Production Flexibility and its role in achieving the clean production philosophy according to the approach of corporates social responsibility

Applied study To Sample views Of workers of Iraqi Cement State Company

A thesis Submitted

To The Council of the College of Administration and Economics, University of Karbala, As a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for PH.D. Degree in Business Administration Sciences.

Submitted By

Ameer Ghanim Wadi Al-awadi

Supervised By

Prof.Dr Alaa Farhan Talib

Abstract

Production Flexibility and its role in achieving the clean production philosophy according to the approach of corporates social responsibility

Applied study To Sample views Of workers of Iraqi Cement State Company

The clean production processes are a contemporary methods adopted by the organizations aim to improve the reality of production and environmental sustainability through the approach of social responsibility and employment dimensions to achieve clean production philosophy as well as meeting environmental change through the adoption of flexible production capacity to meet the environmental conditions and achieve a competitive advantage unique to all competitors.

The study dealt with some intellectual and field problems and the goal of answering them to clarify theoretical philosophy and intellectual connotations and applied fields of variables (flexibility productivity, social responsibility, clean production) covered by the study. The importance of the study providing processors and proposals for the management of the surveyed Organization and put them into practice and to utilize them in order to raise the profile of their performance. the study aims the impact of each of the flexible productivity statement dimensions through approach the social responsibility of organizations dimensions to adopt the surveyed Organization clean Production philosophy. In addition to the statement of the importance of these variables and the possibility of their application in the Iraqi environment, specifically in the cement industry and in particular in the company researched ” Iraqi Cement State Company” The study sample included a group of technicians and managers of departments where Their number reached 132 persons It was distributed Questionnaire on them.

The study relied on two approaches, deductive as input variables of the study to test and try to apply them to the respondent to gain access to the data and then the results of society. The analytical test to measure the variables of the study through an examination and analysis of the results and then test the variables of the study.

The study found there is a significance positive correlation with between the three variables of the study with a significant positive correlation differences between the dimensions of the study variables (the dimensions of flexibility production , the dimensions of social responsibility, clean production processes) also found the presence of clear impact flexible production dimensions to clean production directly and indirect impact through social responsibility .And the study it urged the company researched to give clean production philosophy greater importance than ever before .Because it the key to current and future competitive advantage because of the increased pressure for the sustainability of the environment and consumer protection.