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EFFECTS OF EMPLOYEES’ UPWARD FEEDBACK IN CREATING NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO STRENGTHEN JOB PERFORMANCE
No full textSince the phase-out of the Multi-Fibre Agreement, the worldwide system of managed trade in apparel exports through the quota system, export-apparel manufacturers had to rethink their operations management strategies for survival and growth. One of such strategies adopted to improve the efficiency of apparel production is lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing system relies heavily on employees’ capabilities for its effective implementation. Shop-floor employees play a key role in the process of minimisation of waste in the lean production context since they interact with the direct operational environment. They have more ownership of the production process and have capacity to make better improvement suggestions. Based on a sample of lean manufacturing system implemented manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka, the study investigated relationships between upward feedback, job performance and the age of lean manufacturing system. It was found that the age of the lean manufacturing system moderates the positive relationship between upward feedback and job performance in such a way that longer the lean manufacturing system is in operation, higher will be its positive effect on the relationship between upward feedback and job performance.Keywords: Upward Feedback, Job Performance, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Duration. For full Paper: [email protected]
LEAN MANUFACTURING AS A STRATEGIC TOOL IN IMPROVING QUALITY PERFORMANCE OF THE APPAREL FIRMS
No full textIncreased competition, reduction of profit margins, pressure on reduction of the leadtime and quality have put pressure on Sri Lankan apparel industry to adopt global manufacturing strategies so as to be competitive in the global markets. Lean manufacturing has become one of the most popular organizational interventions in the quality improvement in the Sri Lankan apparel industry. Purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the duration of lean implementation with organizational quality performance. The population of the study consisted of apparel companies operating in Sri Lanka that have implemented lean manufacturing techniques. Results show that the increase of lean duration increases the level of quality performance of the Sri Lankan apparel firms. The quality performances in terms of rework and rejections shows negative relationship and audit pass rate shows positive relationship with lean duration. Therefore, lean implementation has positive impact on the quality performance of the Sri Lankan apparel firms.Keywords: Lean Manufacturing, Quality Performance, Apparel IndustryFor full Paper: [email protected]
EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM TEXTILE AND APPAREL MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN SRI LANKA
No full textEmployee participation in decision making (PDM) is central to lean manufacturing. However, there is surprisingly little research directly addressing the relationship between PDM and organizational performance in Sri Lanka. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between level of lean implementation on PDM and the effect of PDM on organizational performance in terms of work outcomes in the Sri Lankan textile and Apparel Firms. A sample of six lean implemented textile and apparel manufacturing firms were selected for the study. From these firms, randomly selected 262 employees responded to the self-administrated survey questionnaire developed for the study. The data analysis was conducted using SPSS. The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between level of lean implementation in terms of duration and PDM. Results also showed that PDM has significant relationship with work outcomes in terms of, job satisfaction, turnover intention, affective commitment. Key words: Lean Manufacturing, PDM, Affective Commitment, Job satisfaction, Turnover intentionFor full paper: [email protected]
Institutional Response to Implement 4IR Competencies into Programme Offerings of Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Indo-Pacific
Full text linkThe paper provides results of a study that investigated the response of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions for the implementation of 4th industrial revolution (4IR) competencies into programme offerings. The investigation was confined to TVET in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields at the tertiary level. 470 TVET staff responded to the survey from 15 countries, all of which belonging to the middle-income category in Indo-Pacific. The study examined institutional response covering eight areas, i.e., financial support for digital transformations, support for partnerships, job market sensitivity, support for changes to programme offerings, popularization of programme offerings, support for teacher development, support for adherence to quality, and the overall assessment of institution management in response to implementing 4IR competencies into programme offerings. The results showed significant differences in the institutional response for the eight areas by the institution type - TVET regulatory bodies, TVET teacher training and research institutes, TVET universities, polytechnics, and TVET colleges
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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