The role of Green manufacturing in enhancing operations performance

Thesis submitted to Council of the College of Administration and Economics / University of Karbala

It is part of the requirements for obtaining a master’s degree in business administration that the student has submitted 

By

Saja Nadhum Jawad

Supervised by

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Fahd

This study aims to demonstrate the role of green manufacturing in enhancing the performance of operations at the level of the study sample company, nd in order to achieve this, green manufacturing was measured in four sub-dimensions represented by (green tools and technologies, energy-saving technologies, reconfigurable manufacturing systems, and life cycle management). The performance of operations was measured in five sub-dimensions (process cost, process quality, process flexibility, delivery, and process innovation). What is the level of operations performance in the study sample company? The study population was workers in the production department of the General Company for Rubber Industries in the province of Najaf, and the study sample amounted to 198 workers in the researched company, and the questionnaire was used as a main tool for collecting data and information necessary for the study. It was relied on a set of ready-made programs for statistical analysis, including (SPSS V. 23) and (Amos V. 23). The study reached a set of results, the most important of which is the existence of a correlation and impact of positive statistical significance between green manufacturing and the performance of operations. The company’s senior study sample in order to obtain the best results.

Keywords: green manufacturing, operations performance