The development of essential skills measurement for production workers in manufacturing environment
Continuous assessment and training are common practices used in large organizations to ensure employees are motivated and well trained which indirectly improve the overall production and product quality. Various instruments are used to evaluate skill, examining the skills levels, skills requirements...
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5450/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5450/1/ONN_BIN_SAMAD.pdf |
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| Summary: | Continuous assessment and training are common practices used in large
organizations to ensure employees are motivated and well trained which indirectly
improve the overall production and product quality. Various instruments are used to
evaluate skill, examining the skills levels, skills requirements, skills change and
skills utilization patterns and performance of production worker. Some of the widely
instruments used are UKT, TOWES, CAMERA and CAES. UKT for instance has
been used in Company A for nearly five years. However, the implementation of the
method incurs more cost as the result has to be evaluated in Japan and charge is
imposed to individual worker who takes the test. Moreover, more time is needed to
get the result available to the company’s human resources department. Hence, this
research proposes an alternative instrument called Workplace Essential Skills (WES)
which can produce accurate result in a shorter time, cheaper, simpler to implement
and locally manage. This is descriptive analysis and case study research which
employ quantitative and using questionnaire as an instrument. The research had been
conducted among the production workers from various processes includes assembly,
machine and inspection in Company A. Data had been analyzed using Rasch
Measurement Model with Winsteps software version 3.69.0. The total population is
450 of production workers in Company A and the sample size is 181 workers. The
findings from the analysis shows that the value of Cronbach Alpha is 0.90 for
internal consistency of the instrument. Person reliability is 0.87 and item reliability
value is 0.98, all are excellent values because approaching to one. The value of
person separation is 2.59 and item separation is 7.48. Both values are acceptable
because more than two. The PTMEA CORR shows positive values and it indicates
all items are functioning at the same direction with the construct that being
measured. The Infit and Outfit MNSQ values are within 0.5 and 1.5, and is
considered within range of productive measurement. The values of ZSTD is found
within ±2, it shows a normality of items in WES. Thus, WES can be as an alternative
instrument to UKT for selection and new recruitment of workers and also for
existing workers in Company A. |
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