Date of Conferral
2023
Degree
Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.)
School
Business Administration
Advisor
Patsy Kasen
Abstract
Researchers have demonstrated that many manufacturing managers have used successful manufacturing strategies to improve their company’s performance. Manufacturing managers search for successful strategies to implement efficient manufacturing systems because inefficient manufacturing systems can negatively affect their company’s performance. Using transformational leadership as a conceptual framework, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore six U.S. manufacturing managers’ strategies to implement efficient manufacturing systems to improve their company’s performance. The participants were six manufacturing leaders of a company who had successfully employed strategies to implement efficient manufacturing systems. Data were collected from semistructured, open-ended interviews and a review of the company’s performance metrics, quality documents, charts, and financial documents. Using thematic analysis, five themes emerged: (a) efficient manufacturing systems, (b) successful strategies, (c) operations management, (d) leadership behaviors and effects, and (e) competitive advantages. A key recommendation is for manufacturing leaders to select and use performance measurements to discover on-time manufacturing processes that need adjustment to improve performance. The implications for social change include successful manufacturing companies employing U.S. residents with a resultant reduction in the country’s unemployment rate and contributing to the U.S. economy by paying local and federal taxes.
Recommended Citation
Okorie, Ihebuche Miracle, "Strategies to Implement Efficient Manufacturing Systems to Improve Companies’ Performance" (2023). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 14750.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/14750
