... at the subsidiary-level, which past studies have not differentiated at the firm-level. The authors also provide details of the implementation and management of initial training for newly hired blue-collar workers at the production site. The findings complement related literature on human resource management...

...Jorge Andrés Vivares-Vergara; William Ariel Sarache-Castro; Julia Clemencia Naranjo-Valencia Purpose – Human resource management (HRM) is considered an important issue in operations strategy (OS). Furthermore, OS effectiveness depends on performance in competitive priorities (CP). However, little...

... in Mexican manufacturing firms. Finally, the study has important implications for practitioners in the manufacturing sector. Bonnie F. Daily can be contacted at: bdaily@nmsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Environmental management Human resource management Environmental...

... by the human resource management (HRM) bundle as an enhancer of the complementarity between JIT and TQM. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on statistical analysis on the high performance manufacturing round III database, a survey that involves 266 plants in nine countries across three...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Human resource management Information transfer Knowledge transfer Manufacturing industries Sri Lanka Preliminary investigations by the authors led to identify that all these firms were involved in technology transfers either...

...Daniel Jiménez‐Jiménez; Micaela Martínez‐Costa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at human resource management (HRM) as a key element in the implementation of total quality management (TQM). This paper empirically tests the HRM practices that best fit this philosophy. Design...

... with increasing, though still moderate, levels of motivating work‐pressure, this downward side provides a crucial caveat to prescriptions of work redesigns in operations (Conti et al., 2006 ; Linderman et al., 2006). Human resource management Motivation (psychology) Skills Employee...

...David Bamford; Michael Griffin Purpose This paper aims to report on research into human resource management within an operations management environment; specifically, operational team‐work amongst health care workers in a hospital. Design/methodology/approach Eight operational teams within...

... and Partovi, 1999 ; Power and Sohal, 2000) and/or bundled with other human resource management (HRM) practices (Jayaram et al., 1999). Further blurring the specific contribution of decision making is prior research's reliance on managers' opinions of the degree of autonomy/participation enjoyed...

... Sustainable development Human resource management International standards Rapid industrial growth over the last two centuries has advanced mankind and the standard of living for many worldwide; however, this growth has often come at the cost of the natural environment. In response, many researchers...

... products, human resource management which moves away from short‐term “slash and burn” strategies to the development of skills for the long term, and operations management which looks beyond the usual parameters of costs, linking resource efficiency to environmentally sustainable processes and procedures...

...Damien Power; Amrik S. Sohal This study seeks to further examine the extent and emphasis of particular human resource management strategies in Australian JIT companies through an empirical analysis of survey data. The results indicate that the management of the human variable in Australian JIT...

...Fernando C.A. Santos This article investigates the relationship between the functional areas of manufacturing and human resources by analysing the practices of human resource management associated with the competitive priorities of manufacturing strategy, e.g. quality, delivery performance...

... resource management Operations management Planning Many service delivery systems operate with a workforce that is partitioned into two or more work categories (skills). In this context, cross‐utilization may be perceived as the use of workers to satisfy labour requirements outside their primary...

... technologies Human resource management Management Intensifying global competition and rapid advancement of manufacturing technology are two realities in today’s business environment. These have combined to shift the business strategic priorities toward quality, cost‐effectiveness and responsiveness...

..., there appears to be much misunderstanding between those from the operations management and quality management fields and those with human resource management and industrial relations backgrounds of the perception of the concept of control. Attempts to clarify some of the misunderstandings and widens what can...

... to the profitability and “other than profitability performance”, the relative total performance of the man‐machine resource base of the organization has been assessed. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Employees Human resource management Management Performance measurement Production management Productivity...

... production Competitive strategy Flexibility Human resource management Manufacturing strategy Methodology Quality Time management There is a significant body of work exhorting importance of time‐based competition (see the section “Review of literature”) in the current global strategic...

... and fairly close to critical), and the fact that it is performed quite sparingly. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Human resource management Management Operations management Organizational performance Productivity Service industries Service quality USA The service sector of the American...

... of a particular CIM operation. There are many different ways to implement quality assurance in the human resource management area. To illustrate one way that aptitude testing can be used to implement a quality assurance programme, we will use an example. The focus of this implementation example...