Development of a Quick Instrument Measuring Kaizen Culture (for Chinese)

AbstractNowadays, many foreign vehicle manufacturing companies focused their market in China and transported their own company culture into daily production of Chinese workers. Different company culture will lead to different manufacturing strategies and influence the performance of the factory. It is important to get image of the adoption of cross-culture manufacturing ideas. “Kaizen” is one of the production method inspired by Japan culture which encourages everybody in the factory to make improvements and modify the improperly production activities. Based on an extended framework of the theory of planned behaviors, a quick and portable instrument to evaluate the adoption of the cross-culture idea, “Kaizen”, was developed and delivered to the Chinese workers. Validity and reliability were tested based on the collected data. Result showed that the workers did not treat “Kaizen” as a Japanese term. They accepted and understood the main content of it. Workers were not so confidence with their ability to raise a plan or to realize a “Kaizen” plan with the help of technicians. Another finding was the action of “Kaizen” was not activated by rewards or the appraisal of others