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Abstract— Despite the growth of the service sector in the global
economy and extensive research in the field of Lean but there
isn't an appropriate scale for the measurement of Lean service.
Lean is making a transition from the manufacturing sector to
the public sector because Lean management promises to
eliminate waste, reduces costs, and improves product or service
quality.
The purpose of research presenting a scale for
measuring lean service that included five steps: pilot items,
measurement of expert validity, Extraction of factors via EFA,
Confirmation of extracted factors via CFA and determine
reliability. Lean Service Scale (LSS) included 27 items in six
dimensions: lean structure, lean inventory, lean Maintain and
Repair (MR), lean movement and lean staff.
Index Terms— lean thinking - Principal components analysis
– service management.
I. INTRODUCTION
In recent years, Globalization accompanying with increasing
competition have forced companies to seek new production
and management systems that eliminate waste and control
costs [1]. that Lean System is one of those cases.
The term lean was not coined till the 1990s. Lean
manufacturing is a philosophy that considers the expenditure
of resources for any process that doesn’t add value to the final
customer as a non-value added process and hence is a waste
that has to be eliminated from the system [2].
Lean theory is rooted in the scientific method and the
Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle originally developed by
Walter A. Shewhart, a Bell Laboratories scientist who was
Deming’s friend and mentor. Lean thinking helps define both
what has to be done to solve a problem and how work is
performed [3].
Lean system is an approach focusing on eliminating
non-value-added activities from processes by applying a
robust set of performance change tools, and emphasizing
excellence in operations to deliver superior customer services
[4].
Lean production encompasses a wide variety of
practices or tools including just in time, total quality
management, total productive management, kaizen etc. but
Today, lean tools are not solely for use by the manufacturing
industry, more organizations in the service sector such as
healthcare and telecommunications etc. are adopting lean
tools in order to streamline services and reduce time spent on
non-value added activities. [2] that Figure 1 reveals that
several lean techniques invented in manufacturing are
Manuscript received Feb. 08, 2014.
Farzad Movahedi Sobhani Department of industrial engendering, science
and research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran
Zahra Gharib Department of industrial engendering, science and research,
Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Zahra Esfandiary Department of industrial engendering, science and
research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
becoming popular in services. Several researchers argue that
lean tools and techniques are interrelated and complementary
[5].
Lean program described as a success key inside of an
company and its implementations can bring amazing results
after only a few years that many benefits among them we
enumerate the most important ones: efficient use of resources,
rapid product development cycle, higher quality at lower cost,
greater flexibility, and environmentally sustainable
production[6].
Through several authors attempted to examine the
validity of lean to services but there is yet a strong lack of
scale for measuring lean service so the aim of the study is to
develop scale for measuring lean in service sectors.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW:
A. Lean service:
The perspectives of Lean are very much depending upon the
industry, the source, how long the organization has been
learning about Lean, and what that organization's real
objectives are for adopting Lean[6].
From viewpoint of some researchers, Lean system is
perceived to consist of two levels: lean philosophy and lean
practices while to others it is a three-level system, lean
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philosophy, lean principles and lean practices [5]. that shown
in table1.
Levels Descriptive
lean
philosophy
focuses on improving the value from
customer perspective by eliminating
waste from processes
lean
principles
involves the five principles introduced
by Womack and Jones (1996) which are
a roadmap to achieve the first level
lean
practices
is necessary to reflect the previous two
levels practically and subsequently, it
represents the actions to be taken
Table (1): Lean system levels
Lean is basically all about getting the right things to the right
place, at the right time, in the right quantity while minimizing
waste and being flexible and open to change. As it stands the
method is resultfull, comparatively with the investments, but
as it involves all employees all of these concepts have to be
understood, appreciated and embraced by them. Being
directed for performance, lean is the way for the continuous
growth of a business [6].
Lean approaches help managers recognize and
reduce the waste in processes. Wastes are activities that add
no value from a customer perspective, including [7]:
Waiting—waiting for the next event to occur or next work
activity
Motion—unnecessary movement by employees in the system
Transportation— unnecessary movement of the product in a
system (patient, specimens, materials)
Defects—time spent doing something incorrectly, inspecting
for errors, or correcting errors
Over processing—doing work that is not valued by the
customer or caused by definitions of quality that are not
aligned with patient needs
Overproduction—doing more than what is needed by the
customer or doing it sooner than needed
In the following, Munteanu and Olteanu (2007) will
summarize an example of a lean implementation program.
The main steps would be:
1. Senior management to agree and discuss their lean vision;
2. Management brainstorm to identify project leader and set
objectives;
3. Communicate plan and vision to the workforce;
4. Ask for volunteers to form the Lean Implementation team
(5-7 works best, all from different departments);
5. Appoint members of the Lean Manufacturing
Implementation Team;
6. Train the Implementation Team in the various lean tools -
make a point of trying to visit other noncompeting
businesses which have implemented lean;
7. Select a Pilot Project
8. Run the pilot for 2-3 months - evaluate, review and learn
from your mistakes;
9. Roll out pilot to other factory areas;
10. Evaluate results, encourage feedback; Once you are
satisfied that you have a habitual program; consider
introducing the next lean tool. Select the one which will
give you the biggest return for your business[6].
B. Factor analysis:
In many instances, researchers are interested in variables that
cannot be directly observed, such as achievement,
intelligence, or beliefs. In research methodology, authors use
terms such as latent variables or factors to describe
unobserved variables. They attempt to gain information about
latent factors through observable variables. Factor analysis is
statistical technique that one can use [8].
While factor analysis has origins dating back 100 years
through the work of Pearson and Spearman, the practical
application of this approach has been suggested to be in fact a
modern occurrence [9].
