How Do Employees Perceive Their Organization and Job When Companies Adopt Principles of Lean Production?

Human Factors and Ergonomics In Manufacturing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 157-180

  Seppälä, Pentti ^a   Klemola, Soili ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MACHINING; MANUFACTURE; PERSONNEL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED NUMERICAL CONTROL (CNC); FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (FMS); LEAN PRODUCTION;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 1842580807     PISSN: 10908471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hfm.10059     Document Type: Article

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