New Wave Manufacturing Strategies: Organizational and Human Resource Management Dimensions

by John Storey (Editor)

Over the past decade, many companies have adopted new strategies for manufacturing, which have taken their competitiveness on to new planes. A whole array of initiatives, such as FMS, JIT, TQM, CIM, and MRP II, have been introduced. This book deals with the far-reaching significance of these new approaches - collectively labelled "new wave manufacturing". Considerable research evidence as well as practitioners′ own experiences make one crucial point time and time again. The organizational as well as the human resource management aspects of these new strategies are critical to their success or failure. The underlying theme which is tackled in this book, therefore, is to what extent do these new operational strategies require a matching set of organizational and HR strategies? By looking at the issues through the joint eyes of production and behavioural analysts, this book provides an unique introduction to the new developments in manufacturing as well as providing an up-to-date assessment of the organizational and H R dimensions to these methods. New Wave Manufacturing Strategies has a vision which goes beyond the "new technology"/advanced manufacturing technology discussions. The chapters have been written in a clear, accessible manner by leading experts from Europe, the USA and Australia as well as from the UK.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

John is Professor of Human Resource Management at The Open University Business School. He was Professor of Management at the University of Loughborough and Deputy Director of the Business School. Before that he was Principal Research Fellow at Warwick Business School where he lectured on the Warwick Executive MBA and was module leader for the HR course on the Consortium MBA.

He is an Elected Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He was Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal 1994-2000. He is Chairman of the Involvement & Participation Association (IPA). He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the journal Leadership and the Human Resource Management Journal. He is General Editor of Blackwell's series on Management, Organizations and Business. He is an Associate of the Center for Global Strategic Human Resource Management, Rutgers University, USA and of the ESRC Skills and Knowledge Centre (SKOPE) at Oxford and Warwick University.

He is a member of the UK government's Leadership & Management Panel which advises Ministers in the Department of Business and the Department of Education. He is a non-executive director of the Land Command Personnel Management Board, and he is Chairman of the Executive Board of the IPA. He has consulted at board level for Waitrose, John Lewis, the MOD, Barclays Bank, and KPMG. He has been a Visiting Professor at the National Police Training College.