Employment In Manufacturing Industries Research Articles

Cloud PLM adoption: a multiple perspectives approach

Cloud PLM system, it is predicted, will be used in all phases of a product’s lifecycle, enabling corporations to share all information between providers, partners, and customers. For business workers, cloud PLM system is a new application model which will universally influence operations and habits. This study references the concept of TTF (Task Technology Fit) and UTAUT (Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology) and adopts quantitative research methods to investigate the behaviour intention of corporate employees using the cloud PLM system. This study help such corporations to improve the intention of their business endeavours when using the cloud PLM system. This study is an empirical research based on questionnaire data drawn from electronics manufacturing industry employees. Through these empirical results, two key findings were reached in ‘Research-Model-1’. Firstly, PLM Task characteristics and cloud computing technology characteristics displayed a positive correlation to TTF. Secondly, TTF, performance expectancy, and social influence are the main factors which affect the behavioural intention of employees. The conclusion of this ‘Research-Model-2’ shows that if ‘PLM use experience’ is used as the moderating variable item, the facilitating conditions and the TTF are important factors that affect the use behaviour intention.

The Effect of Workplace Incivility On The Performance of Manufacturing Industry Employees: The Moderating Effects Of Collectivism Culture and Passive Leadership

The manufacturing industry in Indonesia is an important sector in the national economy. However, this industry is also faced with various challenges, one of which is incivility in the workplace. This discussion aims to observe the impact Workplace Incivility at the achievement of manufacturing industry employees in Indonesia with the moderating variables of collectivism culture and passive leadership. This research apply quantitative discussion techniques. Data was collected with surveys implementing questionnaires and literacy research. Data that was been obtained is then carried out using observations a regression test with SPSS program. The findings of the discussion show this Workplace Incivility has a negative influence on the performance of manufacturing industry employees in Indonesia. In addition, a culture of collectivism and passive leadership moderates the relationship among Workplace Incivility also employee performance.

Employees’ Entrepreneurial Orientation in Manufacturing Firms: An Empirical Study

This study aims to examine the relationship between organizational characteristics, knowledge management enablers, learning orientation, and employee entrepreneurial orientation (EO) among manufacturing industry employees in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The theoretical model based on the Resource-Based Theory approach to employee EO was developed. To answer the research questions, seven hypotheses were formulated. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to the manufacturing industry employees. A total of 386 manufacturing employees of all levels were involved in this study, making an overall 25.73% response rate. This study utilized the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling to establish the validity and reliability of the measurement model and test the relationships. The findings of the study showed that both organizational characteristics and knowledge management enablers have significant influences on employee EO. The results indicated that learning orientation has a mediating role in the relationship between organizational characteristics toward employee EO, and knowledge management enablers toward employee EO. The findings offered several theoretical and practical implications to employees and policymakers. The limitations of the study are addressed and recommendations for future research work are also offered.

The Impact of Green Human Resource Management on Employee Empowerment and Pro-Environmental Behaviour in Pakistan’s Manufacturing Industry

This study examines the correlation between green human resource management (GHRM), environmental performance (EP), and pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) among Pakistan’s large-scale manufacturing industry employees. GHRM is a management approach to improve EP and encourage PEBs. The study assesses the influence of GHRM on EP and employee behaviours and the moderating effect of employee empowerment. Partial least squares (PLS) analysis evaluates the measurement model. The study finds a significant and positive association between GHRM and PEBs. However, there is no direct impact of GHRM on EP. Instead, the study reveals an indirect positive impact of GHRM on EP through PEBs. Employee empowerment moderates the direct impact of GHRM on EP. The findings highlight the importance of PEBs and employee empowerment in the relationship between GHRM and EP in Pakistan’s manufacturing industry. The study suggests that manufacturing firms should adopt GHRM practices, incentivise and recognise PEBs, and empower employees to drive environmental initiatives. It has theoretical and practical implications for researchers and practitioners in the manufacturing industry.

