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Summary:Purpose – This paper aims to assess the needs for a lean continuous improvement professional certificate and/or lean leadership cognate for a Doctorate of Education in leadership focused in three main research questions: “What do organizational leaders need from a Lean graduate programming?”; “What are the preferable methods of delivery for Lean teaching/learning?” and “What are the main learner outcomes and do how these impact organizational and continuous improvement outcomes?” Design/methodology/approach – A survey to 37 organizational leaders in a North-American state was conducted via telephone and email that were returned to the researcher. The survey was designed to target a solid cross-section of organizational decision makers in regard to the need for and type of lean training desired, if at all, for employees. Using a mixed methods approach, the survey was designed to collect both qualitative and quantitative information. Findings – Respondents indicated that lean continuous improvement thinking and lean processproject management were most the desirable content options. The method of delivery was not as clear with on-ground and online relying on job-embedded, project-based methods as most desirable approaches. Learner outcomes of mastery of lean content along with the ability to impact organizational and continuous improvement outcomes were favored. Originality/value – Lean leadership education is valued learning by organizational leaders. As so, higher education institutions must be aware of matching better organizational needs with learning experiences. This paper presents a survey that intended to do this in an original way.
Main Authors:Flumerfelt, Shannon
Other Authors:Alves, Anabela Carvalho; Leão, Celina Pinto; Wade, Dennis L.
Subject:Survey Continuous improvement Professional development Lean education Lean leadership Organizational leaders
Year:2016
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:restricted access
Associated institution:Universidade do Minho
Language:English
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Lean leadership
Organizational leaders
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description Purpose – This paper aims to assess the needs for a lean continuous improvement professional certificate and/or lean leadership cognate for a Doctorate of Education in leadership focused in three main research questions: “What do organizational leaders need from a Lean graduate programming?”; “What are the preferable methods of delivery for Lean teaching/learning?” and “What are the main learner outcomes and do how these impact organizational and continuous improvement outcomes?” Design/methodology/approach – A survey to 37 organizational leaders in a North-American state was conducted via telephone and email that were returned to the researcher. The survey was designed to target a solid cross-section of organizational decision makers in regard to the need for and type of lean training desired, if at all, for employees. Using a mixed methods approach, the survey was designed to collect both qualitative and quantitative information. Findings – Respondents indicated that lean continuous improvement thinking and lean processproject management were most the desirable content options. The method of delivery was not as clear with on-ground and online relying on job-embedded, project-based methods as most desirable approaches. Learner outcomes of mastery of lean content along with the ability to impact organizational and continuous improvement outcomes were favored. Originality/value – Lean leadership education is valued learning by organizational leaders. As so, higher education institutions must be aware of matching better organizational needs with learning experiences. This paper presents a survey that intended to do this in an original way.
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spelling engEmeraldporPurpose – This paper aims to assess the needs for a lean continuous improvement professional certificate and/or lean leadership cognate for a Doctorate of Education in leadership focused in three main research questions: “What do organizational leaders need from a Lean graduate programming?”; “What are the preferable methods of delivery for Lean teaching/learning?” and “What are the main learner outcomes and do how these impact organizational and continuous improvement outcomes?” Design/methodology/approach – A survey to 37 organizational leaders in a North-American state was conducted via telephone and email that were returned to the researcher. The survey was designed to target a solid cross-section of organizational decision makers in regard to the need for and type of lean training desired, if at all, for employees. Using a mixed methods approach, the survey was designed to collect both qualitative and quantitative information. Findings – Respondents indicated that lean continuous improvement thinking and lean processproject management were most the desirable content options. The method of delivery was not as clear with on-ground and online relying on job-embedded, project-based methods as most desirable approaches. Learner outcomes of mastery of lean content along with the ability to impact organizational and continuous improvement outcomes were favored. Originality/value – Lean leadership education is valued learning by organizational leaders. As so, higher education institutions must be aware of matching better organizational needs with learning experiences. This paper presents a survey that intended to do this in an original way.application/pdfporWhat do organizational leaders need from lean graduate programmingFlumerfelt, ShannonAlves, Anabela CarvalhoLeão, Celina PintoWade, Dennis L.HostingInstitutionOrganizationalRepositóriUM - Universidade do Minhoe-mailmailto:repositorium@usdb.uminho.ptrepositorium@usdb.uminho.ptISSNIsPartOf2046-9012DOIIsPartOf10.1108/EJTD-01-2015-000520162017-12-12T11:42:36Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZHandlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/48279http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ecrestricted accessSurveyContinuous improvementProfessional developmentLean educationLean leadershipOrganizational leaders119855 bytesliteraturehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ecapplication/pdffulltexthttps://repositorium.uminho.pt/bitstreams/c93f3135-48a2-497e-9b6a-d5913cfb827e/download
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Flumerfelt, Shannon
Survey
Continuous improvement
Professional development
Lean education
Lean leadership
Organizational leaders
status SINGLETON
subject.fl_str_mv Survey
Continuous improvement
Professional development
Lean education
Lean leadership
Organizational leaders
title What do organizational leaders need from lean graduate programming
title_full What do organizational leaders need from lean graduate programming
title_fullStr What do organizational leaders need from lean graduate programming
title_full_unstemmed What do organizational leaders need from lean graduate programming
title_short What do organizational leaders need from lean graduate programming
title_sort What do organizational leaders need from lean graduate programming
topic Survey
Continuous improvement
Professional development
Lean education
Lean leadership
Organizational leaders
topic_facet Survey
Continuous improvement
Professional development
Lean education
Lean leadership
Organizational leaders
url https://hdl.handle.net/1822/48279
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