Factor analysis is a multivariate statistical procedure that has
many uses, three of which will be briefly noted here. Firstly,
factor analysis reduces a large number of variables into a
smaller set of variables (also referred to as factors). Secondly,
it establishes underlying dimensions between measured
variables and latent constructs, thereby allowing the
formation and refinement of theory. Thirdly, it provides
construct validity evidence of self-reporting scales [9].
There are two major classes of factor analysis:
Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), and Confirmatory Factor
Analysis (CFA). In EFA, the investigator has no expectations
of the number or nature of the variables and as the title
suggests, is exploratory in nature. That is, it allows the
researcher to explore the main dimensions to generate a
theory, or model from a relatively large set of latent constructs
often represented by a set of items[9].
CFA is a confirmatory technique—it is theory driven.
Therefore, the planning of the analysis is driven by the
theoretical relationships among the observed and unobserved
variables. When a CFA is conducted, the researcher uses a
hypothesized model to estimate a population covariance
matrix that is compared with the observed covariance matrix.
Technically, the researcher wants to minimize the difference
between the estimated and observed matrices [8]. in fact, in
CFA the researcher uses this approach to test a proposed
theory (CFA is a form of structural equation modeling), or
model and in contrast to EFA, has assumptions and
expectations based on priori theory regarding the number of
factors, and which factor theories or models best fit[9].
III. METHODOLOGY:
As we said, the main objective of research is development and
validation a scale for measurement lean service. Therefor the
researchers follow five steps:
Step1: items pool
Step2: measurement of expert validity
Step3: Extraction of factors via EFA
Step4: Confirmation of extracted factors via CFA
Step5: determine reliability
In first step, for determination of initiative items, we
study different articles and books in field of lean that two
major sources include Liker (2004)[10] and AlemTajbriz
(2009)[11].
According to Liker (2004)[10] there are eight major types of
non-value-adding activities in business or manufacturing
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processes identified, included: Overproduction , Waiting
(time on hand), Transportation or conveyance, Over
processing or incorrect processing, Excess inventory,
Unnecessary movement, Defects and Unused employee
creativity. Liker (2004)[10] points out that the application is
also valid for other processes other than manufacturing
processes, such as information or service processes. Also,
AllemTajbriz (2009)[11] noted that other three important
wastes can exist in organizations that included:
Environmental waste, maintenance and repair (M.R),
Organizational problem. In the step was prepared 87 items as
pilot items.
For measurement of expert validity is used CVR that
was developed by C. H. Lawshe. Lawshe (1975)[12] provided
a table of critical values for the CVR by which a test evaluator
could determine, for a pool of the subject matter expert raters
(SMEs) of a given size, the size of a calculated CVR
necessary to exceed chance expectation. CVR before hitting
its ceiling value at the case of 7 SMEs is minimum value =
.99. in the research is used five experts that eliminated 29
items.
For Extraction of factors via EFA (step3), 58 items
setting out the form of a questionnaire and distributed in the
ports and maritime organization (PMO) Margin of Caspian
Sea in Iran.
In this research, from 187 questionnaires that had been
distributed in the ports and maritime organization (PMO)
Margin of Caspian Sea in Iran., 13 of them (6.95 %) hadn’t
been returned, 6 of them (3.20 %) weren’t completed and 98
of them were completed that were ready for analyzing a rate
equal with 89.84 % that is a good rate. The samples of 98
respondents were 92.9 percent male and 7.1 percent female,
and most of them were below 40 year of age.
In step 4, PLS Smart software used for Confirmation of
extracted factors via CFA that the results shown in next
section. Finally, Alpha Cronbach examined for determination
of reliability via SPSS19.
Findings:
This stage, after validating of Experts and obtain 58 items, is
Extraction of factors via EFA by using SPSS 19. Exploratory
Factor Analysis includes four steps:
Step 1: Is the data suitable for factor analysis?
Before doing Factor analysis, should be done items
purification that is used from Corrected Item-Total
Correlation (CITC) are used. If the items value was less than
0.3 must be eliminated from the analysis. According to the
results from the 54 items, 8 items will be removed. To ensure
first whether factor analysis in this study is permitted and fit
there or not sampling, KMO and Bartlett's Test of Sphericity
was calculated. The KMO index ranges from 0 to 1, with 0.50
considered suitable for factor analysis. The Bartlett's Test of
Sphericity should be significant (p<.05) for factor analysis to
be suitable [8].
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling
Adequacy.
.727
Bartlett's Test of
Sphericity
Approx.
Chi-Square
8288.16
1
df 1431
Sig. .000
Table (2): the results of Measure of Sampling Adequacy
Step 2: How will the factors be extracted?
Principal components analysis (PCA) used for extraction
factors because some researchers suggested using PCA in
establishing preliminary solutions in EFA [13].
The aim of rotation is to simplify the factor structure of a
group of items, or in other words, high item loadings on one
factor and smaller item loadings on the remaining factor
solutions.
For Recognizing the contribution of factors in explaining the
variance of each item is used eigenvalues that if item was
eigenvalues less than 0.3, so that option will be removed from
the exploratory factor analysis, the next step will be. In the
research any items wasn't less than 0.3.
Table (3): the contribution of factors in explaining the
variance of each item
Step 3: What criteria will assist in determining factor
extraction?
