HRMT20024 - Job Design in Manufacturing: CQU Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography examines job design in the manufacturing industry, focusing on modifications and variations influenced by international drivers. It analyzes five peer-reviewed journal articles, each summarized with keywords and critical reflections. The first article emphasizes the importance of queuing strategies in material management and facility design, while the second explores job shop manufacturing and the application of the Robust Design Technique. The third investigates the impact of Organizational Design-Manufacturing Integration (ODMI) on manufacturing performance, highlighting the need for complementary strategies. The fourth article examines manufacturing strategies in the United States, focusing on the relationship between innovation and job growth. The analysis covers methodologies like queuing networks, surveys, and statistical assessments, providing insights into the evolution and challenges of job design in the manufacturing sector.

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Job Design in Manufacturing
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Introduction:
This article aims to investigate the essential modifications over the years to the area of
job design as performed by number of significant Human Factors Engineers/ Ergonomists.
The perspective for this article are the predictable variations and modifications in the domain
of manufacturing that can be shaped by the significant International Drivers that involve a
defensible reaction. This article will draft an outline to highlight how the business drivers work
in the contemporary context of manufacturing. It can be said that the frameworks which may
already be observed are to denote the inferences for essential job design in the field of
significant manufacturing. These associations can also be interpreted as deceptive in further
domains.
Article-1:
Reference:
Sukhotu, V., & Peters, B. (2012). Modelling of material handling systems for facility design in
manufacturing environments with job-specific routing. International Journal of
Production Research, 1-18.
Keywords:
Materials Handling, Manufacturing Systems, Facility Layout, Queuing Networks, Facility
Design, Operational Research, Optimization, Job Routing

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Para- 1:
This research used the time gap as the replacement for significantly budget and skill
management. It is to be mentioned that the gap may denote the repetition of the periodical
time and the jobs that have been implemented in the context of this time. The research suggests
that the implemented jobs may not be completely influenced by the significant amenity design
management. This study highlights the fact that the measurement are significant for the
employees who work in a manufacturing circumstances. It can be said that the measurement is
dependent on the operative practice, crafting the structures of the factual managing schemes
utilizing a queuing network that can be incorporated in the significant job design
procedure (Sukhotu and Peters, 2012).. This research denotes the multiple attitudes that can be
used to predict of the job distribution. The authors have used the quantitative methods in order
to do this research. They have conducted number of surveys and used mathematical equations
in order to compare the information they have collected from different organizations. It can be
said that the researchers highlight the pattern of executing the common queuing outcomes for the
significant Non-Markovian management. They found it important to design the facility
procedure of possible and predictable solutions in order to highlight the specific system.
Para- 2:
I have found this paper significant for the general studies regarding the jobs design in
manufacturing. This research have made me understand the requirement and importance of
the basic queuing strategies in order to manage the materials in terms of the designs of the
specific amenities. I got to understand after going through this case study that the multi-layers
queuing system actually depends on the various performances developed by the multiple

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arrangements of the workforces in terms of facility and the distributions of jobs. This research
leads me to understand that the forming attitude is revealed to offer the significant precise
outcomes rather than the former techniques utilized in facility design made on the basis of the
statistical assessments with consequences after the significant discrete-event reproduction. I have
found that the authors had to experience the research gap in terms of insufficiency of historical
evidences on the field of job design in significant manufacturing. Therefore, I have understood
the significance of further number of researches in order to fill the gap of the earlier researches.
Article-2:
Reference:
Ratnayake, R., & Valbo, I. (2014). Use of Robust Design Technique in Job Shop Manufacturing:
A Case Study of Die-Sinking Electro Discharge Machining. International Journal of
Performability Engineering, 10(2), 155.
Keywords:
Manuscripts, Discharge, Skills, Machine Shops, Electric Discharge Machining, Machining,
Optimization, Business Machines, Design Principles Product, Process Developments
Para-1:
This research highlights on the matter on how the significant job workshops classically
work in the minor manufacturing trades managing the specific job manufacture. As per the
study they shift to the jobs of different sectors when one job is being accomplished. It can be
stated that the quality of the job sector type of significant operation of the manufacturing
industry denotes the multiple requirements of diverse strategies, skilled knowledge,

