doctoral dissertation
Abstract
Many organisations invest a considerable amount of capital and resources, implementing new techniques to improve their performance. An effective management of production and maintenance and processes is vital for economic viability and a long term survival of many industries. In fact, an effective and efficient maintenance process is essential to assure asset performance. With this recognition, the asset and maintenance management has become an indispensable element of strategic thinking of asset owners and asset managers.
This research aims to investigate the interaction between quality management, production and maintenance performance. The relevant theoretical foundations and research gaps are presented first, followed by development of a conceptual framework. The framework builds upon resource-based theory (RBT) literature to develop a conceptual framework, mainly to understand how company’s resources could contribute to company’s performance. Based on this theoretical underpinning two main research streams are studied, namely quality management in maintenance and asset management.
Different sources of data were utilized to answer the proposed research questions. The thesis includes two large-scale surveys (among Slovenian organizations as well as an international survey conducted in Slovenia, Sweden, Poland, Slovakia, Greece and Turkey) and two empirical case studies.
The outcome of regression analysis provides the evidence that quality management orientation is an important predictor of maintenance performance. By testing the impact of quality management orientation on maintenance performance, this research shows that strong foundation on quality management orientation is an effective way of improving maintenance performance.
Further, by examining continuous improvement in relation to maintenance performance, this research seeks to examine the role of quality management practices in achieving maintenance performance. In this regard it was found that continuous improvement significantly and positively affects the maintenance performance. In addition, results of this research revealed a mediator effect of continuous improvement on the relationship between quality management orientation and maintenance performance.
Moreover, this research examines the relationship between physical asset management practices and sustainability and operational performance as well. The research is based on a premise that asset management, which comprises of risk management practices, performance assessment practices, life cycle management practices, policy & strategy practices, leads to improved organizational performance. The results of this research provide the evidence to support the hypotheses and to demonstrate that organizations can benefit from the implementation of asset management practices. The MANOVA furthermore provides interesting insights into the effects of asset management practices on the organizational performance. The results indicate that there are significant mean differences in organizational performance dimensions (as measured by the business performance, environmental performance, social performance and operational performance) for low and high levels of asset management practices. Therefore, by focusing on asset management practices, organizations can expect to achieve higher performance outcomes.
In addition a comparison between Slovenian and Polish data subset was performed. The results revealed some distinct elements, namely regarding the performance outcome. For example, the results indicate that Slovenian organizations achieved higher scores in business, environmental and operational performance, while Polish organizations achieved higher scores in social performance.
Keywords
quality management;asset management;maintenance;production;performance;dissertation;
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English |
Year of publishing: |
2015 |
Typology: |
2.08 - Doctoral Dissertation |
Organization: |
UM FOV - Faculty of Organizational Sciences |
Publisher: |
[D. Maletič] |
UDC: |
005.336.3:658.5(043.3) |
COBISS: |
8027411
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Secondary language: |
Slovenian |
Secondary title: |
INTERAKCIJA MED MANAGEMENTOM KAKOVOSTI, PROIZVODNJO TER UČINKOVITOSTJO IN USPEŠNOSTJO PROCESOV VZDRŽEVANJA |
Secondary abstract: |
Mnogo organizacij investirajo velike količine sredstev in virov, kot tudi uvajajo nove tehnike, da bi izboljšali svojo učinkovitost in uspešnost. Učinkovito obvladovanje proizvodnih procesov in procesov vzdrževanja je ključno za ekonomsko upravičenost in dolgoročno uspešnost organizacij v mnogih panogah. Pravzaprav je učinkovito in uspešno obvladovanje procesov vzdrževanja zelo pomembno z vidika doseganja učinkovitosti in uspešnosti delovnih sredstev. Slednje spoznanje je prispevalo k temu, da je vdrževanje in gospodarjenje z delovnimi sredstvi postalo integralni element strateškega razmišljanja tako lastnikov kot tudi upravljalcev delovnih sredstev.
