I just had to look this up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemba

Angela, not quite. I suspect as pikeman has said that it is MBWA in a later guise. Try this link to get an idea of how managers were taught to carry out MBWA or Gemba or whatever it is called elsewhere. You can see it is really about much more than simply 'inspecting' a workplace. Maybe someone is trying to tell you to get more involved, beyond inspections, on the shopfloor? Or perhaps looking beyond issues to see what is good and reinforce that as well as seeing the issues? good luck http://www.futurecents.com/mainmbwa.htm

'Gemba' is part of the Kaizen process of continuous improvement which designs 'safe working' as an integral component of production, consultation and quality. Good introduction has been written by Masaaki Imai: 'Gemba Kaizen. A Low Cost, Common Sense Approach to Management,' McGraw-Hill, 1997. Unless you have access to documents explaining how Gemba is designed in your workplace, you risk going on a hiding to nothing through a 'gemba walk'. The most consistently destructive workplace I've ever visited was a factory in which The General Manager conducted regular Gemba Walks, until he was walked out the door never to return.