Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development

The Spread of Lean Construction among Workers in Civil Construction by the Game “Challenging the Production”
Fabiano Barreto Romanel, Maria do Carmo Duarte Freitas, Ricardo Mendes Junior, Gisele Passos Lima Romanel

Abstract
The lean construction runs the management of sites to the production process and continuous improvement. For its understanding, the promotion of learning among workers is necessary. This paper suggests that games can fill the blanks and intend to present the game “Challenging the Production” as an alternative to the spreading of lean construction concepts, considering the civil construction labor´s characteristics. The use of games for learning are still considered an innovation. The experiment showed that the understanding about lean construction is possible and that the game is a pleasant form for this practice. The game was tested with the players approval and for 95,5% of players the game brings fun and learning of the lean construction principles. For 86,4% of the experiments participants, the game helps the learning of new things, 68,2% accepted it as an alternative way of learning that contributes with the concepts memorization and 59,1% thought that the game promotes the business colleagues interaction.

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