The aim of the data extraction is reduce a large number of
items into factors. In order to produce scale
unidimensionality, and simplify the factor solutions several
criteria are available to researchers. One of the extraction
rules include Kaiser's criteria that should eigenvalue > 1. In
the research a total of 10 components (factors) having an
eigenvalue >1
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Component
Initial Eigenvalues
Extraction Sums of Squared
Loadings Rotation Sums of Squared Loadings
Total
% of
Variance Cumulative % Total
% of
Variance Cumulative % Total
% of
Variance
Cumulative
%
1 14.779 32.129 32.129 14.779 32.129 32.129 5.649 12.281 12.281
2 4.699 10.215 42.344 4.699 10.215 42.344 5.575 12.121 24.402
3 3.092 6.723 49.066 3.092 6.723 49.066 5.018 10.908 35.310
4 2.395 5.207 54.274 2.395 5.207 54.274 4.294 9.334 44.644
5 2.249 4.889 59.163 2.249 4.889 59.163 2.701 5.871 50.515
6 1.622 3.525 62.688 1.622 3.525 62.688 2.676 5.817 56.333
7 1.355 2.946 65.635 1.355 2.946 65.635 2.286 4.969 61.302
8 1.302 2.830 68.464 1.302 2.830 68.464 2.177 4.732 66.034
9 1.157 2.516 70.980 1.157 2.516 70.980 1.818 3.951 69.985
10 1.107 2.406 73.386 1.107 2.406 73.386 1.565 3.401 73.386
Table (4): Total Variance Explained
Step 4: Selection of Rotational Method:
Another consideration when deciding how many factors you
will analyses your data is whether a variable might relate to
more than one factor. Rotation maximizes high item loadings
and minimizes low item loadings, therefore producing a more
interpretable and simplified solution. The research is used
Varimax with Kaiser Normalization.
Component
1 2 3 4 5 6 9
Item8 0.543
Item21 0.446
Item32 0.488
Item41 0.595
Item43 0.697
Item49 0.649
Item50 0.813
Item51 0.798
Item52 0.528
Item53 0.672
Item54 0.66
Item6 0.625
Item7 0.701
Item11 0.751
Item19 0.663
Item24 0.493
Item25 0.703
Item27 0.696
Item44 0.509
Item12 0.686
Item13 0.768
Item14 0.717
Item15 0.78
Item16 0.629
Item17 0.503
Item18 0.547
Item 37 0.727
Item 38 0.769
Item40 0.306
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Item5 0.773
Item26 0.624
Item29 0.462
Item46 0.791
Item47 0.794
Item48 0.73
item4 0.531
Item23 0.418
Item34 0.556
Item42 0.723
Item9 0.584
Item10 0.759
Item22 0.618
Item31 0.446
Item32 0.484
Item2 -0.711
Item35 0.629
Item36 0.533
Table (5): Rotated Component Matrix
For determining validity, convergent validity was assessed for
all indicators. For this purpose is applied from confirmatory
factor analysis (CFA) by using PLS Smart. Factor loadings
should were higher than 0.7. The results of factor loadings
shown in table ( 5 ). From remaining 47 items, 19 items were
eliminated.
1 2 3 4 5 6 9
Item8 0.646
Item21 0.716
Item32 0.689
Item41 0.608
Item43 0.696
Item49 0.811
Item50 0.814
Item51 0.711
Item52 0.675
Item53 0.749
Item54 0.813
Item6 0.736
Item7 0.836
Item11 0.803
Item19 0.791
Item24 0.671
Item25 0.738
Item27 0.823
Item44 0.540
Item12 0.808
Item13 0.738
Item14 0.686
Item15 0.839
Item16 0.756
Item17 0.742
Item18 0.696
Item 37 0.518
Item 38 0.486
Item40 0.531
Item5 0.550
Item26 0.676
Item29 0.731
Item46 0.813
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Item47 0.845
Item48 0.791
item4 0.661
Item23 0.797
Item34 0.893
Item42 0.732
Item9 0.642
Item10 0.769
Item22 0.865
Item31 0.759
Item2 0.306
Item35 0.659
Item36 0.855
Table (6 ): The results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) by using PLS Smart software
For determining reliability of the scale in this research, used
Cronbach's alpha. Total Cronbach’s alpha was 0.939 .So the
questionnaire reliability is acceptable. Only thirty six item
eliminated because Cronbach's Alpha is increased if the item
Deleted.
.
Items
Scale Mean if
Item Deleted
Scale Variance
if Item Deleted
Corrected Item-Total
Correlation
Cronbach's Alpha
if Item Deleted
S21 78.2917 288.615 .688 .935
S49 78.4167 283.909 .682 .935
S50 78.3333 293.505 .534 .937
S51 78.3929 300.096 .425 .938
S53 78.1548 292.012 .549 .937
S54 78.2143 284.577 .653 .936
S6 78.1786 293.333 .577 .937
S7 78.0417 289.441 .720 .935
S11 78.0357 287.819 .642 .936
S19 78.1071 288.899 .686 .936
S25 77.9821 292.221 .544 .937
S27 77.9345 285.930 .713 .935
S12 78.2917 292.004 .538 .937
S13 78.6964 298.991 .388 .939
S15 78.7083 296.136 .503 .938
S16 78.3631 298.891 .392 .939
S17 77.9821 287.838 .664 .936
S29 78.6190 293.004 .564 .937
S46 78.1905 292.047 .542 .937
S47 78.3333 295.529 .526 .937
S48 78.0536 294.171 .556 .937
S23 78.2440 290.461 .639 .936
S34 78.4464 290.141 .714 .935
S42 78.2381 293.823 .520 .937
S10 78.4286 297.085 .488 .938
S22 78.6071 292.923 .621 .936
S31 78.4345 290.606 .606 .936
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Items
Scale Mean if
Item Deleted
Scale Variance
if Item Deleted
Corrected Item-Total
Correlation
Cronbach's Alpha
if Item Deleted
S21 78.2917 288.615 .688 .935
S49 78.4167 283.909 .682 .935
S50 78.3333 293.505 .534 .937
S51 78.3929 300.096 .425 .938
S53 78.1548 292.012 .549 .937
S54 78.2143 284.577 .653 .936
S6 78.1786 293.333 .577 .937
S7 78.0417 289.441 .720 .935
S11 78.0357 287.819 .642 .936
S19 78.1071 288.899 .686 .936
S25 77.9821 292.221 .544 .937
S27 77.9345 285.930 .713 .935
S12 78.2917 292.004 .538 .937
S13 78.6964 298.991 .388 .939
S15 78.7083 296.136 .503 .938
S16 78.3631 298.891 .392 .939
S17 77.9821 287.838 .664 .936
S29 78.6190 293.004 .564 .937
S46 78.1905 292.047 .542 .937
S47 78.3333 295.529 .526 .937
S48 78.0536 294.171 .556 .937
S23 78.2440 290.461 .639 .936
S34 78.4464 290.141 .714 .935
S42 78.2381 293.823 .520 .937
S10 78.4286 297.085 .488 .938
S22 78.6071 292.923 .621 .936
S31 78.4345 290.606 .606 .936
S36 78.5833 298.221 .466 .942
Table (7): the results of Cronbach's Alpha
IV. CONCLUSION
Lean management has been applied across many different
sectors and organizations and todays Lean is making a
transition from the manufacturing sector to the public sector
because Lean management promises to eliminate waste,
reduces costs, and improves product or service quality [14].