The Role of Green Human Resources Management (GHRM) on Job Satisfaction and Green Work Engagement (GWE): an Empirical Study on Manufacturing Industries

This study aims to analyze the effect of green human resources management on job satisfaction through green work engagement and meaningful work. This research method is quantitative. The research sample of 340 respondents was selected using a purposive sampling method. Research data was obtained from distributing online questionnaires through social media. The sample used for this research is a company engaged in the manufacturing industry. The data analysis used to test the hypothesis is descriptive analysis and Partial Least Square (PLS) Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. The results of the study show that the application of green human resources management has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction. In addition, meaningful work is proven to be able to mediate between green human resource management and job satisfaction. The results of the study also show that green human resources management has a positive influence on green work engagement. The results of the study also show that green work engagement has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction in the manufacturing industry. The results of this study provide information that optimal implementation of green human resources management will increase the job satisfaction of manufacturing industry employees and encourage employee involvement in the manufacturing industry so that jobs related to the environment can be a source of inspiration and enthusiasm for manufacturing industry employees at work.

İŞGÜCÜ TALEBİ ULUSLARARASI TİCARETE TEPKİ VERİYOR MU? TÜRK İMALAT SEKTÖRÜNDEN KANITLAR

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of international trade on employment in the Turkish manufacturing industry over the 2003-2017 period. Specifically, this study analyzes the employment effects of Turkey’s trade with its major trading partners, namely, European Union countries, Russia, the United States, Iraq, and China. The findings of the study reveal that increased exports to the selected countries lead to employment generation in Turkish manufacturing. Both exports to and imports from the European Union countries have positive employment effects. Considering only the sectors with the highest employment growth during the period we can conclude that imports from the United States, European Union, and Iraq have led to decline in employment however imports from China and Russia increased employment in the manufacturing industry.

Urban Air Pollution and Greenness in Relation to Public Health.

Air pollution is the result of economic growth and urbanization. Air pollution has been progressively recognized as a serious problem for cities, through widespread effects on health and well-being. There is less concern from stakeholders about greenness and air pollution mitigating factors in an urban area. This research targeted to indicate the spatial dissemination of greenery, air quality levels (PM2.5, PM10, CO2, and AQI), and exposure to air quality-related health risks for the people in the urban area. The data were collected by measuring air quality at transportation stations and manufacturing industries with Air visual pro, then observing and mapping greenness in the city within the administrative boundary by GIS (street greenery, forest, availability of greenness in the manufacturing industry), and lastly questionnaire and interview were employed for air quality-related health issues. Then, the air quality data were analyzed by using USAQI standards and health messages. Both quantitative and qualitative research approach had employed to explore air pollution levels, availability of greenness, and air quality-related health issues. Moreover, Health questionnaires and greenness were correlated with air quality levels by a simple linear regression model. The result indicated that there was unhealthy air quality in the transportation and manufacturing industries. The measured air quality showed in a range of 50.13-96.84 μg/m3 of PM2.5, 645-1764 ppm of CO2, and 137-179 Air quality index (AQI). The highest mean of PM2.5 and air quality concentrations at Addis Ababa transportation stations and manufacturing sites ranged between 63.46 and 104.45 μg/m3 and 179-326, respectively. It was observed with less street greenery and greenness available in residential, commercial areas, and manufacturing industries. The pollution level was beyond the limit of WHO standards. The result has shown a health risk to the public in the city, particularly for drivers, street vendors, and manufacturing industry employees. Among 480 respondents, 57.92% experienced health risks due to air pollution by medical evidence. High health risks due to industries and old motor vehicles in the city need to be reduced by introducing policies and strategies for low-carbon, minimizing traveling distance, encouraging high occupancy vehicles, and promoting a green legacy in the street network and green building.

