Quality, productivity and business performance in home based brassware manufacturing units
International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management
ISSN: 1741-0401
Article publication date: 9 February 2015
Abstract
Purpose
This paper examines the ways in which the concepts of “quality”, “productivity” and “business performance” are dealt in the literature to exhibit that terms used within these fields are vaguely defined and poorly understood. The purpose of this paper is to define quality, productivity and business performance along with their linkages for home-based brassware manufacturing units.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper reviews related academic literature mostly since past ten years.
Findings
This paper clarifies meaning and linkages of quality, productivity and business performance in home-based brassware manufacturing units.
Research limitations/implications
The meaning and interpretations of quality, productivity and business performance may differ for other manufacturing units.
Practical implications
This paper highlights determinants of quality, productivity and business performance using key performance areas as applied explicitly for home-based brassware manufacturing units. The systems approach has been applied to understand productivity.
Originality/value
This paper creates terminologies that reduce the existing confusion with the field for applications in academia and brassware industry.
Keywords
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the editors and the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions which greatly helped the authors for making the contents more value adding.
Citation
Prasad, K.D., Jha, S.K. and Prakash, A. (2015), "Quality, productivity and business performance in home based brassware manufacturing units", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 64 No. 2, pp. 270-287. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-02-2014-0029
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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