scholarly journals Operator Performance and Satisfaction in an Ergonomically Designed Assembly Workstation

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Shikdar ◽  
M.A. Al-Hadhrami

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects on operator performance and satisfaction of an ergonomically designed workstation for performing a repetitive industrial assembly task. Experiments were conducted in a company with industrial workers using existing and newly developed workstations. Operator performance on the ergonomically designed workstation was 27% higher compared to the existing non-ergonomically designed workstation. Worker satisfaction score was also improved by 41% in the ergonomically designed workstation condition. The new workstation for a repetitive assembly task had highly significant positive effect on worker performance and satisfaction. Special features of the ergonomically designed assembly workstation were an adjustable and adequate worktable, an adjustable and ergonomically designed chair, ergonomically designed hand tools and a systematic layout of the workstation components. 

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Sarboini Sarboini

Performance appraisal is an activity controlling the management of a company. This study is an empirical study that aims to determine the effect of performance appraisal and promotion of their work motivation and their impact on employee performance at Serambi Mekkah University. The research was conducted at Serambi Mekkah University. The populations in this study were all employees at Serambi Mekkah University which amounts to 105 people. Data was collected by distributing questionnaires. Primary data were analyzed with path analysis with the aid of SPSS software. The results showed that, performance appraisal and significant positive effect on work motivation. Performance appraisal and promotion of positive and significant effect on the performance of employees at Serambi Mekkah University. In addition, work motivation can enhance the role of employees in Serambi Mekkah University.


Author(s):  
I Putu Magna Anuraga ◽  
Desak Ketut Sintaasih ◽  
I Gede Riana

Performance is the result of work produced by employees in accordance with its role in the organization. Employee performance is one very important thing in a company to achieve the goal that every effort should be made to the company of increasing. This study aimed to analyze the influence of leadership and empowerment of employees on work motivation and performance of employees. This research was conducted at the Department of Education Youth and Sports Regency Tabanan using sample that 59 employees. Data were collected by conducting interviews and questionnaires. Subsequently collected data were analyzed using descriptive analysis and Partial Least Square. The results of this study concluded that the leadership is significant positive effect on work motivation. Empowerment is significant positive effect on employee performance and motivation. Work motivation is significant positive effect on employee performance. Furthermore, Leadership is not significant positive effect on employee performance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1979
Author(s):  
Nelly Agustina Musabbihan ◽  
Ni Ketut Purnawati

Firm value is the price that potential buyers are willing to pay when a company is sold. The value of this company is very important because it is a reflection of the company's performance that shows the prospects of the company in the future which is also a indicator of market valuation of the company as a whole. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of profitability and dividend policy on firm value with capital structure as mediator. This research was conducted at Property and Real Estate Company listed on BEI. The number of samples taken as many as 14 companies from 42 companies listed during the period 2012-2016 with purposive sampling method. The analysis technique used is path analysis. Based on the results of the analysis found that profitability has a significant positive effect on capital structure, dividend policy has no significant positive effect on capital structure, profitability, dividend policy, and capital structure have a significant positive effect on firm value, and capital structure able to mediate between the effect of profitability on firm value but can not mediate the effect of dividend policy on firm value. Keywords: Profitability, dividend policy, capital structure, firm value


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3502
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Yuniari ◽  
Ida Bagus Badjra

Profitability is the ability of a company to earn a profit or measure the effectiveness of management of a company. The profitability ratio used in this study is Return On Assets (ROA). This research was conducted with the aim to determine the effect of liquidity, efficiency and bank size on profitability policies in state-owned commercial banks and foreign banks in Indonesia. The method used to determine the sample is a saturated sample, during the period 2013-2017. Data collection is done by the method of non-participant observation. The data analysis technique used in this study is multiple linear regression. The results showed that liquidity has a significant positive effect on profitability, efficiency has a negative and significant effect on profitability, bank size has a positive and significant effect on profitability and there are differences in profitability between state-owned commercial banks and foreign banks in Indonesia. Keywords: profitability, likuidity, efficiency,  bank size


