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Abstract:
Chinese manufacturing industry?s ability to be both effective (creating value products) and efficient (producing at the lowest cost) depends not only on the management of input factors but also enhancement of processing systems to maximize output. China?s labor mismatch and its implication on manufacturing Total Factor Productivity are examined as a means to merit the need for systematic change within manufacturing firms. Systematic change will affect the entire industry performance, particularly vulnerable areas. The significance of understanding that mismatches can be created from not only the employee but employer signals a need for new manufacturing management approaches tailored to post China?s Big Industrial Push era. Given the rate of technological advancement of parts of the Chinese manufacturing industry while other segments remain labor intensive producing low value; the contribution of this research identifies a productive gap of underutilize resources necessary to take China into a new competitive stage of development. If left unabated the polarization of the industry will result in suboptimal outcomes on labor, innovation and competition.

Keywords: labor mismatch, transformation, competition, productivity, industrial robots

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