The purpose of the study was to verify, through the use of an experimental method, the assumption that the ‘economic human’ pays more attention to the externality he/she causes as the strength of externality increases. We used a social-experiment design within an undergraduate classroom to test assumptions, using statistical method. A lakeside plant was used as an example. Our results confirmed...

This paper is in search of designing the cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs) under dynamic and flexible environment. CM is proper for small-to-medium lot production environment that helps the companies to produce variable kind of productions with at least scraps. The most important benefits of CM are decline in material handling, reduction in work-in-process, reduction in set-up time, increme...

Keywords Human Resource Development, HRD Professionals, Strategic HRD, Learning-Network Theory, Learning-Path Creation, Organizing Workplace Learning

In this paper we study and analyze a set of Human Resource Management (HRM) techniques understanding their relationship to human productivity. We have classified the HRM for firm sizes which are small, medium, big sized firms. This segregation was done on basis number employees working in firm. First, by theoretically analyzing techniques, it observed that productivity highly correlated, also t...

Most manufacturers use human-machine systems to produce high-quality products. Dealing with human-machine systems is very complicated since not only machines should be utilized in proper condition but also appropriate environment should be provided for human resources. Most manufacturers have a maintenance plan for machines but many of them do not have a proper work-rest schedule for human reso...