Human Resource Perspective Research Articles

The Japanese Approach to Quality Management – A Human Resource Perspective

Unlike the traditional approach to quality control that is administered by quality inspectors at the end of the production process, the Japanese approach to quality control focuses on building superior quality in the production process through the development of team‐oriented human resource management (HRM) practices. Develops a conceptual model on how HRM functions are integrated into the production system in Japanese firms. The theoretical discussion is supported by empirical reports of how Japanese plants in the USA use team‐oriented HRM policies to control product quality.

Multidisciplinary teams in the acute care setting

The culture of organizations is described based on their goal directedness, human resource perspective, political interests, and values and beliefs of the members. Based on these descriptions, a generic process for building multidisciplinary teams in any hospital setting is discussed. The process includes an in-depth organizational analysis and six-step action plan.

Cellular manufacturing: the development of the idea and its application

This article charts the development of the idea of cellular manufacturing (CM) from its beginnings to its present status as a general organizational principle. Using survey data and a case study, an assessment is made of the application of CM and its trends for the future, especially from the human resources perspective.

Economics of Training and Personnel Development in Organizations

abstract The article reviews different approaches to the economics of training and personnel development. Educational and economical perspectives are combined to illuminate these issues. The basis for the discussion is a view of competence as a production factor. The article also summarizes an empirical survey carried out among some 450 Swedish training managers. The concept of competence forms the basis for a discussion of an ‘economics of competence’. This entails a human resource perspective, as regards to obtaining, developing, retaining and using crucial competence for a certain period of time. Bringing together a human capital approach and cost‐benefit analysis, we suggest certain preconditions for an ‘economics of competence’. These preconditions include a long‐range perspective and also probably a need to combine qualitative and quantitative variables at the same time.

ACQUISITIONS: RESOURCE DEPENDENCY VS. HUMAN RESOURCE PERSPECTIVES.

Industries that firms are likely to acquire in are identified from a resource dependency and human resource perspective. These two perspective are found to have complementary abilities to predict the direction of over 20,000 acquisitions in 100 manufacturing industries.

HUMAN RESOURCE AS A STRATEGIC VARIABLE IN VENTURE CREATION

ABSTRACT Human-resource perspective has been relegated to a secondary position in the literature of entrepreneurship. This paper argues that the importance of this perspective should be acknowledged to properly understand and explain many of the phenomena related to venture creation.