Future Challenges faced by Managers in Developing Human resources Towards Improving Productivity.

Abstract

As we all know, today, the concept o f productivity had become the major theme in the private sector organizations as well as in the public sector organizations in Sri Lanka. The reason behind o f it was that Sri Lankan Government had announced the period o f 1997-2006 as the productivity decade. Even though this productivity concept is not new, the country like Japan brought new fife to this concept. After the 2nd world war, Japan had taken many steps to rebuild their economy, industries, and living conditions o f their people. In this effort the Japanese specialist understood that, because o f limited reso urces and culture differences they could not develop with the American styles o f management The Japanese specialists tried to find better methods, which were suitable to their country. In this they attempt they gave more emphasis on better utilization o f all resources including the human resources as well. They understood that in improving productivity it, might be used workers hand as well as workers heads other than in America, other wise they could not develop their country. As a result o f these efforts they introduced workers based techniques to improve the productivity such as kaizen, 5s method, work improvement teams etc. In Sri Lankan context even though we have sufficient human resources the problem we face is lack o f enough people with the needed creative and innovative abilities. However, today we can see the Sri Lankan organization had given more emphasis on improving productivity by applying such Japanese techniques. By introducing the concepts like kaizen, 5s method, and work improvement teams in to their organizations, both private sector and public sector and public sector organizations were able to achieve better results. However, the problem faced by the most Sri Lankan organizations is that they had failed keep the betterment continually and improve It further.