Responsibilities and Activities in Indian Production Management

Abstract

An in‐depth survey of production management in India: production, as pivotal function in any industrial organisation, seeks to achieve productivity and profitability and holds the key to survival in the present competitive world of business. To meet the goals of a nation, production managers are expected to understand and to perceive their roles and responsibilities very clearly in concrete and precise terms. India, being a very large country and having a very diversified set of industrial organisations, employs a substantial number of technically qualified managers in the production functions. These people sometimes lack coherent thinking and there is a measure of responsibility/activity incompatibility. This paper aims to clarify role perceptions in respect of those tasks for which production managers are responsible.

Citation

Mohanty, R.P. and Nair, J. (1987), "Responsibilities and Activities in Indian Production Management", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054789