The New Era of OM/HRM Integration, to Increase the Turnover and Productivity in Manufacturing Environment

Abstract

Human Resource Management (HRM) and Operations Management (OM) have been the two broad pillars of management. Though these two subjects are studied by separate communities of scholars, in practice operations managers and human resource manages interact primarily on administrative issues regarding payroll and other matters. Basically operations and human resources are intimately related at a fundamental level. Operations are the context that often explains or moderates the effects of human resource activities such as pay, training, communications, and staffing. Human responses to OM systems often explain variations or anomalies that would otherwise be treated as randomness or error variance in traditional operations research models. In this paper we are going to study the interface between operations and human resources by looking into how human consideration and operational consideration affect each other. The outcome of it helps identify new opportunities at the intersection of OM and HRM.