International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management: Volume 70 Issue 6

Modelling the enablers of industry 4.0 in the Indian manufacturing industry

Vineet Jain, Puneeta Ajmera

The vision of Industry 4.0 concept is to create smart factories that will change the current processes of production and manufacturing system using smart machines to produce smart…

Identification of drivers of employee engagement in Indian power companies

Samarendra Kumar Mohanty, Arunprasad P

The purpose of this paper is to extend the scope of social exchange theory (SET) to explore employee engagement and test its application in the context of Indian power companies…

Performance indicators for measuring the effects of Smart Maintenance

Camilla Lundgren, Jon Bokrantz, Anders Skoogh

The purpose of this study is to ensure productive, robust and sustainable production systems and realise digitalised manufacturing trough implementation of Smart Maintenance – “an…

Revised overall labour effectiveness

Marcello Braglia, Davide Castellano, Marco Frosolini, Mosè Gallo, Leonardo Marrazzini

The paper proposes a new workforce effectiveness metric that is a sophisticated evolution of a pre-existing overall labour effectiveness (OLE) indicator. The KPI, named revised…

Performance evaluation under human capital perspective: an empirical evidence

Sujata Priyambada Dash, Supriyo Roy

The study investigates the effect of human capital (HC) on organizational performance (OP) of potential employees. Further, an attempt has been made to develop the fundamental…

An analysis of growth-accelerating factors for the Indian automotive industry using modified TISM

Abhilasha Meena, Sanjay Dhir, Sushil

This study aims to identify and prioritize various growth-accelerating factors in the Indian automotive industry. It further develops a hierarchical model to examine the mutual…

Supplier selection using hybrid multicriteria decision-making methods

Anirudh Tusnial, Satyendra Kumar Sharma, Parth Dhingra, Srikanta Routroy

The paper develops a decision-making model for supplier selection combining quality function deployment (QFD), analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and technique for order preference…

Impact of supply risk management on firm performance: a case of the Indian electronics industry

Ramesh KT, Sarada Prasad Sarmah

The purpose of this research is to study and examine the influence of systematic supply risk management (SRM) on the buyer's firm performance, mainly focussing on the Indian…

Is more really better? Performance measure variety and environmental uncertainty

Pall Rikhardsson, Stefan Wendt, Auður Arna Arnardóttir, Throstur Olaf Sigurjónsson

This paper asks the question of whether more environmental uncertainty affects the design of performance measurement systems in terms of a greater variety of performance measures…

Using method analysis to improve productivity: case of a tap manufacturer

Barnes Sookdeo

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that basic interventions using method study investigations can improve productivity in the workplace. Continuous improvement of…