Main HRM Aspects of Different Layout Designs and Its Impacts on Staff's Motivation

摘要

The obvious characteristics of manufacturing firms are equipments, machinery and their worker's technical skills. Integration and coordination of these characteristics has a great impact on productivity and flexibility of the organization, which is the main concern of our century due to present limits and importance of staff‘s life quality. Optimized organization's designs -besides modern equipment- can meet the rapid changes in the environment and contribute to the agility and dynamism of the organization, only if they have motivated, creative and skilled staff. Staff's motivation has a great impact on exploitation of the machinery and facilities as far as the machinery and equipments are in control of staff. It is obvious that their moral and motivation has noticeable effects on machinery and equipments efficiency. Analyzing the relations between the efficiency of production process with layout design and installation of manufacturing machinery were highly considered by manufacturing engineers and managers during these years, but their concentration is mostly on the technical aspects of production. Due to their concentration, combined layouts such as group technology (GT) and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are created. In spite of its importance, consideration of motivation and collaboration morale is neglected. As mentioned earlier organizational behavior and concentration on staff‘s work life was in the second level of attention. This article is focusing on staff's motivation and collaboration morale in two different layout design, layout by product and layout by fixed position. We compared theses two types of layout design about their impacts on staff‘s motivation; Regarding to suggest the valuable details of positive impacts being used in different types of layout design. We believe that combination of different types of design about their impact on worker‘s moral can create new types of design to achieve lean productivity.