Applied assessment: Lean Leadership and Culture

Judge appropriate gemba, A3, standard work and change-management responses to real floor-leadership situations.

Every question asks you to decide, judge or calculate from a situation rather than recall a definition. 5 questions, 75 per cent to pass, as many attempts as you like, and your best score is kept on this device. Free, and a self-study assessment rather than an accredited examination.

4 of 5 needed to pass

1. A production manager wants to understand why end-line rejects rose this week. The line supervisor has already emailed a summary spreadsheet. What is the most Lean-consistent next step?
Choose one answer.
Go to the end-line inspection table and observe the actual rejected garments with the operators presentAsk the quality department to recount the rejects in a different report formatSchedule a meeting next week once more data has accumulatedAccept the spreadsheet summary and issue a memo based on it
2. A supervisor wants operators to improve a bottleneck station daily rather than wait for a quarterly kaizen event. Which practice best fits this need?
Choose one answer.
An annual policy deployment reviewA supplier scorecard reviewImprovement Kata with a short daily PDCA cycle at the stationA one-time value-stream mapping workshop
3. An A3 problem-solving document for a rework problem lists a proposed solution in the top-right box before the current-condition data has been gathered. What is the main issue with this A3?
Choose one answer.
It does not include a financial signature blockIt has too many boxes for a one-page formatIt jumps to a countermeasure before establishing facts about the current condition and root causeIt should have been written in a spreadsheet instead
4. A factory is rolling out a new standard work sequence on a sewing line. Several senior operators quietly continue their old sequence because they were not involved in designing the change. What is the most effective response?
Choose one answer.
Issue a written warning to non-compliant operators immediatelyInvolve those operators in observing the new sequence's results and revising it together, explaining the reasons for the changeReplace the standard work with the operators' old method permanentlyWait several months to see if compliance improves on its own
5. A plant manager reviews daily production boards for ten minutes each morning without visiting the floor, then makes staffing decisions from memory of last month's numbers. Which principle is most clearly being violated?
Choose one answer.
Go and see the real situationStandardized work enables improvementReliable technology serves people and processLevel the workload

Applied assessment — Lean Leadership and Culture

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