Despite the growth of the service sector in the global economy
and extensive research in the field of Lean but there isn't an
appropriate scale for the measurement of Lean service. After
doing 5 Steps in the ports i maritime organization, derived
scale is consists of 6 dimensions and 27 items. A brief
description of each of the factors is given below.
Factor1- lean processing: Included items that increase the
speed of doing task to provide services. The amount of
explained variance (12.281) was maximum amount among
other factors. Lean processing included:
-To use scientific and effective methods for organizing office,
place of teams, equipment, tools and stocks
-Mechanized the office operations, to avoid the slow handling
process of customer affairs environmental and sound
pollution ... at office
-The tendency of organization to resolving the different kinds
of sound pollution
-Speed of repairing and rebuilding the faulty equipment
The tendency of staffs to mechanize the operations in the
organization-
-The tendency of organization to remove the obstacle
instructions
Factor2- lean structure: included Factors that are related to
organizational structure in order that different sectors could
do activities better. Six items of lean structure included:
To provide the ways of staff's job promotions-
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-Contributing the results of analyzing employee morale in
strategic plan scientificlity and systematically.
-provide appropriate rewards for good and applicative ideas
-to ensure the rapid implementation of ideas by agencies
-fit between salaries and incomes of staffs accordance with
type of their activity
-performing unnecessary handling by workers or more
ordinary equipment instead of using special and more
advanced equipment
Factor3- lean inventory: Set of factors included to get better
warehousing and inventory management. lean inventory
included five items :
-Sorting and queue up the goods in warehouses based on
certain principles
-Counting and delivery of goods systematically during
deliver them to a public warehouse (open-closed)
-The timely delivery of goods from warehouses and access to
them at the time desired by customers
-The amount of not damaging (staying safe) goods in
warehouses, based on current styles
- To reconsider the wrapping (packaging) in case of failure of
goods packing in.
Factor4- lean Maintain and Repair (MR): Factors that caused
Maintain and Repair to be done properly up to avoid
duplication.
-Choosing the right type of employed equipment for correct
loading - unloading
-Accuracy in repairing damaged equipment to avoid
duplication
-monitoring and regular inspection of equipment to prevent
failure
-Control of unnecessary traffic in the range of operational
agencies
Factor5- lean movement: Including transportation between
parts and reducing the waiting time is.
-To avoid unnecessary goods transportation (between
warehouses and pier)
-To Observe the distance between the place of loading goods
(dock) to the unloading location (warehouse)
-To use flexible equipment (multi-purpose) to avoid time
using.
Factor6- lean staff: Including factors related to employees to
determine to what extent they have the ability and motivation
to reduce waste. The amount of explained variance was
minimum amount among other factors (5.817).
-To rebuild and make more speed in port's operations
accordance with current facilities
-Notice to customers, priorities and needs of customers in the
services that offer by staffs
-The tendency of staffs to eliminate destruction in the system
One of limitation to this study should be noted is scale
generalizability. The sample, which seemed appropriate for
this particular study, was in Caspian Sea margin, Iran.
Therefore suggest future researchers that use and apply Lean
Service Scale in other service organizations in different
countries.
