Large Manufacturing Company Research Articles

Исследование внутренней функции корпоративного обучения в компаниях РФ

In the context of constant changes and the need to quickly respond to challenges from the outside world, the need for constant corporate training of personnel becomes mandatory for Russian business. Identification of basic directions for the development of corporate training systems and consolidation of best practices in this area is the goal of the work. As part of the research, in-depth interviews with the heads of corporate training functions of domestic large manufacturing companies were conducted, cases and documents were analyzed. According to the results, the corporate training system within the company, its representation and place in the organization’s system largely depends on the personal attitude, vision basic attitudes regarding these areas of the CEO or HR director. Training is not a priority area for working with personnel; in the vast majority of cases, the corporate training function is a service function, the customer of which is the HR director.

Analysis of knowledge management process towards minimizing supply chain risks under the green technology: a direct and configurational approach.

Adopting green technologies is crucial for a sustainable supply process and organization development. In this construct, the current study analyzes how green technology adoption (GTA) and knowledge management (KM) processes could minimize supply risk in large manufacturing companies. The current study utilizes research techniques based on the resource-based view and contingency theories to minimize supply chain risk. The present study selected green variables (learning, productivity, raw materials, and resource utilization) along with KM processes (acquisition, sharing, and utilization) to investigate these connections to achieve the research objective. The author collected the data (203) from manufacturing firms in Zhengzhou city and used PLS-SEM, fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine the study aims. The relationship between the adoption of green technologies and the KM process, which may reduce supply risk, was verified via PLS-SEM. fsQCA is employed as a combined strategy with green technology and the KM dimension to examine supply risk. The study results showed a significant correlation between the KM process's ability to reduce supply risk under the GTA. The results of the fsQCA specify the numerous dimensions of green implementation enablers, and the KM process produced superior results in terms of supply risk minimization. This research contributes to bridging gaps and understanding the interrelationship between green measurement and the supply risk process minimization. The current study provides practical and social justification for enlightening the relationship between GTA and the KM process, aiming to minimize the supply risk. Based on the study outcome and ground information, this study reported limitations and future research direction.

Enabling manufacturing firms' supply chain performance in the Middle East region through boosting the quality of multi-directional relationship, and supply chain risk dilution: A moderated-mediation model

Elasticity and dependability factors are considered fundamental elements that have a significant and direct impact on reducing waste in manufacturing companies' resources as well as their supply chains (SCs) in order to improve their overall performance, as well as improving the performance of these companies' supply chains. This is in addition to not overlooking the effective and important strategic relationship and the role of suppliers to manufacturing companies as a mediating factor in the relationship between the qualities of the multi-directional relationship and mitigating the risks that it may be exposed to during its operational and production process. 156 samples were included in this study out of 743 small to large manufacturing companies in the Middle East region, including Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, where an experimental examination was conducted of the companies targeted in this study to prove or reject the proposed hypotheses. Structural equation modeling was applied and used to examine the proposed hypotheses. The results of this study indicated that the elements of flexibility and dependability have positive, direct, and statistically significant effects on mitigating supply risks, and this therefore works to improve the performance of the supply chain of manufacturing companies, especially small and medium-sized companies. In addition, the results of this study showed that building strong strategic partnerships with dependable, certified, high-performance, and flexible suppliers has a positive impact on moderating the potential supply risks that manufacturing companies may face in their operational processes, while the results showed that there is no statistically significant effect on the relationship between dependability and mitigate supply risks. This research paper offers empirical evidence for using the quality of the multi-directional relationship within supply risk dilution of manufacturing firms’ context in developing countries for enhancing their supply chain performance. This study provides a clear roadmap and basis for managers and decision-makers in manufacturing companies to focus on the importance of the quality of relationships with suppliers and business partners in their business dealings to limit and mitigate the risks that they may face, which may lead to interruption of the necessary supplies to them.

Consumer Willingness to Pay for Food Defense and Food Hygiene in Japan: Cross-Sectional Study.

