اسم المؤلف:
عبد الله جميل النصيرات
المستخلص:
The current international system has faced and from the beginning of the nineties decade of the last century, a wide range of structural changes. Which have enlarged in speed and generalization, which have caused radical changes over most of the economical variables which have affected the economical and social situations for all the countries, of the most prominent events in the world from economical developments and which have evolved from different economical and political events arising from its period or getting its roots from the past, are the fall of the previous Soviet union, followed by the changes in eastern Europe, and the scientific different types of living ways ,and the increased role of global economic establishments in controlling the new economical system ,and the emergency of economical collections and regional intents between the different countries .These enormous developments have created a new environment for the economic international relationships, so the developed and developing world have become in the face of an economical theory of (almost unified economical policies with a difference in details, and it is the western economical theory which depends upon the economy and competence market. and increment of the private sector role, and diminishing the role of government, and the developing countries have raced to hold and implement those economical ideas and which are represented by the international and economical opening and limitation of commerce ,and increment of the foreign utilization role, and privatization of the general sector And because the developing countries are facing so many of economical problems, which is represented by the foreign debt and their bearings, and the failure of general offset ,and the failure in payment's offsets ,and the import in flation, and the dominance of foreign investments over most of economies of these states, so the idea of following the economical opening policy have occupied a big concern in developing states in the mean time .so many believe in this policy the curing medicine as the only solution to achieve economical and social development and after the failure of many development strategies .What is applicable to developing countries is so upon Jordan, so Jordan have found that the general interest necessitates going along with the changes and coping with the attitude towards opening and globalization rather than isolation, as being universal global attitudes, so it chose the policy" of universal economical policy as the only solution to achieve the economical and social development.It is important to mention that Jordan has faced in 1988 a shocking economical crises which made him unable to continue its developmental path, and,, paying its foreign debts or serving its bearings ,which have created too many difficulties ,the first of which is getting help from the international monetary fund to reschedule its debts and getting more of it ,and the second to lower the Jordanian Dinner value and the cash instability and the third is to adhere to the prescription of international monetary fund to rebuild the economy ,from here, so a lot of the procedures and legislation’s which are approved by Jordan within the structural adjustment programs, which were done with a previous preparation with the international institutes which were seeing that implementing these policies and procedures is necessary to have a maintained economical development, in addition to its interest in merging Jordan into the international economy through encouraging the policy of universal economic openness. The main objective of the study is to show the extent of economic openness in Jordan to specify the effects of this openness on Jordanian development.Result for studied years (1980 - 2000) showed Jordanian economy is open widely abroad, the rate of its economic openness is (72.5%), and the rate of imports to the gross national product (56.1%). Financial indicators showed that Jordan depends exclusively on abroad in financing the deficit in public budget and balance of payment. Rate of abroad general credit to gross national product (129.2%), and rate of remittance without charge (26.5%).This policy had bad effects on Jordanian Economy materialized in decreasing of national income and the individual's share it and aggravation of unemployment and poverty, The present work showed that population rate under extreme poverty line is (26%) during 1998, and (4.5%) of population is under thorough poverty. Unemployment compromised (27.5%) of the total labor according to non¬ - governmental data.If the policy behind the economic openness is to attract foreign investment, these investments constituted only low rate of (40.4%) out of total investments. The major part of this investments are Arabic investments which were focused on service sector to gain fast revenues with low risks that led to the expansion of this sector at the expense of other economic sectors.The study ends up with recommendations including dependence on the self, the optimum use of national resources, decreasing the dependence on capitalists and thorough economic openness orientation to Arabic nations
اسم المؤلف:
سوزان صباح عبد الامير الجعفر
اسم المشرف:
راضي عبد الله علي
المستخلص:
Purpose : To detection the relationship between lean maintenance methodologies, and reduce waste in maintenance and production processes as a mediator variable, and improve operational performance.Design / Methodology / Approach : Questionnaire was developed to ensure existence of the relationship between the variables of the study, and depending on the random sample, were distributed to 73 questionnaire on administrators and Technicians in Alfayhaa company of ready construction, and analyzed by a program (AMOS v.21 and SPSS v.21 ), In addition to the use of a set of quantitative measures as (The Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Waste Ratios, Cost, Quality, and Productivity), for data processing quantified by employing them in a computer program designed based on Microsoft Excel. 2010, and analysis of results.Findings : Showed a knowledge gap is concerned with determining the nature of the relationship between the lean maintenance methodologies, and reduce waste in maintenance and production processes, and improve operational performance, results showed that the company in the year (2012) had a maintenance system is not at the required level, compared with the year (2013), which introduced some improvements to the maintenance system, thus reducing waste in maintenance and production processes by certain percentages, and reflections on improving operational performance, as well as been confirmed the existence of a statistical relationship between the three variables, so the company needs to develop maintenance activities and the implementation of the three methodologies, to achieve the maximum benefit maintenance of resources, and the continued improvement of the level of operational performance. Limitations of Study : The difficulty of identifying the company field of study, there were some complications in providing quantitative data from the reality of Records as the company considers this data can affect its competitive position in the market.Practical Implications : You can benefit from the findings of the study, that the interest in improving maintenance practices at the company has reduced waste ratios, which is reflected in improved operational performance of the company, so the increased interest in this area will increase the company's chances of achieving its goals and objectives.Originality / Value : The study was to bridge the gap in the lack of an Arab or foreign study looked at the relationship between the variables of the study in one hypothetical model, and how important this relationship is to improve the operational performance of the company.Key Words : Lean Manufacturing, Lean Maintenance, Autonomous Maintenance, and Basic Maintenance Procedures 5S, The Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Waste, Operational Performance, Cost, Quality, and Productivity.
