Completed Lean Training Employee August 2016 - Current Monthly Business Area Office of Performance Through Excellence
This dataset contains summary information on completion of LEAN classroom and virtual courses by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employees in support of the Governor’s initiative: “Government that works.”
Lean is a systematic approach to reduce or eliminate activities that don't add value to the process. This approach is based on a set of principles which focuses on customer and encourages a workplace culture of employee engagement and respect for those who do the work. It’s about developing a mindset of continuous improvement and leveraging the knowledge of front-line staff, our subject matter experts, to identify incremental improvements that add up over time.
Governor Wolf is seeking to streamline state services to make them easier, better, and faster to the benefit of the citizens of PA through adopting a Lean culture in PA agencies. The goal is to increase efficiency, remove waste, and to rethink how we do business to improve state services and better meet the needs of our diverse customer base.
While Lean found its roots in a manufacturing environment, specifically through the Toyota Production System (TPS), the concepts and tools and have been successfully applied across all industries. Having previously implemented Lean in his private business, Governor Wolf is currently working with commonwealth agencies to embrace Lean at an enterprise level and ensure front line employees have a voice to challenge the old way of doing business.”
Columns
| Name | Socrata field name | Column name in sgr mount | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Course Group | course_group | course_group | Text | Name of folder the course is contained within |
| Booked On | booked_on | booked_on | Calendar date | When was the employee booked into the training |
| Name of Course | name_of_course | name_of_course | Text | Course name of the training being received by the employee. Providing additional clarity on the type of the course. |
| End Date | end_date | end_date | Calendar date | When did the training end |
| Course No | course_no | course_no | Text | Numeric value of course in SAP LSO |
| Actual Training Hrs | actual_training_hrs | actual_training_hrs | Number | Training hours imparted by the session |
| Status | status | status | Text | Employees Employment status either active or inactive. Inactive employees are not longer with the Commonwealth. They have taken the class in the past and have since separated, however they are still listed as having taken the course. |
| Numerical Identifier | ba | ba | Number | Numerical value of the Commonwealth Business area in the financial resource system. System generated to help with querying the data. |
| Start Date | start_date | start_date | Calendar date | When did the training start |
| Delivery Method | delivery_method | delivery_method | Text | How was the training delivered to the employee? Classroom and virtual session’s content are very similar for the Lean Awareness course, with minor differences in activities. Classroom sessions are taken in person and virtual sessions are taken via webinar in a skype environment. |
| Course Type | course_type | course_type | Text | Groupings of the different courses. The names of the courses could provide more details in the name. Therefore, several different named courses could all fall into the same grouping. Course type is the overall listing that is used to categorize the name the training in the Learning Solution Online system that houses the Commonwealth's training data. |
| Supervisor Indicator | spvr_indicator | spvr_indicator | Checkbox | Indicates whether the employee is a supervisor or not |
| Business Area | business_area | business_area | Text | Name of the Business Area where the employee is assigned |