Women leadership styles on manufacturing industry employees' job performance: Evidence from Sarawak, Malaysia

Women leadership styles on manufacturing industry employees' job performance: Evidence from Sarawak, Malaysia

Work engagement and organisation performance: the mediating role of innovative work behaviour and moderating role of perceived distributive fairness in manufacturing industry of Pakistan

Work engagement (WE) plays an important role in enhancing organisational performance (OP). Despite the considerable attention paid by developed economies, WE has been ignored in emerging economies, especially in Pakistan. This study used a survey questionnaire to investigate the relationship between WE and OP. Moreover, the mediating role of innovative work behaviour (IWB) and the moderating role of perceived distributive fairness (PDF) are also examined. Data collected from 535 manufacturing industry employees found that WE has a significant positive effect on IWB and OP. However, this effect becomes stronger after introducing PDF as moderator. Moreover, the mediating effect of IWB is also proved. Considering the results, manufacturing companies should put more emphasis on the WE level of employees. WE should be promoted to enhance OP through PDF and by pushing employees towards innovative work behaviour.

Impact of organizational characteristics on employees' entrepreneurial orientation with mediating role of knowledge process capabilities and moderating role of psychological factors in the era of COVID-19.

The study aims to investigate the impact of organizational characteristics and knowledge process capabilities on the entrepreneurial orientation among the manufacturing industry employees in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Additionally, this study has examined the mediating role of knowledge process capabilities in the relationship between organizational characteristics and entrepreneurial orientation among those employees and the moderating effect of psychological factors on the relationship between organizational characteristics and entrepreneurial orientation. The study has employed the survey-based methodology and data are collected with the aid of self-administered questionnaires. This study utilized the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to establish the validity and reliability of the measurement model and test the relationships. The response rate of the current study is 64.66%. The study findings have shown mixed results as one of the organizational characteristics, namely, resource and time availability is an insignificant determinate of entrepreneurial orientation among the manufacturing industry employees in Punjab province of Pakistan. Whereas management support, rewards, work discretion, and knowledge process capabilities appear as significant determinates of employees' entrepreneurial orientation. The results indicated that knowledge process capabilities have a mediating role in the relationship between organizational characteristics and employees' entrepreneurial orientation. Moreover, psychological factors, namely, propensity to take risk and locus of control have a significant moderating role on the relationship of management support, rewards, and work discretion with employees' entrepreneurial orientation. The empirical insights on the study are valuable for policymakers and managers in manufacturing sectors of developing countries, such as Pakistan, to enrich their work performance through the understanding impact of organizational characteristics and knowledge process capabilities on the entrepreneurial orientation with moderating role of psychological factors. Studies on the mediating impact of knowledge process capabilities on the linkage between organizational characteristics and entrepreneurial orientation with the moderating role of psychological factors remain limited. This study is one of the earliest studies that investigate these inter-relationships.

Digital Transformation Strategy and Environmental Performance: A Case Study

Digital technology has drastically transformed businesses’ activities, operations, and processes. Today, digital efficiencies have inspired companies to take initiatives to leverage the firm’s environmental performance. The study’s primary purpose was to examine how a digital transformation strategy affects environmental performance under the mediating role of innovation capabilities and moderating role of digital organizational culture. The data was obtained from manufacturing industry employees in Pakistan. The results reveal that digital transformation strategy (DTS) positively and significantly affects innovation capabilities and environmental performance. The link between digital transformation and environmental performance is mediated by innovation capabilities, while digital organizational culture moderates the relationship between innovation capabilities and environmental performance.

Determinants of Innovation Speed towards Innovation Performance among Factory Workers in Malaysia

The study aims to determine the relationships between the determinants of innovation speed and their impact on innovation performance among Malaysia's manufacturing industry employees. A purposive sampling technique was adopted, and 123 completed survey forms were received for further examination. The findings revealed that, except for autonomy, other determinants such as creativity, self-leadership, innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness significantly impacted innovation speed. In addition, innovation speed significantly influenced the employees' innovation performance. Future research should focus on other factors that may influence the speed of innovation in different industries and how they affect different levels of the organizations.