In Japan, incidents of falsified expiration dates on popular cookie brands and health hazards associated with frozen Chinese dumplings have raised food safety awareness. To prevent the intentional contamination of food by foreign substances, large food manufacturing companies have adopted the concept of food defense. The aim of this study was to assess people's willingness to pay for food protection measures. In addition, the impact of participants' personalities and considerations regarding their purchase choices on how much they were willing to pay when shopping for food and other products were measured. A questionnaire on willingness to pay for food hygiene and food defense was administered via a web survey and 1414 responses were included in the analysis. Univariate logistic regression analyses were performed with individuals willing and unwilling to pay additional costs as the objective variable and other questionnaire items as explanatory variables. A principal component analysis was performed on 12 questions regarding how much additional money people were willing to pay, and the principal component scores and other questions were examined for implications and other information. Approximately one-third of the respondents stated that they were unwilling to pay additional costs and reported a willingness to consume delivery food even if it contained items that were not part of the original order. The first principal component reflected the extent to which people were willing to pay additional money, and if so, how much. This tendency existed even if the individual foods and amounts varied. The third principal component reflected the amount of extra money that people were willing to pay, which was determined by the amount people had to pay toward food safety measures. Those who answered "zero" were more likely to believe that consumers should not have to pay to ensure food safety. The second principal component reflected an axis separating food defense and food hygiene. Some items not directly related to food were correlated with this axis. In Japan, the concept of food hygiene is well-established and is generally taken for granted. In contrast, the concept of food defense is relatively new and has not yet fully penetrated the Japanese market. Our research shows that people who think that clothing brands provided added value to clothing products may have similar feelings about food defense. In addition, food hygiene efforts to prevent outbreaks of food poisoning are common in Japan and have been established as the basis of food safety. While food defense efforts are spreading, mainly in companies, it is presumed that they are valuable for the general public as supplementary measures to routine (or basic) food hygiene.

Impact of COVID-19 on the Manufacturing Industry: A Case Study of 3M Company

The 2019 coronavirus pandemic is the largest impact on manufacturing since the 2008 financial crisis. The impact on the manufacturing supply chain is particularly prominent. Much of the research by economists on the impact of the pandemic on industries has focused on risk transmission and macroeconomics. However, there is a lack of research on the financial status of individual companies and the adjustment strategies of companies in the face of shocks. Through a case study of 3M company, this paper aims to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the manufacturing industry. By analyzing the company's internal financial situation and external environmental impact, this paper illustrates whether the company's adjustment strategy is useful during the pandemic. The results show that large manufacturing companies have the ability to internalize the impact of risks. At the same time, backward integration of supply chain management strategy is one of the best ways for companies to improve the robustness of the supply chain.

Developing and tailoring business process management methods using the situational method engineering approach

Effective business process management is one of the key tasks of every organization if it wants to compete successfully on the market and satisfy the needs of its customers. Although there are many established best practices, techniques, and more or less complex methods in business process management, no approach can fulfill a typical organization’s needs and wants. The key to success lies in developing new or adapting existing approaches for business process management to suit the unique characteristics of individual organizations and projects. This demands a solid methodological framework and a clearly defined work process. The aim of the paper is to apply situational method engineering concepts within the realm of business process management, thereby tackling the challenge mentioned above. As a result, a situational method engineering framework is defined to construct and customize business process management methods. The study proposes the conceptual foundations of the framework and a set of processes for constructing holistic and tailored methods that cover various aspects of business process management (analysis, modeling, management, etc.). The basis of the framework is represented by general method components at a higher level of abstraction, which are assembled into holistic methods via interfaces and are transformed into versions adapted to specific situations using tailoring rules. The practical applicability of the proposed framework is validated through its implementation in a project at a large manufacturing company, where it is used to develop both a general and customized business process management method.

Operations-aware novelty detection framework for CNC machine tools: proposal and application

Digitisation offers manufacturing companies new opportunities to improve their operations and competitiveness in the market by unleashing potentialities related to real-time monitoring and control of operating machines. Through condition-based and predictive maintenance, the knowledge about the health state and probability of failure of the machines is improved for better decision-making. Amongst them, CNC machine tools do represent a complex case from a maintenance viewpoint as their operations are ever-changing and their high reliability brings to a lack, or limited set, of run-to-failure data. To address the problem, the research work proposes an operations-aware novelty detection framework for CNC machine tools based on already-in-place controllers. The framework is based on statistical modelling of the behaviour of the machine tools, namely through gradient boosting regression and Gaussian mixture models, to identify the health state considering varying operations through time. The proposed solution is verified on sixteen multi-axis CNC machine tools in a large manufacturing company. The results show that the proposed solution can effectively support maintenance decisions by informing on the health states while discerning between varying operations and abnormal/faulty states of interest. This solution represents a brick in a cloud-edge-based industrial information system stack that can be further developed for shop floor-integrated decision-making.

