.... employee involvement, job design and skill development. Design/methodology/approach We use data of the European Company Survey (ECS) (2019). This nationally representative survey in the EU28 gathers data on workplace practices among managers from establishments employing at least 10 employees. We focus...

.../value To the authors’ knowledge, no previous work captured the relation between MC and TM from a national culture perspective. With more manufacturing economies evolving toward being more knowledge based, research focusing on how talents and skills required for such evolution are related to national...

... relevant information. Three categories of labor intensive manufacturing industries such as category A, B and C have been chosen to perform this research. Industrial category A represents the manufacturing operations which are based on skill of labor. Category B is a group of industries which provides...

... design to applications of advanced ICTs used in the instruction of manual skills. Design/methodology/approach Literature review, interviews, and five quasi‐experimental studies are used. Findings The design of information and its communication is relevant to the instruction of manual skills...

...Connie Zheng; Claudine Soosay; Paul Hyland Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the issues relating to recruiting highly skilled managerial and professional staff experienced by multinational companies (MNCs) manufacturing in six Asian countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines...

... of highly skilled manufacturing managers capable of sustaining the ideas built into the national strategy. Unlike many Western economies, Taiwan is still heavily reliant on industry for wealth creation and employment. Industry still employs over 38 per cent of the working population, while manufacturing...

... Competences Competitive manufacturing Skilled workers Skills Superior performance is ultimately based on the people in an organization … the capabilities that create competitive advantage come from people[ 1 ]. An earlier article addressed the question of the competences needed to support world...