Author(s):  
QUTUBUDDIN S. M ◽  
S.S. HEBBAL ◽  
A.C.S. KUMAR

Ergonomics is the science and technology of fitting the activities and environment to the abilities, dimensions, and needs of people to improve performance while enhancing comfort, health and safety [1] The objective of the present study was to investigate the effects of an ergonomically designed adjustable workstation for performing a repetitive industrial assembly task on operator performance and productivity. Ergonomically designed fully adjustable assembly workstations could be expensive for companies to adopt, especially the small scale industries. Therefore, a low-cost, ergonomically designed adjustable assembly workstation was designed, developed and evaluated for assembly of a product in a manufacturing company. Experiments were conducted on the existing fixed height and on the newly designed ergonomic assembly workstation using five industrial assembly operators. The operator performance on the ergonomically designed workstation was 29% higher compared to the existing non ergonomically designed fixed height assembly workstation. The increased performance was due to flexibility and ergonomic design features incorporated in the workstation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-397
Author(s):  
Agustinus Setyawan ◽  
Alden Nelson

Business competition in construction companies is getting tighter and human resource management is one of the essential things in supporting the company’s competitiveness. The right strategy is needed if a company wants to build a strong team by forming highly talented people in a company. This study aims to analyze the influence of management commitment, organizational culture, reward system, career management, and knowledge management on talent management strategy. The method used in sample selection is a non-probability method with purposive sampling technique and the population is employees who work in the offshore construction industry in Batam. This study uses a questionnaire to frontline management employees of the offshore construction industry and the rate of return of the questionnaire is 50 sheets. The statistical method used to test the hypothesis is multiple regression using the SPSS program. The results of the research conducted indicate that the management commitment and knowledge management variables have a significant positive effect on the talent management strategy, while the organizational culture variables, reward systems, and career management do not have a significant positive effect on the talent management strategy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Tia Maharani ◽  
Khoirul Fuad

Profitability is the ability of a company to generate profits. In an effort to achieve profitability, companies must be able to convert and be able to combine the necessary resources effectively and efficiently. These efforts can help in increasing profits earned by the company. One of the factors that can determine the good or bad performance of a company is profit, because of profit The purpose of this study is to study and analyze the influence of Human Resources, Structural Capital, Customer Capital, Good Governance and influence on Company Profitability. The population in this study were manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2015 to 2017. The samples obtained by purposive sampling technique, obtained a sample of 38 companies. The technique of taking data. To get secondary data from IDX. The results of research using multiple regression analysis are: Human resources have no significant negative effect on profitability. Structural capital has a significant positive effect on profitability. Customer capital has a significant positive effect on profitability. Ownership is negative about profitability. Leverage has a significant negative effect on profitability.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ade Parlaungan Nasution ◽  
Denny Ammari Ramadhan

Origin country individual employees and significant positive effect on employee performance, with at value of 3,112 and 0,002 significant value. With significantly limit <0.05, then Ho is rejected Ha accepted.Labor discipline individually no relation to the performance of employees. With t for 0864 and the significant value was 0.390. With significantly limit <0.05, then Ho is accepted Ha rejected.Individual job satisfaction does not affect the performance of employees. With t count equal to 0.228 and 0.820 significant value. With significantly limit <0.05, then Ho is accepted Ha rejected. From the results of an analysis that adjusted R2 of 0.090, this means that 9.0% of dependent variables influenced by independent variables consisting of variable employee national origin, work discipline, job satisfaction.Country of origin of employees, work discipline, job satisfaction simultaneously (together) effect on the performance of employees of a company McConnell Dowell Services Batam. Based on the results of the regression test is known that the normally distributed variables.