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frameworks of the particular machines, and the quality of the materials and the process of
the works. The study states the specific circumstance where the procedure of Electro Discharge
Machine is being utilized for the job facilities in order to understand the multiple limitations of
the particular framework (Ratnayake and Valbo, 2014). This is to be noted that the framework
has already number of pre-decided strategies to accomplish improved manufacturing and
value performance. The authors have used both the qualitative and quantitative methods to
analyze the data and to come up with a significant evaluation. It is to be stated that the authors
have conducted number of interviews and survey in order to collect data. There is a chance of
manipulating data in terms of personal interviews of the particular organizations. However, the
information collected from the multiple sources have given a clear perception to the authors
regarding the job opportunities manufacturing.
Para-2:
I found this research significantly useful. This research make me understand the
significance of job opportunities can be limited in terms of time and consequences. It
suggested that one can shift to the other job once one job is done by the individual. I found the
research significant as it helps me to have a clear understanding regarding the multiple
strategies of job opportunity manufacturing are depended on the requirements or the
demands. This research have introduced me with the strategies of Electro Discharge Machine
in order to understand the limitations of the job designs. It offers us a sense of possibility to
achieve this job opportunities through an attitude of 'parameter design'. This study adds a
suggestion in the significant Robust Design Technique (RDT). I found the authors suggestions
useful as they stated that the 'parameter design' emphases on significant planning of a particular
procedure in order to create the practice insignificantly subtle to the numerous reasons of

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disparity. The significant document makes me understand that the usage of RDT enhances the
significant practice of the die-sinking EDM. The research make me observe the dependability
of the significant attitude utilizing an authentication investigation.
Article- 3:
Reference:
Reim, W., Parida, V., & Sjödin, D. (2016). Risk management for product-service system
operation. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 36(6), 665-
686.
Keywords:
Manufacturing Strategy, Structural Equation Modelling, Engineering Management,
Manufacturing Complexity, Process Integration, Engineering, Business
Para-1:
This study aims to highlight the impacts of Organizational Design-manufacturing
Integration (ODMI) performances. It can be said that this performance is significantly
dependent on the significant unit of complications of the industrial surroundings. The study
offers the idea of the particular level of the important usage of ODMI. The authors have
suggested that the ODMI must complement the amount of the complication of the significant
manufacturing circumstances. It can be suggested that the study underlines a hypothesis
regarding the time when an oddity takes place in between the ODMI and the complications of
operative practices of manufacturing fails. The authors have used a quantitative method in
order to make this research fruitful (Reim, Parida and Sjödin, 2016). They have examined the

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circumstances and consequences of job design in manufacturing on the basis of the data collected
from number of surveys they have conducted. This is to be mentioned that the authors have
conducted surveys in 725 companies from 21 significant republics and made a database out of
the data collected from the surveys. The authors have created a quantitative ideal in order to
evaluate the positive facts and factors. It is to be noted that the authors have also discovered
pessimistic impacts on manufacturing operative practice proportions of value, distribution
and elasticity.
Para-2:
This research helps me to understand that the organizations that work in multiple
circumstances in what apprehensions the amount of modifications in the significant procedure. I
have understood after reading this research that the strategies involved in the particular
procedure need to undergo the segregated pessimistic influences of the ODMI complications
oddity. This study has also make me realize that there is a significant research limitations in
this specific case study. Therefore, it is important to understand that there is a requirement of
future studies in this particular sector. The forthcoming studies shall include the expansion of
the proportions of the incorporation of the significant design manufacturing. I have
understood that the manufacturers facilitated with high proficiency can concentrate significantly
in the ODMI performances. However, the manufacturers who have low level of risk can also
invest significant amount in the multiple practices and performances. I have understood how
important is to be attentive for such manufacturers while investing a large amount of money or
dedication. This research has helped me to have an insight to the framework of the emergency
factors and the process of the applications of such factors. This insight leads me to evaluate