Reporting in large-scale agile organizations: insights and recommendations from a case study in software development

Application of agile software development methodologies in large-scale organizations is becoming increasingly common. However, working with multiple teams and on multiple products at the same time yields higher coordination and communication efforts compared to single-team settings for which agile methodologies have been designed originally. With the introduction of agile methodologies at scale also comes the need to be able to report progress and performance not only of individual teams but also on higher aggregation of products and portfolios. Due to faster iterations, production of intermediate work results, increased autonomy of teams, and other novel characteristics, agile methodologies are challenging existing reporting approaches in large organizations. Based on 23 interviews with 17 practitioners from a large German car manufacturing company, this case study investigates challenges with reporting in large-scale agile settings. Further, based on insights from the case study, recommendations are derived. We find that combining reporting and agile methodologies in large-scale settings is indeed challenging in practice. Our research contributes to the understanding of these challenges, and points out opportunities for future research to improve reporting in large-scale agile organizations by goal-setting and automation.

A constraint programming approach to a real-world workforce scheduling problem for multi-manned assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup times

For over five decades, researchers have presented various assembly line problems. Recently, assembly lines with multiple workers at each workstation have become very common in the literature. These lines are often found in the manufacturing of large vehicles, where workers at a workstation may perform their assigned tasks at the same time. Most research on multi-manned assembly lines focuses on balancing tasks and workers among workstations and scheduling tasks for workers. This study, however, concentrates on assigning tasks to workers already assigned to a specific workstation, rather than balancing the entire line. The problem was identified through an industrial case study at a large vehicle manufacturing company. The study presents two methods, one using mixed integer linear programming and the other using constraint programming, to minimise the number of workers required on a multi-manned assembly line with sequence-dependent setup times. The results of the computational experiments indicate that the constraint programming method performs better than the mixed integer linear programming method on several modified benchmark instances from the literature. The constraint programming model is also tested on the real-world scenario of our industrial case study and leads to significant improvements in the productivity of the workstations.

Industry 4.0 maturity and readiness assessment: an empirical validation using Confirmatory Composite Analysis

Manufacturing enterprises’ business operations are expected to be significantly transformed by Industry 4.0 technologies. However, due to a lack of solid assessment framework and procedures to evaluate the current status and readiness to change in the academic literature, many manufacturing firms frequently fail to assess, assimilate, or struggle to implement Industry 4.0 technologies and processes. To fill this need, this research proposes a novel multi-dimensional analytical framework and indicators for assessing Industry 4.0 maturity and preparedness. This framework include-six dimensions and 32 indicators that have been tested with reference to a large multinational steel manufacturing company. The study employed CCA and IPMA analysis techniques to validate the survey data from the case company. The results support and verify the status wherein the supply chain dimension has the highest performance, and the business model dimension has the lowest in terms of Industry 4.0 maturity and readiness status. The framework and index thus developed have practical relevance as it is easy to understand, interpret and validate in any other manufacturing organization. Furthermore, this study is the first to apply the structural equation modelling technique, i.e. CCA and IPMA, to evaluate Industry 4.0 maturity and readiness from a developing country perspective in the context of steel manufacturing.

The virus made me lose control: The impact of COVID-related work changes on employees' mental health, aggression, and interpersonal conflict.

COVID-related work changes have seriously disrupted employees' familiar routines and hampered their lives and work. Although this topic has drawn rising attention, to our knowledge, limited studies have investigated the impact of COVID-related work changes on employees' mentality and behavior. In this paper, we developed a moderated mediation model based on ego depletion theory to test how and when COVID-related work changes impact employees' mental health, interpersonal conflict, and aggression behavior. We collected 536 valid participants by conducting a questionnaire survey in a large Chinese manufacturing company, and tested our proposed theoretical model and hypotheses using SPSS 26.0 and Mplus 8.1. The empirical results showed that COVID-related work changes would harm employees' mental health and boost their interpersonal conflict and aggression via increasing their ego depletion. Moreover, trait resilience has an intervention in the relationship between COVID-related work changes and employees' ego depletion, which weakens the indirect impact of COVID-related work changes on mental health, interpersonal conflict, and aggression. These findings suggest that although COVID-related work changes were inevitable, managers should take measures to improve the employees' mental status and avoid conflicts promptly while taking steps to keep organizations on track.

