Companies are under constant pressure to improve performance.
Since implementing a HPWS is often touted as an improvement strategy, MMTC researchers decided to examine elements that make up a HPWS more closely. The MMTC team was assisted by the Work and Technology Institute and by a distinguished advisory board of academics, trade unionists, and HR consultants. Current PB questionnaires include only a handful of questions on productivity and work organization. While the data collected in the pilot study is clean, current, and richly detailed, it is not strictly representative of manufacturing plants in general. Although the respondents are not representative of all U.S. manufacturing plants, their data do provide a window into HR practices and HPWS implementation in SMEs that is not available in other, more representative, manufacturing surveys.