaching and highly important

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  11. Chanakaja11 December 2020 at 10:48

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  12. Chanakaja11 December 2020 at 10:49

    This article simply tells us that by altering simple things in our day-to-day lives, we can achieve our goals/targets. Kaizen and 5s are leadership cultures that started in Japan initially, and almost all nations are practicing the same today. As a measure of positive reinforcement for its workers, an organization should use the appropriate rewarding mechanism to minimize waste. Initiating the culture in the company may not be impossible, but once we get used to it, our work life becomes simpler. Companies should also take precautions such as not allowing workers to take home the waste FOC or at a low price.

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  13. Chanakaja11 December 2020 at 13:00

    The purpose of Kaizen goes beyond simple productivity improvement. When done correctly, the process humanizes the workplace, eliminates overly hard work, and teaches people how to spot and eliminate waste in business processes. Overall an excellent article which explained Kaizen culture as a leading organization in Sri lanka, with examples.

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  14. Pasan Wijesekara11 December 2020 at 23:54

    Applying simple and effective tools makes a significant change in an organization. Most importantly what is needed is to have proper identification of the need and commitment to implementation. However the concept and value of the prancing in own organization discussed in a understandable manner.

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  15. TharangaN12 December 2020 at 04:39

    It is important tools implement any orgsnisation to improvement of productivity.

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  16. Muditha12 December 2020 at 21:08

    Kaizen - "continues improvement " the concept came from the Japanese Toyota company. there are 5 elements of the kaizen,
    1. Teamwork
    2. Personal a discipline
    3.improved morale
    4.quality circles
    5.suggetions

    Kaizen is a strategy where employees at all levels of a company work together to achieve regular improvements to the manufacturing process

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  17. PALITHA13 December 2020 at 09:00

    Good to know about this theory ,actually most of japan theory s are based on increase the productivity level or efficiency level of our current position ,and those thing are very simple but we not procures on it ,this theory's are made us more discipline on our works .

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