Lean Revolution and the Human Resource Aspects

Lean Production System as a concept emphasizes the elimination of waste in order to ensure optimum utilization of all available resources for the realization of optimum benefit which is doing more with less. But, in a subtle and quiet push for cost saving in the guise of "Lean", most acclaimed lean practicing organization attempt to over automate thereby eliminating to some extent the seven waste in physical production without ensuring elimination of intellectual resource waste which is the quantitative and qualitative underutilization of Human Resources. This paper takes a holistic look at the existing facts about the Human Resource optimization in Lean Production Systems.