Increasing workers comfort: experiment of the effect of color and lighting in assembly manufacture

Color and light are the main factors in the car manufacturing industry, with not much research, conducted on this topic, related to employee physical comfort. The factor affecting employee work comfort is the color factor and lighting time in their workplace environment. Color is the light, reflected by an object, then interpreted by the eye based on the light that hits the object. The value of the color wavelength in the spectrum of 380 nm to780 nm impacts worker performance. Good lighting will affect whether or not the room’s light conditions affect the illumination’s value. A good working room condition will affect the physical comfort of employees. Employee physical comfort has developed in many previous studies. However, research on the configuration of colors and lighting in the manufacturing industry’s work environment is still underdeveloped. This research aims to measure and determine the impact of color and lighting at specific color wavelengths on the illumination value and the employee’s physical comfort. It starts with studying the color, light, human comfort, then examines the effect on the manufacturing industry employees’ performance in the wiring installation assembly industry. Color and light settings are proven essential to get better human comfort. Green color with a wavelength of 490 nm to 570 can increase the highest illuminate average lux value of 12.43 %. Yellow can increase the heart rate by 4.85 %, while green can reduce Diastole by 2.95 % and Systole by 1.29 %. Pupillary size changes L by 23.17 % and R by 21.43 %. The effect of green color and lighting time can increase the value of illumination and decrease heart rate, blood pressure, and pupil size so that it impacts the physical comfort of employees.

Prevalence of occupational injury and determination of safety climate in small scale manufacturing industry: A cross-sectional study

BackgroundOccupational injuries are among the most important workplace issues. This study aims to determine the safety climate and prevalence of occupational injuries in the small-scale manufacturing industry. MethodsA cross-sectional study with ten small scale manufacturers participated accounting for a total of 300 respondents. Data were collected from July to August 2020 using the NOSACQ-50 questionnaire. ResultsThe prevalence of occupational injury for the past 12 months was at 18%. The most often injured body parts were hands and legs while among the most common injury types were open wound, burns and bleeding. The mean NOSACQ-50 scores for all dimensions are good. The associated factors are working hours per week, and compliance to SOP. There are differences in the mean scores of NOSACQ-50 between injured and non-injured workers across all dimensions. ConclusionThe safety climate among manufacturing industry employees is at a good level, while the prevalence of occupational injury is relatively low.

The Role of Filial Piety in the Relationships between Work Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intention: A Moderated Mediation Model.

In China, filial piety, which usually refers to showing respect and obedience to parents, has exerted an important effect in the relationship between work stress and turnover intention. However, the mechanism behind this effect is still unclear. To address this gap in the existing literature, we developed and tested a moderated mediation model of the relationship that work stress shares with job satisfaction and turnover intention. In accordance with the dual filial piety model and the stress-moderation model, our hypothesized model predicted that the mediating effect of job satisfaction on the relationship between work stress and turnover intention would be moderated by reciprocal filial piety (RFP) and authoritarian filial piety (AFP). The analytic results of data that were obtained from 506 employees of manufacturing industries in China supported this model. Specifically, RFP and AFP, as a contextualized personality construct, positively moderated the direct relationship between work stress and turnover intention as well as the corresponding indirect effect through job satisfaction. In particular, RFP and AFP strengthened the positive effect of work stress on turnover intention. Based on these findings, recommendations to help employees fulfill their filial duties and reduce the effect of work stress on turnover intention among employees of Chinese manufacturing industries are delineated.

“Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Emotional Maturity of Employees at Resin Manufacturing Organizations”

The present study investigated the Emotional Intelligence Impact on Emotional Maturity of Employees in the Manufacturing Industry. 100 employees from the Manufacturing Industry from Munbai and Navi Mumbai area were chosen for the present study. Simple Random Sampling Technique was used to select the samples for the study. The findings of the study reported that there is positive Association among Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Maturity of Employee in manufacturing organizations. The Employees who are emotionally mature show high level of self-confidence while Employees who are Emotionally Immature show low level of self-confidence. There are three psychological dimension related to Emotional Intelligence which include Emotional Competency, Emotional Sensitivity as well as Emotional Maturity. All these three factors guide a person in handling the complex dynamics of human behaviour in a better way. For the present study an extensive well designed questionnaire was used to collect the primary data from the manufacturing industry employees. Also various HR departments from the same manufacturing industries were approached in order to collect the secondary data.

