Didik Purwadi

Reengineering for human resource management in Japanese companies: Is it important to be introduced?

Recently, many companies have been introducing a reengineering concept for increasing their performance through getting extreme changes. Reengineering has major similarity for human resource management in Japanese companies, such as job integration, decision making, stressing in education, etc. Firstly, this paper will review the concept of reengineering briefly, then provide a deep discussion on the comparison between the concept of reengineering and human resource management in Japanese companies. Finally, it will evaluate whether reengineering is important to be introduced for human resource management in Japanese companies.

Ergonomic Work System Design for Female Workers at Fish Processing Unit XYZ

Female worker participation in the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sectors, especially in Yogyakarta, increases continuously, but not accompanied by the existence of an ergonomic work system design for them. The aim of this study is to develop an ergonomic work system design for female workers at fish processing unit XYZ. Research was conducted at fish processing unit XYZ, located on Maguwoharjo, Sleman, Yogyakarta, with the entire production’s workers as females. Kansei engineering method was used to filter as pure as possible the voice of customer (female worker) reflecting what is needed. QFD (quality function deployment) was used to design ergonomic work system for the female worker. Results of the research were a house of quality (HOQ) that clearly describes the design of the technical requirements for the fish processing unit’s XYZ manager. There is no specific differentiation between the female workers’ need and benefit and the male workers’, but there is special treatment of the technical responses from the manager to fulfill the female workers’ need and benefit. The priority of draft technical requirements in a row is the use of mixer machines, re-layout of packing area, exhaust cleaning, routine cleaning (at production room), reposition of the ice crusher machine, and overall cleanup.