Purpose: This paper discusses the issues of employee’s empowerment, their training needs, suggestions and other issues related to it. Total quality management (TQM) is a management technique adopted by the most manufacturing organizations. TQM in general is viewed as organization set up which will help to manufacture products at lowest cost by the following various management techniques through...

This paper studies the application of virtual simulation technology in coal mine, and proposes threedimensional virtual simulation training system for coal mines. This system mainly includes “finger oral” and reduction of accident cases. This paper describes the characteristics and development process of three-dimensional virtual simulation training system which can achieve three-dimensional vi...

With the rapid development of knowledge economy, human resources have been one of the most important strategies of all walks of life. The role of performance appraisal of human resource management in the modern enterprise is becoming increasingly prominent, and has become the core issue of human resource management. There are two basic methods, qualitative and quantitative appraisal, in the emp...

In today’s management approaches, quality improvement focused on a company’s business processes plays an ever more important role. Methodologies like Six Sigma are used to improve quality, cut costs and save time by improving processes. Support and commitment of a company’s employees are crucial success factors, so that training and motivation is essential. Role plays are a training method suit...

Organizations make large investment on their employees concerning the training, developing, maintaining and the efforts to retaining them. Employee turnover is one of the most important issues to organizations, and one that needs special attention. This problem is even more relevant when business processes are less depending from machinery and heavily rely on human relationships, being real est...

Four studies examined whether implicit person theory (IPT) regarding the malleability of personal attributes (e.g., personality and ability) affects managers' acknowledgment of change in employee behavior. The extent to which managers held an incremental IPT was positively related to their recognition of both good (Study 1) and poor (Study 2) performance, relative to the employee behavior they ...

Department of Management Studies, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry605 014, India Abstract It is very difficult for all the companies to retain their existing employees. Retaining the talents is the toughest assignment to the HR managers given by the Organizations. Due to more opportunities in all corners of the world, a dynamic employee does not want to stay in a single station. Employee Tur...

Continuous improvement is a reflection of the culture of a company whose goal is to respond to the needs of its customers. It may not only result in better customer satisfaction, but in increased productivity, profitability and employee satisfaction. This paper presents a study of how a continuous improvementbased quality management system might be implemented in the modular housing industry. F...

Introducing and innovating services is advocated as a means by which manufacturing firms in advanced economies can retain or enhance their competitiveness. But little is known about how manufacturers innovate services, nor about the impact of service innovation on manufacturers’ performance. Using two consecutive waves of the UK Innovation Survey, this paper first examines how manufacturers inn...