Managing the IE (Industrial Engineering) Mindset: A quantitative investigation of Toyota’s practical thinking shared among employees

• Marksberry, Phillip ^[1] ; Parsley, David ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Kentucky

     University of Kentucky

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Same
• Localización: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, ISSN-e 2013-0953, Vol. 4, Nº. 4, 2011, págs. 771-799
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Purpose: The goal of this work was to investigate the managerial practices of today to understand if Toyota is sheltering themselves from these newer practices or embracing them like most believe.Design/methodology/approach: This work utilizes a new form of data mining named Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to analyze an organizations ideal management practices.Findings: This work shows quantitatively that TPS favors earlier versions of industrial engineering compared to the optimization techniques available today.Originality/value: The use of data mining to analyze organizational management practices.