Transaction costs and costs of activity independence in B2B buyer-supplier relationships: analysis of Central and Eastern European companies

PurposeThis paper aims to identify purchasing-related costs through the prism of transaction costs and costs of purchasing management activity.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a survey among 150 medium and large manufacturing companies in the chemical, automotive and electromechanical industries operating in Central and Eastern European countries. The collected data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis.FindingsThe studied companies carry out an integrated purchasing-related cost system. The authors found a statistical significance of the covariances between the pretransaction, transaction and post-transaction costs. In addition, costs that are of particular importance in long-term purchasing transactions were identified. Moreover, the authors identified the costs of quality and support actions as the most significant.Practical implicationsThis research details the discussion of costs with consideration for the insights of managers of medium-sized and large companies.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the knowledge of purchasing-related costs through the lens of the total cost of ownership that influences the purchasing management and the decisions within the buyer-supplier relationship.

DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING MEASUREMENT FOR LEAN MANUFACTURING SUSTENANCE STRATEGIES: THE PLS-SEM APPROACH

Manufacturing worldwide acknowledges lean manufacturing (LM) as a tool to enhance performance. However, sustaining the implementation has been an issue for them to reap the full benefit of LM. With this issue, this study is aimed to investigate the sustaining factors for LM, develop measurement items, provide valid and reliable constructs for LM sustaining factors, and empirically validate the measuring instrument using the SEM approach. Five sustaining factors and 30 assessment items were constructed by adopting, adapting, or self-developing based on the extensive literature review. In total, 151 discrete medium and large manufacturing companies in Malaysia responded to the survey questions. Following that, the constructs were empirically assessed using the SEM model. The findings show that all of the measuring items represent their underlying constructs and contribute significantly to their respective constructs. Some limitations were identified, including the fact that this study was collected from medium and large discrete manufacturing companies in Malaysia, hence resulting in restrictions on generalizability. This research provided valuable information for practitioners to gain more understanding and develop a plan for sustaining LM implementation.

The impact of environmental costs on financial performance: An explorative analysis of two plastic companies

There is little research on the impact of environmental costs on plastic manufacturing companies’ financial performance and sustainability. This paper aims to explore the relationship between environmental costs and financial performance of two large national plastic manufacturing companies, namely Bowler Metcalf Limited (BML) and Nampak Ltd, between 2018 and 2019 since research allows for five year old information. Further, the study used pre-Covid-19 data to conceptualize. It adopted a qualitative method of inquiry using content analysis to analyze the financial statements and reports of the two companies (secondary data analysis) available in the public domain. The interpretative analysis further supported the analysis and interpretation of the two variables of environmental costs and financial performance. The results showed a positive relationship between environmental costs and profits in the financial statements of these two companies during 2018 and 2019. BML had a decrease in plastic penalties from R 23.171 million in 2018 to R 14.596 million in 2019, which supported a reduction in spending on legal and constructive obligation items. Nampak also decreased stakeholders’ equity from R 10,140.3 million in 2018 to R 8,932.33 million in 2019, which meant that the stakeholders’ equity funds were reduced, possibly due to reduced spending on environmental costs during that period. It can be concluded and established that when these two plastic companies spend more on environmental costs, this positively affects overall financial performance and improves financial sustainability. It is recommended to allocate more resources/funding to support environmental costs to increase the profitability of the two plastic manufacturing companies.

