TY - CHAP
T1 - Management practices and performance improvement in manufacturing enterprises
T2 - The case of kaizen adoption in Ghana
AU - Ackah, Charles Godfred
AU - Atta-Ankomah, Richmond
AU - Kubi, Johnson Appiah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This book is an open access publication. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) together with Ghana’s National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) introduced Kaizen techniques through training to manufacturing enterprises in Ghana. This study sought to establish whether the intervention had any impact on the performance of enterprises which received the training. Our results show that Kaizen had significant impact on key performance indicators of the enterprises which adopted the techniques. We also observed significant differences in behavioral/process indicators between the treated firms and their counterparts that were not trained and had not adopted Kaizen. Hence, we argue that factoring Kaizen into Ghana’s recent policy to establish a factory in each administrative district may yield substantial benefits.
AB - Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) together with Ghana’s National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) introduced Kaizen techniques through training to manufacturing enterprises in Ghana. This study sought to establish whether the intervention had any impact on the performance of enterprises which received the training. Our results show that Kaizen had significant impact on key performance indicators of the enterprises which adopted the techniques. We also observed significant differences in behavioral/process indicators between the treated firms and their counterparts that were not trained and had not adopted Kaizen. Hence, we argue that factoring Kaizen into Ghana’s recent policy to establish a factory in each administrative district may yield substantial benefits.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85089322370
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-0364-1_12
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-0364-1_12
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85089322370
SN - 9789811503634
SP - 269
EP - 292
BT - Workers, Managers, Productivity
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -