Integrated manufacturing and human resource management: a human capital perspective

Article Abstract:

This study examined the relationship between integrated manufacturing, defined as the use of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), just-in-time inventory control (JIT), and total quality management (TQ), and human resource managagement from a human capital perspective. Data from managers and nonmanagers showed several direct and interactive effects. AMT was positively related to selective staffing, comprehensive training, developmental appraisal, and externally equitable rewards for operations employees and to selective staffing for quality employees. TQ was positively related to these same human resource practices in quality and was also related to the comprehensiveness of training for operations employees. JIT was negatively related to selective staffing in operations and to performance appraisal in quality and positively related to staffing in quality. The two- and three-way interactions had negative effects. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Manufacturing processes, Manufacturing, Total quality management, Just in time inventory systems, Just in time systems

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Control theory in strategic human resource management: the mediating effect of administrative information

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This study examined the relationship between strategic context, viewed in terms of product-market variation, work flow integration, and firm size, and executive use of human resource management control systems, including input, behavior, and output controls. Data from executives in 102 firms showed the following: a positive relationship between product-market variation and the use of behavior control, mediated by the presence of managers' knowledge of cause-effect relations and the crystallization of standards of desirable performance; a negative relationship between work flow integration and behavior and output control, mediated by crystallization of performance standards; and a positive relationship between firm size and input control that is independent of administrative information. These results are discussed in terms of theory development and future research in strategic human resource management. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Strategic planning (Business), Control theory

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Integrated manufacturing and job design: moderating effects of organizational inertia

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This study investigated the relationship between integrated manufacturing, a new manufacturing paradigm comprising advanced technology, just-in-time inventory control, and total quality management, and job characteristics (task uncertainty and interdependence). We hypothesized that performance, size, and external control would moderate this relationship. Data from plant and functional managers and nonmanagerial employees in 123 companies showed no main effects of integrated manufacturing on job design among employees in operations, quality control and assurance, and production control. Rather, the relationships were contingent on organizational context. We discuss organizational inertia and resource availability as alternative theoretical perspectives on the impact of organizational context. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Production management, Organizational behavior, Work design

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