Namen pričujoče disertacije je proučevanje interakcij med managementom kakovosti, proizvodnjo in učinkovitostjo in uspešnostjo področja vzdrževanja. V prvem delu disertacije so predstavljena teoretična izhodišča in raziskovalne vrzeli. Na tej osnovi je oblikovan konceptualni okvir, ki zajema celotno področje proučevanja disertacije. Izhodišče konceptualnega okvira predstavlja t.i. »na virih temelječa teorija« (ang. resource-based theory - RBT), zlasti zaradi razumevanja vpliva virov organizacije na njeno učinkovitost in uspešnost. Izhajajoč iz te teorije disertacija gradi na dveh glavnih segmentih raziskave: (1) management kakovosti v kontekstu vzdrževanja in (2) gospodarjenje z delovnimi sredstvi.
Disertacija vključuje različne vire podatkov, da bi lahko odgovorili na postavljena raziskovalna vprašanja. Disertacija v ta namen vključuje dve kvantitativne anketne raziskave (raziskava med slovenskimi organizacijami in mednarodna raziskava, ki je bila izvedena v naslednjih državah: slovenija, Švedska, Poljska, Slovaška, Grčija in Turčija). Ravno tako disertacija vključuje dve različni študiji primera.
Rezultati regresijske analize potrjujejo pozitiven in statistično značilen vpliv usmerjenosti v management kakovosti na učinkovitost s področja vzdrževanja. V tem pogledu ugotovitve raziskave kažejo na to, da je močna zavezanost in usmerjenost h kakovosti učinkovit način izboljševanja učinkovitost s področja vzdrževanja ter posledično uspešnosti organizacije. Nadalje, rezultati raziskave potrjujejo tudi pozitiven in statistično značilen vpliv stalnega izboljševanja na učinkovitost s področja vzdrževanja, kot tudi podajajo ugotovitev stalnega izboljševanja kot mediatorja na povezavi med usmerjenost v management kakovosti in učinkovitostjo s področja vzdrževanja.
Pomemben prispevek doktorske disertacije se izkazuje tudi v proučevanju povezav med dejavnostmi gospodarjenja z delovnimi sredstvi in učinkovitostjo s podočja trajnostnega razvoja organizacije in operativno učinkovitostjo. Raziskava temelji na predpostavki, da dejavnosti gospodarjenja z delovnimi sredstvi, ki so opredeljene z dimenzijami kot so obvladovanje tveganj, ocenjevanje učinkovitosti in uspešnosti, obvladovanje življenskega cikla ter politika in strategija, vplivajo na učinkovitost in uspešnost organizacije. Prispevek dejavnosti gospodarjenja z delovnimi sredstvi k učinkovitosti in uspešnosti organizacije dodatno osvetljujejo tudi rezultati multivariatne analize variance (MANOVA). Rezultati kažejo na to, da obstaja statistično značilna razlika med aritmetičnimi sredinami posameznih merskih spremenljivk učinkovitosti in uspešnosti organizacije z ozirom na nizko in visoko stopnjo izvajanja dejavnosti gospodarjenja z delovnimi sredstvi. MANOVA torej potrjuje statistično značilen vpliv neodvisne spremenljivke (dejavnosti gospodarjenja z delovnimi sredstvi) na vse odvisne spremenljivke (merske spremenljivke konstrukta učinkovitosti in uspešnosti organizacije: poslovna uspešnost, okoljska učinkovitost, družbena učinkovitost in operativna učinkovitost). Ugotovitve raziskave torej kažejo, da organizacije z vlaganjem in sistematičnem obvladovanjem gospodarjenja z delovnimi sredstvi lahko vplivajo na dvig poslovnih učinkov. |
Secondary keywords: |
management kakovosti;gospodarjenje z delovnimi sredstvi;vzdrževanje;proizvodnja;učinkovitost in uspešnost;disertacije; |
URN: |
URN:SI:UM: |
Type (COBISS): |
Dissertation |
Thesis comment: |
Univ. v Mariboru, Fak. za organizacijske vede |
Pages: |
231 str. |
ID: |
8832676 |