Evaluating ergonomics and financial distress in manufacturing organization behavior: resiliency framework from operations and strategic management
Abstract
Purpose
Ergonomics usually reciprocate the study about people fitness toward working environment. In addition, financial distress refers a condition of organizations incompetency in generating sufficient revenues or incomes, which thereby refrain them to pay their financial obligations. This study aims to evaluate two independent organizational fields named as ergonomics in first phase and financial distress in manufacturing organization behavior in the second phase. The study presented a resiliency framework for operations and strategic management in the third phase based on various facts received from the distress organizations.
Design/methodology/approach
A questionnaire survey based on plant-visit is presented. The study embedded two segments to explicate its novelty. In the first segment, the plant-visit case study is presented and in the second segment, an exploratory data related to financial distress is presented. The study tried to communicate observations related to multiple decision-making fields in single umbrella, where multiple concepts like ergonomics and financial distress of organizations as well as employees are presented. DEMATEL-ANP integrated approach is used to represent the critical financial distress dimensions of employees and their ranking.
Findings
The study provided insights toward connecting two independent fields named as ergonomics and financial distress in single umbrella. The study can benefit practitioners in designing policies and procedures in their planning model to effectively achieve organizational goals. The study presented 14 financial distress drivers of employees and advocated the aggregation of ergonomics and financial distress toward developing a holistic framework for attaining organization goals for sustainability.
Originality/value
The study presented a comprehensive understanding about multiple organization decision-making fields toward developing a holistic approach from different aspects for attaining organizational sustainability. The study can be fruitful in stimulating cross-pollination of ideas between researchers and provides a good understandability of ergonomics and financial distress in single roof.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thankfully acknowledge the support provided by Professor Nataša Rupčić (Editor-in-Chief) and other Editorial staff of “The Learning Organization” for arranging the reviews for the submitted manuscript. The authors would also like to extend their gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for their detail constructive comments for augmenting the quality of present manuscript. The authors would like to gratefully express their remarks to Professor Nataša Rupčić for making her kind attention upon authors and providing them great occasion to archive themselves in “The Learning Organization”. The authors would like to acknowledge that the manuscript provided a deeper understanding about ergonomics practices, financial distress and presented a holistic framework that can be technically implemented by the managers in their existing portfolio for reinforcing operations and strategic management solutions for enrolling sustainability.
Since submission of this article, the following author has updated their affiliation: Sri Yogi Kottala is at the Department of Operations, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Hyderabad, Symbiosis International Deemed University, Pune, India.
Citation
Kottala, S.Y. and Sahu, A.K. (2023), "Evaluating ergonomics and financial distress in manufacturing organization behavior: resiliency framework from operations and strategic management", The Learning Organization, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-03-2023-0041
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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