... 2016 Lean production Human resource management Fifth, shop-floor workers should be provided with job autonomy to participate in root cause problem solving. Autonomy involves acting with a sense of volition and having the experience of choice that can be exerted over task performance...

... problems and future strategies. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Cellular manufacturing Human resource management Case studies Australia CM aims to obtain efficiencies associated with mass production in a less repetitive batch environment. This is achieved by grouping together functionally...

... organization and human resource management leading to HIWS represent a qualitative leap from a Fordist‐Taylorist past, which represents a radical change from the system which Brown et al. (1993) summed up in the acronym “JAM”: job classifications; adversarial relations; and minimal...

...[ 13 ]. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Flexible assembly systems Human resource management Just‐in‐time Kaizen Performance TQM In this paper the authors consider the theme of improvement initiatives in the field of operations. The initiatives concern the improvement actions which have...