Developing and implementing a wage assessment method based on the 5S performance score: an application of steel construction factory

In today's competitive environment, the trend is to respond quickly to customer demand and deliver high-quality, low-priced products. To be a global company, it must be the goal of all managers to remove wasted resources and achieve an effective workflow. The most important condition of providing an efficient environment is the creation of a clean and tidy environment that is free of possible hazards. Our working environments tend to be irregular and untidy at all times, due to the dynamic nature of their existence. One of the basic tools of providing this arrangement and order in the workplace is the 5S applications. In this context, especially 5S application which is being used in the industry has some superiorities such as easily carrying out, increasing the participation and satisfaction of the employees. In job evaluation studies, jobs are evaluated according to predefined factors and then their values are defined with respect to each other. Then wage curves are drawn and wage brackets are set for each point interval over these values. In this study, 5S scores were used in the evaluation of success (merit) factor in the internal structure of wage brackets in order to increase the employee's belief in the objectivity of the wage assessment system. Thus, a new wage assessment method, in which both lean manufacturing and job analysis and evaluation system are integrated, has been developed and implemented. This application gave solutions to chronic problems of the applied factory, where workers were slowing or stopping works because of wage increment dissatisfactions in additionally to unhealthy, dirty and untidy work environment and low occupational safety preventions.