.... 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. The Government set about changing the basis of the country’s economy from mainly agrarian to mainly “advanced industrialised” (Kuo and Fei, 1981). This goal was supported by the development of many...

... slightly better yield levels for similar products than those with less skilled workers. In situations where the plant has grown rapidly and thus generally has a high proportion of relatively unskilled workers, reject rates (yield losses) can be very high. In extreme instances such as in the Babcock...