Effectiveness of 5S Principles among Employees Working in Foundry Industry with Reference to Coimbatore District

Authors

Elamaran N, Research Scholar
College of Management & Commerce, Srinivas University, Mangalore, India.
R. Nedunchezhian, Professor and Head
Center Head Finance, KCT Business school, Coimbatore, India.
K. Sureshkumar, Research Professor
College of Management and Commerce, Mangalore, India.

Abstract

In the current era the manufacturing companies concentrating a lot towards enhancement of quality towards delivery of work and also towards product quality.Due to lag of funds and lag of awareness towards concepts in enhancement of quality particularly with SME’s. The main objective of the study is to analyse the perception of employees towards 5S principles indirectly followed by the companies and to ascertain the impact of 5S principles practiced with the companies towards its effectiveness.For this purpose a sample of 160 was collected form the employees were analysed by descriptive statistics, onewayanova and multiple regression has been used as tools to analyse the data. The conclusion is that the company is properly following the policies framed for 5S principles with the companies but the employees are in lag of awareness about some factors. If the companies are following the same as per the documentation of 5S then the level of accuracy and attitude of the employees about the work policy can be changed in future period of time.