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  • 1. International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR) ISSN: 2321-0869, Volume-2, Issue-2, February 2014 209 www.erpublication.org  Abstract— Despite the growth of the service sector in the global economy and extensive research in the field of Lean but there isn't an appropriate scale for the measurement of Lean service. Lean is making a transition from the manufacturing sector to the public sector because Lean management promises to eliminate waste, reduces costs, and improves product or service quality. The purpose of research presenting a scale for measuring lean service that included five steps: pilot items, measurement of expert validity, Extraction of factors via EFA, Confirmation of extracted factors via CFA and determine reliability. Lean Service Scale (LSS) included 27 items in six dimensions: lean structure, lean inventory, lean Maintain and Repair (MR), lean movement and lean staff. Index Terms— lean thinking - Principal components analysis – service management. I. INTRODUCTION In recent years, Globalization accompanying with increasing competition have forced companies to seek new production and management systems that eliminate waste and control costs [1]. that Lean System is one of those cases. The term lean was not coined till the 1990s. Lean manufacturing is a philosophy that considers the expenditure of resources for any process that doesn’t add value to the final customer as a non-value added process and hence is a waste that has to be eliminated from the system [2]. Lean theory is rooted in the scientific method and the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle originally developed by Walter A. Shewhart, a Bell Laboratories scientist who was Deming’s friend and mentor. Lean thinking helps define both what has to be done to solve a problem and how work is performed [3]. Lean system is an approach focusing on eliminating non-value-added activities from processes by applying a robust set of performance change tools, and emphasizing excellence in operations to deliver superior customer services [4]. Lean production encompasses a wide variety of practices or tools including just in time, total quality management, total productive management, kaizen etc. but Today, lean tools are not solely for use by the manufacturing industry, more organizations in the service sector such as healthcare and telecommunications etc. are adopting lean tools in order to streamline services and reduce time spent on non-value added activities. [2] that Figure 1 reveals that several lean techniques invented in manufacturing are Manuscript received Feb. 08, 2014. Farzad Movahedi Sobhani Department of industrial engendering, science and research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Zahra Gharib Department of industrial engendering, science and research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Zahra Esfandiary Department of industrial engendering, science and research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran becoming popular in services. Several researchers argue that lean tools and techniques are interrelated and complementary [5]. Lean program described as a success key inside of an company and its implementations can bring amazing results after only a few years that many benefits among them we enumerate the most important ones: efficient use of resources, rapid product development cycle, higher quality at lower cost, greater flexibility, and environmentally sustainable production[6]. Through several authors attempted to examine the validity of lean to services but there is yet a strong lack of scale for measuring lean service so the aim of the study is to develop scale for measuring lean in service sectors. II. LITERATURE REVIEW: A. Lean service: The perspectives of Lean are very much depending upon the industry, the source, how long the organization has been learning about Lean, and what that organization's real objectives are for adopting Lean[6]. From viewpoint of some researchers, Lean system is perceived to consist of two levels: lean philosophy and lean practices while to others it is a three-level system, lean Lean service scale: developing and validating a scale Farzad Movahedi Sobhani, Zahra Gharib, Zahra Esfandiary
  • 2. Lean service scale: developing and validating a scale 210 www.erpublication.org philosophy, lean principles and lean practices [5]. that shown in table1. Levels Descriptive lean philosophy focuses on improving the value from customer perspective by eliminating waste from processes lean principles involves the five principles introduced by Womack and Jones (1996) which are a roadmap to achieve the first level lean practices is necessary to reflect the previous two levels practically and subsequently, it represents the actions to be taken Table (1): Lean system levels Lean is basically all about getting the right things to the right place, at the right time, in the right quantity while minimizing waste and being flexible and open to change. As it stands the method is resultfull, comparatively with the investments, but as it involves all employees all of these concepts have to be understood, appreciated and embraced by them. Being directed for performance, lean is the way for the continuous growth of a business [6]. Lean approaches help managers recognize and reduce the waste in processes. Wastes are activities that add no value from a customer perspective, including [7]: Waiting—waiting for the next event to occur or next work activity Motion—unnecessary movement by employees in the system Transportation— unnecessary movement of the product in a system (patient, specimens, materials) Defects—time spent doing something incorrectly, inspecting for errors, or correcting errors Over processing—doing work that is not valued by the customer or caused by definitions of quality that are not aligned with patient needs Overproduction—doing more than what is needed by the customer or doing it sooner than needed In the following, Munteanu and Olteanu (2007) will summarize an example of a lean implementation program. The main steps would be: 1. Senior management to agree and discuss their lean vision; 2. Management brainstorm to identify project leader and set objectives; 3. Communicate plan and vision to the workforce; 4. Ask for volunteers to form the Lean Implementation team (5-7 works best, all from different departments); 5. Appoint members of the Lean Manufacturing Implementation Team; 6. Train the Implementation Team in the various lean tools - make a point of trying to