Muhamad Jantan
Centre for Policy Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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Influence of Employee Involvement in Total Productive Maintenance Practices on Job Characteristics: The Malaysian Scenario Nasurdin, Aizzat Mohd.; Jantan, Muhamad; Peng, Wong Wai; Ramayah, T.
Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business Vol 7, No 3 (2005): September-December
Publisher : Master of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada

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The main goal of this study is to examine whether the extent of involvement in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) practices has a positive effect on job characteristics. Data was gathered from a sample of 184 respondents derived from manufacturing companies in Malaysia. Results from the regression analyses revealed that the extent of employee’s involvement in TPM practices is positively related to the five core job dimensions (skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback). Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are discussed.
IMPLEMENTING TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE (TPM) IN MALAYSIAN MANUFACTURING ORGANISATION: AN OPERATIONAL STRATEGY STUDY Seng, One Yoon; Jantan, Muhamad; Ramayah, T
KINERJA Vol 9, No 1 (2005): Kinerja
Publisher : Faculty of Economics Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta

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Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) has been recognized as one of the significant operation strategy to regain the production losses due to equipment inefficiency. Many organizations have implemented TPM to improve their equipment efficiency and to obtain the competitive advantage in the global market in terms of cost and quality. In the implementation of TPM in a manufacturing organization, both Human-oriented and Process-oriented Strategy has been identified as critical success factors. This paper, therefore, focuses on the two TPM operational strategies, which is posited, will improve the extent of TPM implementation in manufacturing organizations. This study is an attempt to look at the TPM implementation from the perspective of a developing country such as MalaysiaKeywords: total productive maintenance, strategy, manufacturing, Malaysia