Research of the Effectiveness of Various Strategies for the Formation of Lean Competencies of Students

Abstract

The paper examines the efficiency of various strategies for students’ lean competencies formation in the educational process of the university. The relevance of the issue is justified by the fact that university graduates with developed lean competencies are in high demand in the job market. The paper formally describes lean competencies, requirements for students’ personal, professional, and other skills and qualities, action plans, methods, and algorithms of actions related to lean production in a particular field. The author solves the indicated issue by analyzing the pedagogical experiment results. During the experiment, the author tested the effectiveness of four students’ lean competencies formation strategies – formal education, practical training, hidden curriculum, and mixed strategy. Two hundred and eight 3rd and 4th year students mastering undergraduate programs in “Economics (Accounting, analysis, and audit),” “Economics (Finance and business analytics),” “Management (Production management),” “State and municipal administration (Regional and municipal administration)” were surveyed during the experiment.