Aline F. Marcon and Eduardo F. da Silva and Marina Bouzon
Impact Assessment of Lean Practices on Social Sustainability Indicators An Approach Using ISM Method
539 - 543
2019
13
5
International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10010310
https://publications.waset.org/vol/149
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
The impact of lean management on environmental sustainability is the research line that receives the most attention from academicians. Therefore, the social dimension of sustainable development has so far received less attention. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of intraplant lean manufacturing practices on social sustainability indicators extracted from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) parameters. The method is twophased, including MCDM approach to uncover the most relevant practices regarding social performance and Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) method to reveal the structural relationship among lean practices. Professionals from the academic and industrial fields answered the questionnaires. From the results of this paper, it is possible to verify that practices such as “Safety Improvement Programs”, “Total Quality Management” and “Crossfunctional Workforce” are the ones which have the most positive influence on the set of GRI social indicators.
Open Science Index 149, 2019