visit other noncompeting businesses which have implemented lean; 7. Select a Pilot Project 8. Run the pilot for 2-3 months - evaluate, review and learn from your mistakes; 9. Roll out pilot to other factory areas; 10. Evaluate results, encourage feedback; Once you are satisfied that you have a habitual program; consider introducing the next lean tool. Select the one which will give you the biggest return for your business[6]. B. Factor analysis: In many instances, researchers are interested in variables that cannot be directly observed, such as achievement, intelligence, or beliefs. In research methodology, authors use terms such as latent variables or factors to describe unobserved variables. They attempt to gain information about latent factors through observable variables. Factor analysis is statistical technique that one can use [8]. While factor analysis has origins dating back 100 years through the work of Pearson and Spearman, the practical application of this approach has been suggested to be in fact a modern occurrence [9]. Factor analysis is a multivariate statistical procedure that has many uses, three of which will be briefly noted here. Firstly, factor analysis reduces a large number of variables into a smaller set of variables (also referred to as factors). Secondly, it establishes underlying dimensions between measured variables and latent constructs, thereby allowing the formation and refinement of theory. Thirdly, it provides construct validity evidence of self-reporting scales [9]. There are two major classes of factor analysis: Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). In EFA, the investigator has no expectations of the number or nature of the variables and as the title suggests, is exploratory in nature. That is, it allows the researcher to explore the main dimensions to generate a theory, or model from a relatively large set of latent constructs often represented by a set of items[9]. CFA is a confirmatory technique—it is theory driven. Therefore, the planning of the analysis is driven by the theoretical relationships among the observed and unobserved variables. When a CFA is conducted, the researcher uses a hypothesized model to estimate a population covariance matrix that is compared with the observed covariance matrix. Technically, the researcher wants to minimize the difference between the estimated and observed matrices [8]. in fact, in CFA the researcher uses this approach to test a proposed theory (CFA is a form of structural equation modeling), or model and in contrast to EFA, has assumptions and expectations based on priori theory regarding the number of factors, and which factor theories or models best fit[9]. III. METHODOLOGY: As we said, the main objective of research is development and validation a scale for measurement lean service. Therefor the researchers follow five steps: Step1: items pool Step2: measurement of expert validity Step3: Extraction of factors via EFA Step4: Confirmation of extracted factors via CFA Step5: determine reliability In first step, for determination of initiative items, we study different articles and books in field of lean that two major sources include Liker (2004)[10] and AlemTajbriz (2009)[11]. According to Liker (2004)[10] there are eight major types of non-value-adding activities in business or manufacturing
  • 3. International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR) ISSN: 2321-0869, Volume-2, Issue-2, February 2014 211 www.erpublication.org processes identified, included: Overproduction , Waiting (time on hand), Transportation or conveyance, Over processing or incorrect processing, Excess inventory, Unnecessary movement, Defects and Unused employee creativity. Liker (2004)[10] points out that the application is also valid for other processes other than manufacturing processes, such as information or service processes. Also, AllemTajbriz (2009)[11] noted that other three important wastes can exist in organizations that included: Environmental waste, maintenance and repair (M.R), Organizational problem. In the step was prepared 87 items as pilot items. For measurement of expert validity is used CVR that was developed by C. H. Lawshe. Lawshe (1975)[12] provided a table of critical values for the CVR by which a test evaluator could determine, for a pool of the subject matter expert raters (SMEs) of a given size, the size of a calculated CVR necessary to exceed chance expectation. CVR before hitting its ceiling value at the case of 7 SMEs is minimum value = .99. in the research is used five experts that eliminated 29 items. For Extraction of factors via EFA (step3), 58 items setting out the form of a questionnaire and distributed in the ports and maritime organization (PMO) Margin of Caspian Sea in Iran. In this research, from 187 questionnaires that had been distributed in the ports and maritime organization (PMO) Margin of Caspian Sea in Iran., 13 of them (6.95 %) hadn’t been returned, 6 of them (3.20 %) weren’t completed and 98 of them were completed that were ready for analyzing a rate equal with 89.84 % that is a good rate. The samples of 98 respondents were 92.9 percent male and 7.1 percent female, and most of them were below 40 year of age. In step 4, PLS Smart software used for Confirmation of extracted factors via CFA that the results shown in next section. Finally, Alpha Cronbach examined for determination of reliability via SPSS19. Findings: This stage, after validating of Experts and obtain 58 items, is Extraction of factors via EFA by using SPSS 19. Exploratory Factor Analysis includes four steps: Step 1: Is the data suitable for factor analysis? Before doing Factor analysis, should be done items purification that is used from Corrected Item-Total Correlation (CITC) are used. If the items value was less than 0.3 must be eliminated from the analysis. According to the results from the 54 items, 8 items will be removed. To ensure first whether factor analysis in this study is permitted and fit there or not sampling, KMO and Bartlett's Test of Sphericity was calculated. The KMO index ranges from 0 to 1, with 0.50 considered suitable for factor analysis. The Bartlett's Test of Sphericity should be significant (p<.05) for factor analysis to be suitable [8]. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy. .727 Bartlett's Test of Sphericity Approx. Chi-Square 8288.16 1 df 1431 Sig. .000 Table (2): the results of Measure of Sampling Adequacy Step 2: How will the factors be extracted? Principal components analysis (PCA) used for extraction factors because some researchers suggested using PCA in establishing preliminary solutions in EFA [13]. The aim of rotation is to simplify the factor structure of a group of items, or in other words, high item loadings on one factor and smaller item loadings on the remaining factor solutions. For Recognizing the contribution of factors in explaining the variance of each item is used eigenvalues that if item was eigenvalues less than 0.3, so that option will be removed from the exploratory factor analysis, the next step will be. In the research any items wasn't less than 0.3. Table (3): the contribution of factors in explaining the variance of each item Step 3: What criteria will assist in determining factor extraction? The aim of the data extraction is reduce a large number of items into factors. In order to produce scale unidimensionality, and simplify the factor solutions several criteria are available to researchers. One of the extraction rules include Kaiser's criteria that should eigenvalue > 1. In the research a total of 10 components (factors) having an eigenvalue >1
  • 4. Lean service scale: developing and validating a scale 212 www.erpublication.org Component Initial Eigenvalues Extraction Sums of Squared Loadings Rotation Sums of Squared Loadings Total % of Variance Cumulative % Total % of Variance Cumulative % Total % of Variance Cumulative % 1 14.779 32.129 32.129 14.779 32.129 32.129 5.649 12.281 12.281 2 4.699 10.215 42.344 4.699 10.215 42.344 5.575 12.121 24.402 3 3.092 6.723 49.066 3.092 6.723 49.066 5.018 10.908 35.310 4 2.395 5.207 54.274 2.395 5.207 54.274 4.294 9.334 44.644 5 2.249 4.889 59.163 2.249 4.889 59.163 2.701 5.871 50.515 6 1.622 3.525 62.688 1.622 3.525 62.688 2.676 5.817 56.333 7 1.355 2.946 65.635 1.355 2.946 65.635 2.286 4.969 61.302 8 1.302 2.830 68.464 1.302 2.830 68.464 2.177 4.732 66.034 9 1.157 2.516 70.980 1.157 2.516 70.980 1.818 3.951 69.985 10 1.107 2.406 73.386 1.107 2.406 73.386 1.565 3.401 73.386 Table (4): Total Variance Explained Step 4: Selection of Rotational Method: Another consideration when deciding how many factors you will analyses your data is whether a variable might relate to more than one factor. Rotation maximizes high item loadings and minimizes low item loadings, therefore producing a more interpretable and simplified solution. The research is used Varimax with Kaiser Normalization. Component 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 Item8 0.543 Item21 0.446 Item32 0.488 Item41 0.595 Item43 0.697 Item49 0.649 Item50 0.813 Item51 0.798 Item52 0.528 Item53 0.672 Item54 0.66 Item6 0.625 Item7 0.701 Item11 0.751 Item19 0.663 Item24 0.493 Item25 0.703 Item27 0.696 Item44 0.509 Item12 0.686 Item13 0.768 Item14 0.717 Item15 0.78 Item16 0.629 Item17 0.503 Item18 0.547 Item 37 0.727 Item 38 0.769 Item40 0.306
  • 5. International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR) ISSN: 2321-0869, Volume-2, Issue-2, February 2014 213 www.erpublication.org Item5 0.773 Item26 0.624 Item29 0.462 Item46 0.791 Item47 0.794 Item48 0.73 item4 0.531 Item23 0.418 Item34 0.556 Item42 0.723 Item9 0.584 Item10 0.759 Item22 0.618 Item31 0.446 Item32 0.484 Item2 -0.711 Item35 0.629 Item36 0.533 Table (5): Rotated Component Matrix For determining validity, convergent validity was assessed for all indicators. For this purpose is applied from confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) by using PLS Smart. Factor loadings should were higher than 0.7. The results of factor loadings shown in table ( 5 ). From remaining 47 items, 19 items were eliminated. 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 Item8 0.646 Item21 0.716 Item32 0.689 Item41 0.608 Item43 0.696 Item49 0.811 Item50 0.814 Item51 0.711 Item52 0.675 Item53 0.749 Item54 0.813 Item6 0.736 Item7 0.836 Item11 0.803 Item19 0.791 Item24 0.671 Item25 0.738 Item27 0.823 Item44 0.540 Item12 0.808 Item13 0.738 Item14 0.686 Item15 0.839 Item16 0.756 Item17 0.742 Item18 0.696 Item 37 0.518 Item 38 0.486 Item40 0.531 Item5 0.550 Item26 0.676 Item29 0.731 Item46 0.813
  • 6. Lean service scale: developing and validating a scale 214 www.erpublication.org Item47 0.845 Item48 0.791 item4 0.661 Item23 0.797 Item34 0.893 Item42 0.732 Item9 0.642 Item10 0.769 Item22 0.865 Item31 0.759 Item2 0.306 Item35 0.659 Item36 0.855 Table (6 ): The results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) by using PLS Smart software For determining reliability of the scale in this research, used Cronbach's alpha. Total Cronbach’s alpha was 0.939 .So the questionnaire reliability is acceptable. Only thirty six item eliminated because Cronbach's Alpha is increased if the item Deleted. . Items Scale Mean if Item Deleted Scale Variance if Item Deleted Corrected Item-Total Correlation Cronbach's Alpha if Item Deleted S21 78.2917 288.615 .688 .935 S49 78.4167 283.909 .682 .935 S50 78.3333 293.505 .534 .937 S51 78.3929 300.096 .425 .938 S53 78.1548 292.012 .549 .937 S54 78.2143 284.577 .653 .936 S6 78.1786 293.333 .577 .937 S7 78.0417 289.441 .720 .935 S11 78.0357 287.819 .642 .936 S19 78.1071 288.899 .686 .936 S25 77.9821 292.221 .544 .937 S27 77.9345 285.930 .713 .935 S12 78.2917 292.004 .538 .937 S13 78.6964 298.991 .388 .939 S15 78.7083 296.136 .503 .938 S16 78.3631 298.891 .392 .939 S17 77.9821 287.838 .664 .936 S29 78.6190 293.004 .564 .937 S46 78.1905 292.047 .542 .937 S47 78.3333 295.529 .526 .937 S48 78.0536 294.171 .556 .937 S23 78.2440 290.461 .639 .936 S34 78.4464 290.141 .714 .935 S42 78.2381 293.823 .520 .937 S10 78.4286 297.085 .488 .938 S22 78.6071 292.923 .621 .936 S31 78.4345 290.606 .606 .936
  • 7. International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR) ISSN: 2321-0869, Volume-2, Issue-2, February 2014 215 www.erpublication.org Items Scale Mean if Item Deleted Scale Variance if Item Deleted Corrected Item-Total Correlation Cronbach's Alpha if Item Deleted S21 78.2917 288.615 .688 .935 S49 78.4167 283.909 .682 .935 S50 78.3333 293.505 .534 .937 S51 78.3929 300.096 .425 .938 S53 78.1548 292.012 .549 .937 S54 78.2143 284.577 .653 .936 S6 78.1786 293.333 .577 .937 S7 78.0417 289.441 .720 .935 S11 78.0357 287.819 .642 .936 S19 78.1071 288.899 .686 .936 S25 77.9821 292.221 .544 .937 S27 77.9345 285.930 .713 .935 S12 78.2917 292.004 .538 .937 S13 78.6964 298.991 .388 .939 S15 78.7083 296.136 .503 .938 S16 78.3631 298.891 .392 .939 S17 77.9821 287.838 .664 .936 S29 78.6190 293.004 .564 .937 S46 78.1905 292.047 .542 .937 S47 78.3333 295.529 .526 .937 S48 78.0536 294.171 .556 .937 S23 78.2440 290.461 .639 .936 S34 78.4464 290.141 .714 .935 S42 78.2381 293.823 .520 .937 S10 78.4286 297.085 .488 .938 S22 78.6071 292.923 .621 .936 S31 78.4345 290.606 .606 .936 S36 78.5833 298.221 .466 .942 Table (7): the results of Cronbach's Alpha IV. CONCLUSION Lean management has been applied across many different sectors and organizations and todays Lean is making a transition from the manufacturing sector to the public sector because Lean management promises to eliminate waste, reduces costs, and improves product or service quality [14]. Despite the growth of the service sector in the global economy and extensive research in the field of Lean but there isn't an appropriate scale for the measurement of Lean service. After doing 5 Steps in the ports i maritime organization, derived scale is consists of 6 dimensions and 27 items. A brief description of each of the factors is given below. Factor1- lean processing: Included items that increase the speed of doing task to provide services. The amount of explained variance (12.281) was maximum amount among other factors. Lean processing included: -To use scientific and effective methods for organizing office, place of teams, equipment, tools and stocks -Mechanized the office operations, to avoid the slow handling process of customer affairs environmental and sound pollution ... at office -The tendency of organization to resolving the different kinds of sound pollution -Speed of repairing and rebuilding the faulty equipment The tendency of staffs to mechanize the operations in the organization- -The tendency of organization to remove the obstacle instructions Factor2- lean structure: included Factors that are related to organizational structure in order that different sectors could do activities better. Six items of lean structure included: To provide the ways of staff's job promotions-
  • 8. Lean service scale: developing and validating a scale 216 www.erpublication.org -Contributing the results of analyzing employee morale in strategic plan scientificlity and systematically. -provide appropriate rewards for good and applicative ideas -to ensure the rapid implementation of ideas by agencies -fit between salaries and incomes of staffs accordance with type of their activity -performing unnecessary handling by workers or more ordinary equipment instead of using special and more advanced equipment Factor3- lean inventory: Set of factors included to get better warehousing and inventory management. lean inventory included five items : -Sorting and queue up the goods in warehouses based on certain principles -Counting and delivery of goods systematically during deliver them to a public warehouse (open-closed) -The timely delivery of goods from warehouses and access to them at the time desired by customers -The amount of not damaging (staying safe) goods in warehouses, based on current styles - To reconsider the wrapping (packaging) in case of failure of goods packing in. Factor4- lean Maintain and Repair (MR): Factors that caused Maintain and Repair to be done properly up to avoid duplication. -Choosing the right type of employed equipment for correct loading - unloading -Accuracy in repairing damaged equipment to avoid duplication -monitoring and regular inspection of equipment to prevent failure -Control of unnecessary traffic in the range of operational agencies Factor5- lean movement: Including transportation between parts and reducing the waiting time is. -To avoid unnecessary goods transportation (between warehouses and pier) -To Observe the distance between the place of loading goods (dock) to the unloading location (warehouse) -To use flexible equipment (multi-purpose) to avoid time using. Factor6- lean staff: Including factors related to employees to determine to what extent they have the ability and motivation to reduce waste. The amount of explained variance was minimum amount among other factors (5.817). -To rebuild and make more speed in port's operations accordance with current facilities -Notice to customers, priorities and needs of customers in the services that offer by staffs -The tendency of staffs to eliminate destruction in the system One of limitation to this study should be noted is scale generalizability. The sample, which seemed appropriate for this particular study, was in Caspian Sea margin, Iran. Therefore suggest future researchers that use and apply Lean Service Scale in other service organizations in different countries. REFERENCES [1]. Karmarkar, U. (2004). Will you survive the services revolution?. Harvard Business Review, Vol.82, No.6, PP. 100-107. [2]. Krishnan Vasudev and Parveen C. Mallika(2013). Comparative study of lean manufacturing tools used in manufacturing firms and service sectors . Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering Vol I, WCE 2013, July 3 - 5, London, U.K. [3]. SIMON R. W., BA; CANACARI E. G. and CNOR RN, (2012). A Practical Guide to Applying Lean Tools and Management Principles to Health Care Improvement Projects. AORN Journal , Vol 95 ,No 1, p.p. 85-103. [4]. Allway, M., & Cobertt, S. (2002). Shifting to lean service: Stealing a page from manufacturers ‘playbooks’. Journal of Organizational Excellence, 21(2), 45–54. [5]. Hadid W. (2012). The implementation of lean system in UK service industries. Brunel Business School – Doctoral Symposium 27th & 28th March. [6]. Munteanu D. and Olteanu C. (2007).Lean manufacturing – a success key inside of a industrial company. International Conference on Economic Engineering and Manufacturing Systems, Brasov, 25 – 26 October [7]. Graban M.(2009)Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. [8]. Schreiber J. B. and et al. (2006). Reporting Structural Equation Modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis Results: A Review. The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 99, No. 6, p.p. 324-337. [9]. Williams, B., Brown, T., & Onsman, A. (2010). Exploratory factor analysis: A five-step guide for novices. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, Vol.8, No.3, p.p.1-13. [10]. Liker, J., 2004. The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the world greatest manufacturer. New York: CWL Publishing Enterprises. [11]. Allem Tajbriz, Akbar, 2009, Advanced approaches in production and operations management - The company's publishing business. [12]. Lawshe, C.H. (1975). A quantitative approach to content validity. Personnel Psychology, 28, 563–575 [13]. Pett MA, Lackey NR, Sullivan JJ.(2003). Making Sense of Factor Analysis: The use of factor analysis for instrument development in health care research. California: Sage Publications Inc [14]. McIntosh B. and Cookson G. (2012). Lean management in the NHS: fad or panacea. British Journal of Healthcare Management , Vol 18 No 3, p.p. 96-101.