Author(s):  
Helisia Krisdayanti ◽  
Maya Panorama ◽  
Peny Cahaya Azwari

Abstract Gojek is a company that offers taxi transportation services that are integrated with technology, using the motorcycle taxi booking application. However, the problem now is the large number of motorcycle taxi driver, causing intense competition, not only in one company but in other transportation companies. There is a rates war (promotion) given by other companies that causes the entry and exit of the driver's and causes some rogue drivers to play two legs. Uncontrolled driver, such as: driver use vehicles that are incompatible with those recorded in the application. And not provided a place to "waiting in passanger" the driver's which causes irregularity of the driver's so that it fills part of the shoulder of the road, the sidewalk that causes congestion. The sample in this study was 200 respondents. The technique uses purposive sampling or sampling based on criteria. The analytical method used is SEM analysis with 7 criteria using the Amos 21 application. From the results of the study, the authors conclude that, 1) Marketing Relations have a positive and significant effect on Driver Loyalty 2) Service quality there is a significant positive effect on driver loyalty. 3) The marketing relationship has a significant positive effect on driver satisfaction 4) service quality has a significant positive effect on driver loyalty 5) driver satisfaction has a significant positive effect on driver loyalty. 6) Relationship Marketing influences Driver Loyalty with Driver Satisfaction as an intervening variable 7) Service quality affects the loyalty of the driver's with driver satisfaction as an intervening variable. Keywords: Marketing Relations, Service Quality, Loyalty and Satisfaction   Abstrak Gojek adalah perusahaan yang menawarkan layanan transportasi ojek yang terintegritas dengan teknologi, dengan menggunakan aplikasi pemesanan ojek. Akan tetapi, permasalahan sekarang adalah banyaknya mitra pengemudi gojek sehingga menyebabkan persaingan semakin ketat, tidak hanya dalam satu perusahaan akan tetapi perusahaan transportasi lain. Adanya perang tarif (promo) yang diberikan perusahaan lain yang meyebabkan terjadi keluar masuk mitra pengemudi dan menyebabkan adanya beberapa oknum mitra pengemudi yang bermain dua kaki. Tidak terkontrolnya mitra pengemudi, seperti: mitra pengemudi memakai kendaraan yang tidak sesuai dengan yang terdata di aplikasi. Dan tidak disediakannya tempat “mangkal” mitra pengemudi yang menimbulkan tidak beraturannya para mitra pengemudi sehingga memenuhi sebagian bahu jalan, trotoar yang menyebabkan kemacetan. Penelitian ini menggunakan data primer. Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah 200 responden. Teknik sampling menggunakan sampling atau sampling purposive berdasarkan pertimbangan dan kriteria tertentu. Metode analisis yang digunakan adalah analisis SEM dengan 7 kriteria tes menggunakan aplikasi Amos 21. Dari hasil penelitian, penulis menyimpulkan bahwa, 1) Hubungan Pemasaran berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap Loyalitas Pengemudi 2) Kualitas layanan berpengaruh positif signifikan terhadap loyalitas pengemudi.  3)Hubungan pemasaran berpengaruh positif signifikan terhadap kepuasan pengemudi 4) Kualitas layanan berpengaruh positif signifikan terhadap kepuasan pengemudi 5) kepuasan berpengaruh positif signifikan terhadap loyalitas pengemudi. 6) Hubungan Pemasaran berpengaruh terhadap Loyalitas Pengemudi Melalui Kepuasan Pengemudi 7) Kualitas layanan berpengaruh positif terhadap loyalitas pengemudi melalui kepuasan pengemudi. Kata Kunci: Hubungan Pemasaran, Kualitas Layanan, Loyalitas dan Kepuasan


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-528
Author(s):  
Indiargo Dwi Prastyo ◽  
Bowo Santoso

To achieve a company goal, its important to looking for employee performance, work environment, and work motivation. Good or bad employee performance can be influenced by the work environment and  motivation, as  well  as  the  Burger  King  company  in  East  Surabaya. Burger  King Company is a company engaged in FnB. This study aims to analyze the effect of work environment and work motivation on employee performance of Burger King East Surabaya crew. The hypothesis in this study is that the work environment and work motivation have a significant influence on employee performance. This study uses quantitative methods and uses PLS as a test tool as well as data collection methods by  conducting surveys. Respondents in  this  study  were  50  respondents using  a  saturated sampling technique where all populations were sampled. The results of the study revealed that th e work environment partially had no significant effect and work motivation had a significant positive effect on employee performance.  Keywords: Work Environment, Work Motivation, Employee Performance  


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