posted on 2016-06-10, 08:43authored byNicola Bateman, Lee Philp, Harry Warrender
This research investigates the use of visual management, specifically communications boards in a British lock manufacturing
company. The research explores the design, implementation and use of communications boards over two years.
The purpose of the research was to bring design principles from the graphic design and cognitive psychology into a previously
informal process and to develop Visual Management (VM) principles to guide the design of the board. The
research findings have acted as a proof of process for the introduction of VM theory into the design of communications
boards and provide evidence that the VM principles improved the design of the board. This enabled Team Leaders to
better engage in problem-solving and continuous improvement with their teams.
History
School
Business and Economics
Department
Business
Published in
International Journal of Production Research
Citation
BATEMAN, N., PHILP, L. and WARRENDER, H., 2017. Visual management and shop floor teams – development, implementation and use. International Journal of Production Research, 54 (24), pp. 7345-7358.
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Acceptance date
2016-04-25
Publication date
2017
Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Production Research on 9th May 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00207543.2016.1184349.