The Role of Lean Production Technology and Human Resource Flexibility in Reduce Costs: Applied Research in Petronas Oil Industries Company

The research aims to study the impact of human resource flexibility and lean production and their foundations and ways to activate and follow up those tools and work to develop a vision for the economic unit in question In reducing costs as well as defining its importance in contemporary systems and identifying skills and behaviors that affect performance and productivity and ways to develop them and find a structure to enhance competition through coordination of the tools of the two variables together to achieve new methods in the concept of reducing costs and achieving impressive results, which included the pillars of lean production on, total quality management, automation, comprehensive productivity maintenance and continuous improvement, The problem of the research was the lack of skilled workers in the economic unit in question and the extent of its application to the tools of lean production and the mechanism of eliminating waste in its operations. Through it to a set of conclusions, that there is an acceptance of these techniques and their methods by the workers in the economic unit in question for application because of their results that are reflected on them, on the activity in general, the existence of a correlation relationship between the independent variables, lean production and the flexibility of human resources and the effective role of them in reducing costs.