Work StudyPub Date : 2003-07-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310479045
Seyed-Mahmoud Aghazadeh
{"title":"The future of human resource management","authors":"Seyed-Mahmoud Aghazadeh","doi":"10.1108/00438020310479045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310479045","url":null,"abstract":"Human resource management must change as the business environment in which it operates changes. Outlines the key challenges facing human resources managers as they move from simply handling personnel issues to making a strategic contribution to the future directions and development of an organization. Demonstrates that human resources managers can contribute both to performance enhancement and cost reduction thus contributing directly to the productivity of the organization.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125868623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Work StudyPub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310471953
M. Rodríguez
{"title":"Flexible working patterns using annualised hours","authors":"M. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1108/00438020310471953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310471953","url":null,"abstract":"An increasing number of UK companies is adopting the practice of establishing employee working patterns under a system of annualised hours to offer greater flexibility. This paper describes the concept, examines the advantages of adopting such a system and gives a broad framework to support its effective introduction.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122676515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Work StudyPub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310471917
R. Ahasan, D. Imbeau
{"title":"Who belongs to ergonomics? An examination of the human factors community","authors":"R. Ahasan, D. Imbeau","doi":"10.1108/00438020310471917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310471917","url":null,"abstract":"Examines the nature of the evolving practice of ergonomics and its aspirations to the status of profession. Identifies some of the confusions and tensions that prevent more coherent development and clear promotion of ergonomics.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129079734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Work StudyPub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310471926
F. Erdem, Çiğdem Şatır
{"title":"Features of organizational culture in manufacturing organizations: a metaphorical analysis","authors":"F. Erdem, Çiğdem Şatır","doi":"10.1108/00438020310471926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310471926","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines organization culture within manufacturing organizations (from the point of weak‐strong and positive‐negative features) through the use of metaphors. These are used to uncover quickly and easily true feelings about an organization. The study suggests that employees in manufacturing organizations have strong feelings about and towards their organization. At the same time, perhaps because of the long history of well‐established organizations, there is a consistency and homogeneity of view. One important finding is that in a period of significant organizational change, employees may have negative perceptions of the organization and its culture. The study demonstrates that the use of metaphors is a useful tool for uncovering feelings towards an organization and suggests that it might be important for managers, researchers and consultants to understand, and be sensitive to, their use.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121810255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Work StudyPub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310471935
David McKee
{"title":"Productivity tools: “horses for courses”","authors":"David McKee","doi":"10.1108/00438020310471935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310471935","url":null,"abstract":"With the rise of the generalist manager, and the demise of the productivity specialist, there has been a decline in the use of “standard” productivity tools and a move towards the application of “management systems”. This paper argues that the range of available productivity tools means that there is almost certainly a tool available for every productivity improvement situation. However, the paper points out that the deployment of such tools must be within a structured framework that manages the overall change process implicit in productivity improvement.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"249 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121948106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Work StudyPub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310471944
R. Hulme
{"title":"One for all: unified messaging comes of age","authors":"R. Hulme","doi":"10.1108/00438020310471944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310471944","url":null,"abstract":"The number of messaging methods and media available – print, telephone, e‐mail, text messaging, fax, etc. – can result in key members of an organisation spending significant parts of their working day simply managing their messages and the resulting responses. Because they arrive in different ways at different times, such management is difficult. Unified messaging attempts to make all messages – however they originate – available via a single interface, allowing priority and importance to be more easily discerned. This raises individual productivity and removes some of the stresses of “keeping up to date and in touch”. This paper explains the technology and suggests that a range of factors has come together finally to make unified messaging a realistic, feasible and effective solution.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126937443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Work StudyPub Date : 2003-04-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310462863
R. Ahasan, D. Imbeau
{"title":"Socio‐technical and ergonomic aspects of industrial technologies","authors":"R. Ahasan, D. Imbeau","doi":"10.1108/00438020310462863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310462863","url":null,"abstract":"The growing global market means that new technologies, and even new industries, are constantly being introduced to new geographic areas. Often, these new areas have different backgrounds, languages and cultures than the area from which the technology is imported. This can give rise to tensions, which can result in strong resistance to the introduction of the technology at one level, or simply less than optimal operation of the technology at another. In order to avoid such problems, it is important to understand the environment in which the technology must operate, and to ensure that its introduction is carried out with a sensitivity to local cultural values. This paper explores these socio‐technical factors, and describes how the application of ergonomics, in its broadest sense, can be used to identify and remove barriers to successful technology transfer.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122295329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Work StudyPub Date : 2003-04-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310462908
V. Khanna, Prem Vat, R. Shankar, B. S. Sahay, A. Gautam
{"title":"TQM modeling of the automobile manufacturing sector: a system dynamics approach","authors":"V. Khanna, Prem Vat, R. Shankar, B. S. Sahay, A. Gautam","doi":"10.1108/00438020310462908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310462908","url":null,"abstract":"Despite total quality management (TQM) playing an important role in the survival and growth of the Indian automobile sector, India is still a player of little consequence in the global automobile production market. The paper identifies various dynamic interactions among the sub systems of TQM. The implications of these interactions have been captured using system dynamics modeling, which is based on causal relationship among different variables that constitute enablers and results. The model results have been discussed and validated based on a case study.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133270296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Work StudyPub Date : 2003-04-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310462881
Michael A. Greene
{"title":"Investing for innovation","authors":"Michael A. Greene","doi":"10.1108/00438020310462881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310462881","url":null,"abstract":"The Invest to Save Budget is a kind of venture capital fund designed to support innovative activity based on partnership working across the public and voluntary sectors. It has been operating since 1998 and now has sufficient evidence of innovation projects to start drawing out generic lessons about the success and failure of innovation projects within the public sector. This paper explains the aims of the initiative, the workings of the fund, and identifies the broad lessons learned so far for innovation, sustainability and dissemination/rollout of successful projects.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134028102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Work StudyPub Date : 2003-04-01DOI: 10.1108/00438020310462890
Thomas Grünberg
{"title":"A review of improvement methods in manufacturing operations","authors":"Thomas Grünberg","doi":"10.1108/00438020310462890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00438020310462890","url":null,"abstract":"There is a range of methodologies and techniques aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of operational activity. Examples are business process reengineering, total quality management and organisation development. Such methods differ from each other in how “improvement” should be achieved and implemented and even what to improve. In this paper a number of improvement methods, together with their aims and implementation processes, are discussed. It becomes apparent from a review of these methods, based on the literature available, that none of the methods presented is particularly adept at identifying what to improve – how to find potential improvement areas. The paper describes a performance factor model and a measurement model designed to fill this gap; they are guides as to what to analyse and how to measure in improvement work.","PeriodicalId":340241,"journal":{"name":"Work Study","volume":"37 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114039460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}