Green human resource management, green supply chain management, green lifestyle: Their effect on business sustainability mediated by digital skills

Purpose: This study aims to empirically test and analyze the role of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) and Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) and Green Lifestyle on business sustainability mediated by digital skills.Design/Methodology: This study involved logistics managers at manufacturing companies in DKI Jakarta and West Java, Indonesia. It is because these two provinces have the largest manufacturing companies in Indonesia. From a late survey, the researchers obtained data from 250 questionnaires that were distributed. Then from all the data, there were 218 data that could be processed for further analysis. This study utilized the Structural Equation Model (SEM) analysis technique with AMOS 24 software in the data testing process.Findings: This study has confirmed a number of findings including: With the current COVID-19 Pandemic, Green Human Resources Management (GRHM) and Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) are needed in Business Sustainability. GSCM has a positive effect on Business Sustainability (BS). Indonesia is also facing a revolution of 4.0 and 5.0, and Green Human Resources Management (GHRM) practice has an influence on BS and is deemed having significant and positive effect. In addition, manufacturing companies support the practice of green environment so that Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practice needs Digital Skill (DS) in enhancing its performance. Also, it has been proven in this research that GSCM has positive and significant effect. Digital Skill (DS), however, has no direct effect on Business Sustainability (BS).Research Limitation/Implications: This study focuses on the scope of green human resource management, green supply chain management, and green lifestyle and their impact on business sustainability mediated by digital skills. The next study is expected to examine the concept of green human resource management in service companies in order to obtain unique findings and confirm the relevance of the green human resource management concept in various business phenomena.Originality/value: This study explains the concept of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM), Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) and Green Lifestyle (GL) towards Business Sustainability (BS) which is a different concept from the concept of Human Resource Management (HRM) implemented in manufacturing companies. In addition, this study discusses the green supply chain in its influence on business sustainability. Also, this study explains the role of the concept of Digital Skills (DS) in influencing Business Sustainability (BS).Practical and Social Implication: This study is expected to be a reference for practitioners, especially in the fields of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM), Green Lifestyle (GL), and Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) in improving Business Sustainability (BS). Furthermore, the concept of green human resource management can be used by organizations as an effective alternative to increase responsibility in increasing business sustainability. Digital skills have a very significant role in implementing the research model.

The effects of supplier relationship management practices on organizational performance and competitive advantage of large manufacturing companies in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of supplier relationship management practices on organizational performance and competitive advantage of large manufacturing companies in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. The study employed an explanatory research design. A standardized five-point Likert scale questionnaire was administered to manufacturing companies' executives, top managers, and procurement managers. Structural equation modeling with the help of analysis of moment structure 23 is used to analyze the relationship between variables. The result reveals that supplier relationship management practices lead to enhancing organizational performance and competitive advantage. Also, competitive advantage significantly affects the performance of manufacturing companies. The study is limited by the effects of supplier relationship management practices on organization performance and competitive advantage over a quantitative research approach. Further, it only focused on large manufacturing companies in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. The study contributes evidence on the effects of supplier relationship management practices on organization performance and competitive advantage. Moreover, it helps the supply chain managers in large manufacturing companies to have a deeper understanding of supplier relationship management and its importance to organizational performance and competitive advantage.

Optimized Energy-Flexible Operation Strategies of Air Conditioning Systems in Production Environments

Rising energy prices and regulatory requirements are forcing both large manufacturing companies and small and medium-sized enterprises to minimize costs and emissions associated with energy supply. To operate the considered systems more efficiently overall, numerous energy efficiency measures have already been successfully implemented in recent years. This is particularly the case for the cross-industry air conditioning systems that are the focus of this paper. However, due to the growing share of renewable energies and the resulting fluctuating electricity prices and CO2 emissions factors, energy flexibility measures are becoming increasingly relevant. In this context, flexibility measures allow industrial system operators to benefit from these fluctuations, primarily using energy storages and optimized operation strategies. However, the implementation of energy flexibility measures requires high data availability, a good understanding of the system, and flexibility in production planning. To be able to effectively use the existing energy flexibility potentials, air conditioning systems are examined, that contain widely used cross-section technologies. In this paper, a method to enable optimized energy-flexible operation of industrial air conditioning systems is presented. A common feature of manufacturing sites is a similar topology of the thermal supply infrastructure across industries. The complex overall system is divided into several subsystems, e.g., cooling supply system, ventilation system and the production hall. Production processes typically release waste heat into the indoor air of the production hall, which then must be cooled. By accounting for thermal and electrical output and optimizing the operation strategy using mathematical optimization, both operating costs and CO2 emissions associated with energy provision can be significantly reduced. The presented use case reveals that operational cost savings of up to 18 % and a reduction of CO2 emission associated with energy supply of up to 16 % can be realized by optimizing the cooling supply system on its own.

Spatial and sectoral imbalances in the economic development of Ukrainian regions: the impact of business relocation

The relocation of businesses (production facilities) from regions where active hostilities were taking place and from frontline areas to relatively safer regions, which was actively carried out starting in late March 2022, helped revive economic activity in the face of the war shock. The article shows that the relocation of business in the context of a full-scale war has led to the deindustrialization of the eastern regions and the strengthening of the industrialization of the western regions. The article reveals that the relocation of business, which was accompanied by a change in the spatial structure of the economy, was also characterized by the migration of economic, financial, investment, and innovation capital from the east to the west of the country. On the other hand, the relocation of a large number of enterprises to regions far from the combat zone was accompanied by tensions between relocated and local companies due to the difference in organizational and behavioral models of doing business. As a result, there was a low level of integration of relocated businesses into the local economy and little cooperation with local governments. The authors identify the main problems most often encountered by enterprises during relocation (first of all, the mismatch of engineering, transport infrastructure and industrial sites in the host regions with the needs of large industrial enterprises; the need to train specialists with appropriate qualifications at the relocation sites; high cost and legal and technical complexity of relocation procedures; loss of resources, goods, and fixed assets during relocation; restrictions on mobility for certain types of business due to their territorial “tying” (primarily agribusiness and large manufacturing and logistics companies)). The article identifies that the change in the spatial structure of the economy is also associated with a decrease in the business activity of agricultural enterprises whose business is tied to a specific territory. The authors emphasize that the temporal and spatial uncertainty of the hostilities, as well as the relocation of business, have led to the processes of reorientation of transport and logistics routes of business entities. This includes the destruction of critical and production infrastructure; logistical problems due to the limited capacity of Ukrzaliznytsya and the closure of Black Sea ports (primarily for industrial enterprises); increased production and export losses due to military disruption of normal supply chains; and a lack of orders and demand for goods (works and services). The article reveals that in the context of the reorientation of transport and logistics routes of business entities, the regions of southern Ukraine suffered the most, where sea transportation became impossible in the first months of the war. In general, the regions of Western Ukraine and Poltavska oblast demonstrated faster adaptation and post-shock recovery of the business environment. The main factors that impeded the resilience of the business sector in the Central and Eastern regions included geographic location (proximity to the front line), as well as logistical and energy challenges.

ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ ЦИФРОВЫХ ИНСТРУМЕНТОВ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ КОНКУРЕНТНЫМИ ПРЕИМУЩЕСТВАМИ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ

The article presents the results of an analysis of the possibilities and prospects for using digital tools for managing the competitiveness of a large industrial enterprise. In the process of comparative analysis, it was found that the use of digital management tools is associated with both clear advantages and certain difficulties. Based on the use of such research methods as systemic, structural expert analysis, the main problem areas in the practice of introducing digital tools for managing big data and making decisions based on them in the field of increasing the competitiveness of large manufacturing companies were identified and systematized.

Effect of Human Capital Management Practices on Employee Retention in Large Manufacturing Companies in Kenya

Employee retention is vital as it brings implications for organizational competitiveness in an increasingly global landscape. Retaining key employee is a vital source of competitive advantage for any organization. The general objective of this study was to establish the effect of human capital management practices on employee retention in manufacturing companies in Kenya. The study specific objectives was to determine the influence recruitment on employee retention, training, job design and compensation on employee retention in manufacturing companies in Kenya. The theories informing the study were Resource-based theory and Job characteristics theory. The population was 181 large manufacturing firms and the sample size of 124. A Human Resource Manager was purposively selected from each of the 124 manufacturing firms. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Primary data was collected using questionnaire. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. A regression model was used to test the effect of human capital management practices on employee retention performance of manufacturing firms. The results indicated that recruitment and employee retention is positively and significantly related. The results further indicated that training and employee retention is positively and significantly related. The results further indicated that job design and employee retention is positively and significantly related. Lastly, results showed that compensation and employee retention is positively and significantly related. The study concluded that human capital management practices on employee retention in large manufacturing companies in Kenya. The study recommends that HR managers should endeavor that their recruitment, selection and retention process always focuses businesses objectives. The study recommends that HR managers should design specific training programmes that target this group of employee with the aim of enhancing their readiness in taking up tasks and accepting changes in the sector. Remuneration of employees who have upgraded should be reviewed according to human resources policy Keywords: Recruitment, Training, Job Design, Compensation &Employee Retention