Methods for Designing Roles on the Automotive Upholstery Production Line: Training Efficiency, Quality Control, and Team Resilience
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Automotive Upholstery Production, Quality Control, Role Design, Team Resilience, Training EfficiencyAbstract
The study examined the role design on the automotive upholstery production line, a critical organizational element that enables effective interactions between employees, aids in their professional development, ensures product quality and enhances team resilience in the face of production overload. The aim of the study was to provide theoretical underpinning for the role design mechanism that enhances personnel training efficiency, quality control and team resilience. The study is of a theoretical and analytical nature. It presents a review, comparison, thematic analysis and synthesis of available data from various sources on the organization of production, human resource development, quality, and working teams. The author proposes the METHODS model, which regards the role design as an integrated system of organizational methods that form a single production effectiveness logic. The role design is considered not only as an element of the operational organization of work but also as a means to increase the adaptability, coordination and stability of the production line.
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