Mohammed Othman

An-Najah National University · Department of Industrial Engineering

The global electric vehicle (EV) market overgrew in the previous decade. This paper investigates the factors affecting EV purchase intention in the West Bank, Palestine. This study adopts the exploratory sequential mixed methods approach by conducting unstructured interviews and questionnaires in a developing country context. We obtained 384 survey...

This research aims to review several works of literature on the relationship between green human resources management (GHRM), corporate social responsibilities (CSR), organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment (OCBE) and organisational sustainability (OS). Furthermore, this study aims to propose a reasonable conceptual model to clarif...

: In this paper, we explore the factors influencing the adoption of Human Resources (HR) Analytics by HR professionals in large Palestinian enterprises. A convenience sample of 151 HR professionals from the service and manufacturing sectors participated in a questionnaire-based survey. The study identified self-efficacy, performance expectancy, eff...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the direct relationship between green human resource management (GHRM) practices and environmental performance (EP) in Palestinian universities, as well as the mediating role of management support (MS) and green organisational culture (GOC) in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative appr...

Purpose The paper aims to examine the association of green human resource management (GHRM) with organisational sustainability (OS) through the mediating function of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment (OCBE) in Palestinian health-care organisations. Design/methodology/approach The pap...

Abstract: This paper addresses the sustainable closed-loop supply chain (SCLSC) design problem regarding selecting a supplier under total quantity discount with demand uncertainty and logistic flow uncertainty. The proposed model considers the three pillars of sustainability: the economic, environmental, and social realms. The model deals with the...

Researchers have paid close attention to hospital resource planning in recent decades, but the impact of human factors, such as human immunity, on healthcare management has been neglected. This paper integrates physicians’ differences to examine their effect on patient waiting time and patient satisfaction. A mixed-integer programming model is prop...

Purpose This study aims at investigating the impact of total quality management (TQM) on corporate sustainability (CS) by mediating the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach A mixed research approach was adopted by conducting interviews and a survey. A survey was used as a quantitative t...

Purpose The paper aims to investigate the relationship between supply chain quality management (SCQM) practices and organisational performance as well as the role of knowledge transfer (KT) and SCQM capabilities in mediating the SCQM practices–organisational performance relationship. Precisely, this study tried to examine how effective are SCQM pra...

Over the past few years, organizations have faced pressure from stakeholders to implement lean principles in their product development processes. However, the existing methods are not capable of measuring the benefits of adopting lean initiatives in the product development process. This research aims to develop a performance measurement model that...

Lean manufacturing is one of the most popular improvement agents in the pursuit of perfection. However, in today’s complex and dynamic manufacturing environments, lean tools are facing an inevitable death. Industry 4.0 can be integrated with lean tools to avoid their end. Therefore, the primary purpose of this paper is to introduce an Industry 4.0-...

Over the past few years, organisations have faced pressure from stakeholders to adopt environmentally friendly business practices, where it is becoming critical to identify green practices that boost sustainability. Despite green human resource management receiving significant interest from scholars, studies related to green practices remain limite...

Vehicle routing problem (VRP) research has recently improved dramatically to simulate more real-life circumstances. Nevertheless, the typical VRP models proposed have been isolated from the most important factor determining the success of the VRP plan on the ground, i.e. the human factor (driver). Thus, this research investigates the effect of driv...

An estimated 16% of the world’s population do not have access to electricity, and most of them live in rural areas. A reliable energy access for rural communities will help them break out of the cycle of poverty and will empower significant socio-economic benefits. Specifically, the energy sector situation in Palestine suffers from scarcity of trad...

Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has attained a huge attention by researchers in the last few decades. However, the effect of human aspects (e.g. drivers’ differences) in designing and managing green supply chains (GSCs) has been ignored despite the fact of their crucial importance in adopting and achieving optimal green strategies. In this pap...

Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has attained a huge attention by researchers in the last few decades. However, the effect of human aspects (e.g. drivers’ differences) in designing and managing green supply chains (GSCs) has been ignored despite the fact of their crucial importance in adopting and achieving optimal green strategies. In this pap...

Firms world-wide are actively engaged to achieve internationally accepted quality levels to ensure their position in the emerging international market especially those from developing economies. Unfortunately the Construction industry, generally, has lagged behind other industries in implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) which provide excelle...

Firms world-wide are actively engaged to achieve internationally accepted quality levels to ensure their position in the emerging international market especially those from developing economies. Unfortunately the construction industry, generally, has lagged behind other industries in implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) which provides excell...

Due to growing awareness of environmental protection in the world, a green trend to conserve the Earth’s resources and protect the environment exerted pressure on companies to change their management ways. As a result, the issues of environmental pollution must be addressed with logistics system, and it has become an approach to enhance environment...

In today’s competitive market, manufacturers need to work hard towards improving their production system performance in order to satisfy customer demands. In such a situation, most companies develop production systems that can help in quality improvement, cost reduction and throughput time reduction. In this research, we consider a workforce planni...

Purpose: The majority of a company’s improvement comes when the right workers with the right skills, behaviors and capacities are deployed appropriately throughout a company. This paper considers a workforce scheduling model including human aspects such as skills, training, workers’ personalities, workers’ breaks and workers’ fatigue and recover...

In today's competitive market, most companies develop manufacturing systems that can help in cost reduction and maximum quality. Human issues are an important part of manufacturing systems, yet most companies ignore their effects on production performance. This paper aims to developing an integrated workforce planning system that incorporates the h...

Involuntary extensor thrusts, experienced by wheelchair users with cerebral palsy, can cause injuries due to unexpected impacts with the wheelchair. Consequently, these unexpected motions can hurt the human body, damage the wheelchair, and change the correct position of the user’s pelvis. Many of the existing wheelchairs do not address all the need...

In today’s global and competitive market, manufacturing companies are working hard towards improving their production system performance. Most companies develop production systems that can help in cost reduction. Manufacturing systems consist of different elements including production methods, machines, processes, control and information syste...

Wheelchair users with brain-related problems experience involuntary extensor thrusts, which may cause injuries due to unexpected impacts with the wheelchair. An improved wheelchair design would be very beneficial to such users. This paper uses the Design Structure Matrix (DSM), which is an information exchange model that helps find the relationship...