Barriers of Productivity in Public Sector Automotive Manufacturing Industry of Pakistan
The public sector losses are the major cause of stagnant growth of Pakistan. Public sector automotive manufacturing industry is one of the major contributors of these losses. This research has been carried out in order to identify the major barriers of productivity of this industry and suggest measures for improvement. This qualitative and quantitative research consisted of informal interviews, discussions augmented by closed ended questionnaire. Three major manufacturing units were chosen for this research and responses from 103 employees were collected. It was found out in this research that numerous productivity flaws exist in the system which requires immediate attention. Besides highlighting flaws this research also suggests corrective actions and areas for future research to overcome these problems.
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Pakistan", December 2008.
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of Selected Manufacturing Industries in India". Paper presented at the
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Research on Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP), Nottingham,
2006.
Available: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/leverhulme/
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Available: http://www.crfonline.org/surveys/prodsurvey/
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vol. 17, pp. 79-112, 2003.
[8] Laymaz, Erol and G. Saatci, "Technical Change and Efficiency in
Turkish Manufacturing Industries". Journal of Productivity Analysis
vol. 8, pp. 461- 475, 1997.
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Korean manufacturing industries". Contemporary Economics Policy,
vol. 211, pp.132-144, 2003.
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[11] Available : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Automotive _ industry
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industry- presentation-060109.
[13] Available : http://www.apo-tokyo.org/alumni/
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8th ed., Ohio: USA, 1999, pp 593-594.
[1] Asian Development Bank Report, "Private Sector Assessment,
Pakistan", December 2008.
[2] Pakistan Economic Survey 2006-07,Ministry of Finance.
[3] Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS), Government of Pakistan, "Pakistan,
July 2005 to June 2006" (2006).
Available: http://www.statpak.gov.pk/depts/fbs/statistics/cmi2005-
06/cmi_2005_06.html.
[4] Tripathy, Sabita , "Are Foreign Firms Allocatively Inefficient?: A Study
of Selected Manufacturing Industries in India". Paper presented at the
Fifth Annual GEP Postgraduate Conference (Leverhulme Centre for
Research on Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP), Nottingham,
2006.
Available: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/leverhulme/
conferences/postgrad_conf_2006/Tipathy1.pdf.
[5] J. Hössler, O. Kath and M.Soden "Significant Productivity Enhancement
through Model Driven Techniques: A Success Story", Proceedings of
the 10th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
Conference (EDOC'06) 0-7695-2558-X/06 2006.
[6] Credit Research Foundation-s 2007, "Collection Productivity Analysis
2008" Printed in the United States of America.
Available: http://www.crfonline.org/surveys/prodsurvey/
collectionproductivityresults.pdf
[7] A.. Heshmati, "Productivity Growth, Efficiency and Outsourcing in
Manufacturing and Service Industries". Journal of Economic Surveys,
vol. 17, pp. 79-112, 2003.
[8] Laymaz, Erol and G. Saatci, "Technical Change and Efficiency in
Turkish Manufacturing Industries". Journal of Productivity Analysis
vol. 8, pp. 461- 475, 1997.
[9] S. Kims, "Identifying and estimating sources of technical inefficiency in
Korean manufacturing industries". Contemporary Economics Policy,
vol. 211, pp.132-144, 2003.
[10] L. Wang and A. Szirmai, "Productivity growth and structural change in
Chinese manufacturing, 1980-2002". Ind Corp Change, pp. dtn020+,
July 2008. (online) Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtn020.
[11] Available : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Automotive _ industry
[12] Available : http://www.slideshare.net/workosaur/indian-autocomponents-
industry- presentation-060109.
[13] Available : http://www.apo-tokyo.org/alumni/
alumni_pakistan_news01.htm#header.
[14] J. Samanth, " Total Productivity Management", McGraw Hill, USA,
1994, pp 340-394.
[15] N. Gaither and G. Frazier, "Production and Operations Management",
8th ed., Ohio: USA, 1999, pp 593-594.
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