1b. Training, Education, learning and Growth
2. Project prioritization, selection, reviews and tracking.
3. Linking Six Sigma to business strategy
4a. Linking Six Sigma to customers,
4b.Organizational infrastructure and
4c. Cultural change
5. Liking Six Sigma to suppliers
6. Understanding of Six Sigma methodology, tools, and techniques
7. Four success factors are directly related to Human Resource Management and if we combine their frequencies it will be 7th top success factor.
These success factors are:
i) Human resource practices ii) Reward and recognition system iii) Use of top talent iv) Workforce managements
2.4 Theory of Constraints
The application of Theory of Constraints required the identification of a bottleneck constraint in the manufacturing process which has limited the through-put and thus negatively affected productivity and efficiency of the plant …show more content…
He has mentioned six Meta frameworks of organization, sequences, mind, development, gender, and culture. These six Meta frameworks assist constraint identification. Author has suggested the combination of the levels and Meta frameworks creating a web of constraints, the complexity of which determines how difficult it will be to solve a given problem and has inferred that theory of constraint offers an integrative and pragmatic approach to therapy while simultaneously giving respect to the complexity of human systems.
Jones and Dugdale (1998) have made comparison of TOC with other management ‘philosophies’, and evaluated the treatment of measurement, behavior and goals in organizations and assessed TOC’s promised performance in delivering the transformation in UK manufacturing. However the result depends on whether a ‘paradigmatic’ or ‘pragmatic’ mode of change is