An Examination of the Moderating Role of Gender on Turnover Intention among Manufacturing Industry Employees in Malaysia

This study investigates staff turnover in a manufacturing industry in Malaysia. Manufacturing is semi-capital intensive industry. Manufacturing contributes to employment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Gross Domestic Production (GDP). Skilled and semi-skilled workers. Manufacturing is one of key success factors to national economy, nevertheless, high staff turnover continues to be disastrous towards manufacturing industry performance. This study employs a second-order construct with moderating role of gender in evaluating staff turnover intentions among 392 manufacturing industry employees in Malaysia, providing a case study of a manufacturing company in the consumer sector. Six variables were studied: role overload, role ambiguity, role conflict, work family conflicts, gender and turnover intention. The analysis was undertaken via SEM-PLS 3.2.7. A total of four hypotheses were tested. Positive results were obtained with respect to role overloaded on turnover intention. Negative results were obtained for role ambiguity, role conflict and work–family conflict. The implication of this study reveals that organizations generally recognize the importance of staff retention for superior organizational performance.

Constructing an active health and safety performance questionnaire in the food manufacturing industry

To design a comprehensive health and safety management performance system, extant literature on the health and safety performance indicators of and management systems for the application of occupational health and safety management systems was reviewed; additionally, the provisions of occupational health and safety laws were examined with a total of three main categories, including 28 active safety and health management performance categories. In the present study, health and safety management performance was evaluated by food manufacturing industry employees. An active performance evaluation questionnaire was developed by adopting the Delphi method to seek professional and expert opinion. With food manufacturing workers as participants, an in-depth discussion was conducted regarding the status of active health and safety performance indicators. Six active health and safety performance indicators were determined: emergency response; change management; procurement management; communication; prevention management; security behavior. These performance indicators have not been sufficiently implemented and require improvement.

Research on Influences of Employment in Manufacturing Industry on that in the Service Industry Based on Bayes Model

Using the data of 285 prefectural and the above-level cities from 2004 to 2016, this thesis reveals the impact of employment in China's urban manufacturing industry on the employment of service industries with the Bayesian model. Under the Bayesian framework, partial linear semi-parametric model is proposed. The nonlinear functions are fitted by using truncation base cardinal spline and considering the random error terms of mixed normal fitting models. The results show that: employment in the urban manufacturing industry in China has significant influence on the employment in the service industry. When the number of employees in the manufacturing industry changes from 0 to 650,000, the manufacturing industry has less influence. When the number of the employees in the manufacturing industry changes from 650,000 to 900,000, the employees of the service industry will dramatically increase. When the number of the employees in the manufacturing industry is more than 900,000, the employees in the service industry will be prone to stable growth.

The Relationship Between Big Five Personality Traits and Counterproductive Work Behaviour

Employees are a group that plays an important role in determining the quality, reputation, and performance of an organization. Personality traits within them were seen to predict employees’ behavior towards organizations. This research aims to examine the relationship between big five personality traits and counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) among employees in the manufacturing industry. Five research hypotheses were examined while considering the Big Five dimensions of personality, which are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness, which are believed to influence the employees’ CWB. Present research specifically focuses on individual (CWB-I). 200 employees in the furniture manufacturing industry at Muar, Johor were randomly selected to complete the Big Five questionnaire. Software PLS -SEM was used to analyse the data collected. For CWB-I, the result showed negative relationship of neuroticism and agreeableness, whereas positive relationship with extraversion, openness and conscientiousness.