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properly the operative practice relationships and the impacts of such relations on job design in
manufacturing.
Article- 4:
Reference:
Doussard, M., Schrock, G., & Lester, T. (2017). Did US regions with manufacturing design
generate more production jobs in the 2000s? New evidence on innovation and regional
development. Urban Studies, 54(13), 3119-3137.
Keywords:
Economic Development, Employment, Innovation, Manufacturing, Working Regions
Para-1:
This article has highlighted the significant manufacturing strategies of United States.
It is to be noted that the strategies are continuously navigating the sources to the actions of
improvement. The case study has introduced number of proofs to denote the modifications and
developments that helps growing the manufacturing opportunities (Doussard, Schrock and
Lester, 2017). However, it is significant to state that this this research has claimed the essential
proofs that the case study have used are incomplete and insufficient. This research have used
qualitative method comprises the regional based company job information for the significant
manufacturing fields of United States. This is to be noted that the information have been used to
examine the influence of the invention actions and activities of manufacturing in order to
contribute in the occupation growth in different districts of United States. According to the
research the occupation remain to diffuse from the different locations of chronological

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manufacturing attention since early years. This is to inspire the inventions and innovation actions
offered significant developments and modifications. The authors have used quantitative
methods in this significant research. They have conducted number of survey to collect the
information and calculated the ratios in order to graph the development in the field of job
design.
Para-2:
This research have helped me to have a clear insight regarding the growth of job
opportunities in manufacturing. The surveys that the author conducted to evaluate this growth
is significantly helpful. It can be said that the chance of manipulating data is less in case of
surveys. This study has helped to me to have a chronological understanding to predict the
contemporary advancement in the job design manufacturing. This research offered me an
enormous scope to have an understanding of the vast sector of manufacturing. I found this
study significantly interesting as this research have also focused on the regional companies
along with the international leading companies of manufacturing. The study offers us the
information regarding the employment not only of different places but also of different time. It
allows us to have a look on also the historical reports and case studies regarding this matter.
This is how we can immediately compare the framework of earlier job opportunities of
manufacturing with the setting of the job options of manufacturing of the contemporary world.
This significant research helps me to analyze the particular industry on the basis of high,
medium and low technologies and strategies and to understand the restrictions or limitations
of the job opportunities.

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Article- 5
Reference:
Cullinane, S., Bosak, J., Flood, P., & Demerouti, E. (2013). Job design under lean manufacturing
and its impact on employee outcomes. Organizational Psychology Review, 3(1), 41-61.
Keywords:
Lean Manufacturing, Job Design, Job Demands–Resources Model, Job Characteristics Model,
Employee Well-Being
Para-1:
This article denotes the applications of lean production for significant workers comfort
and security continue to be indistinct as the earlier study offered contradictory fact findings.
The research highlights the difficulties to recognize the relevant and appropriate typical
strategies of significant job design. This is to be noted that this study has demonstrated the
regular applications and impacts of lean manufacturing for the appropriate job designing. The
research got to adjust and involve the job design strategies and the job requirement–sources
strategies in order to evaluate the process. The understanding of these particular strategies are
essential to offer an insight of this sector to the novice people (Cullinane, etal., 2013). The
authors have found out how the job can be designed on the basis of the manufacturing
doctrines and the impacts and these doctrines on the health oriented results for the significant
workers. It can be said that the doctrines motivate the employees to work for the benefit of both
the company and the individual. The authors have selected the qualitative method for this study.

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They have collected information from different organizations on the basis of number of personal
interviews, compare the information and pen down number of facts.
Para-2:
I have been developed a clear understanding from this specific study regarding the
workers’ experience of doing the significant lean work. I found this study significantly
convincing. This is because the study leads me to observe significant practical examples and
evidences regarding the arrangement of particular jobs under the significant framework of
lean manufacturing. This study has helped to identify the relevant and important strategies to
design a particular job in this field of manufacturing. This is significantly important to identify
the challenges in order to combat with them. I found this study helpful as this helps me to
identify significant number of challenges of lean manufacturing. This helps me to understand
the contemporary context of manufacturing as this study involves number of practical
experiences of different employees and managers from multiple organizations who are dealing
with job designs and manufacturing. This study has introduced me to the previous studies also in
order to compare between the past and contemporary situations and the circumstances. This
comparison helps me to understand significant amount and quality of modifications take place in
the job designing. It also helps me to understand what the further improvements and
modifications require in this particular field.