Introducing methodologies that promote innovation and continuous improvement in organizations is no longer optional; therefore, organizations are increasingly using methodologies based on Lean principles. Among them, the 6S tool stands out from the rest, commonly used to establish and maintain a high-quality environment, which it has capacity for due to its status as a kaizen process. Thus, this research seeks to evaluate the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and the Lean 6S tool and, in the end, create synergies between them in order to enhance the 6S tool’s capabilities. To achieve this, a literature review and analysis of Lean 6S and CSR were performed, and a survey was also proposed to further the understanding of the relationship. With the analyzed sample, it can be confirmed that a relationship exists between the level of implementation of Lean tools and the level of development of CSR policies; therefore, companies that have implemented Lean tools such as 6S are organizations concerned with sustainability, and the hypothesis that organizations that apply Lean also have a high implementation of CSR is validated. Future work should further develop this relationship so that sustainability is no longer considered as implicit in the application of Lean tools but rather as part of them. This research proposes to develop the 6S tool toward the 7S tool to facilitate the inclusion of a CSR policy in a procedural and simple way.
El problema de la despoblación derivado de la falta de oportunidades económicas ha sido una constante en la España rural desde mediados del siglo XX. En este sentido, el plan Badajoz (1952) fue considerado como el primer ensayo español de planificación regional a través de la transformación de campos de secano a regadío y su posterior colonización con la creación de pueblos que permitieran un desarrollo económico de la zona. Transcurridos 67 años de la realización del plan, la despoblación en Extremadura ha seguido persistiendo e incluso se ha agravado en la última década pese al incremento poblacional en España. Entre las diferentes alternativas existentes, la declaración de Gredos (2019) pretende nuevamente la involucración de las diferentes administraciones públicas, tanto nacionales como supranacionales, al objeto de promover unas condiciones favorables que permitan el progreso social y económico de las diferentes regiones españolas, evitando no solamente la despoblación de las zonas rurales, sino también una distribución de la renta regional y personal más equitativa que la actualmente existente entre el campo y la ciudad. Si bien en la actualidad, la estructura socioeconómica del país es sustancialmente distinta a la que originó el plan Badajoz y por tanto las estrategias a seguir son radicalmente opuestas, los objetivos perseguidos siguen siendo los mismos, así como la necesidad de coordinar unas políticas públicas encaminadas al logro de dicho fin.
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