their future rank expectations. Feedback helps create a ratcheting effect in productivity, mainly because of the fight for … dominance at the top of the rank hierarchy. Our findings suggest that organizations can improve employee productivity by …

Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success … them opportunities to learn. In this paper, we investigate how these two strategies may bring different productivity … related to improved worker productivity. However, when we examine workers' experience across a number of days, we find that …

deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which scientists influence the productivity of others, I expand the traditional … taxonomy of scientists that focuses solely on productivity and add a second, social dimension: helpfulness to others. Using a … combination of academic paper publications and citations to capture scientist productivity and the receipt of academic paper …

external focus, decentralization, and IT is associated with significantly higher productivity in our sample. We also introduce …

produces a larger productivity premium when the practices are implemented in concert rather than separately. We assess our … a large productivity premium when it is implemented as a system of organizational incentives, but has less benefit when … interactions, highlighting the importance of including all three complements. Productivity increases significantly when the HCM …

This study compares the productivity of six major US and Japanese motor vehicle manufacturers---General Motors, Ford …, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda---from the early 1950's through 1987. Techniques of productivity measurement, conventionally … determinants of growth in productivity are evaluated, including economies of scale, adoption of "just-in-time" manufacturing, and …

The "productivity paradox" of information systems (IS) is that, despite enormous improvements in the underlying …. As a result, we could assess several econometric models of the contribution of IS to firm-level productivity. Our results … the productivity paradox disappeared by 1991, at least in our sample of firms. …

.S. human resource management (HRM) practices on worker productivity. The Japanese production lines employ a common system of … practices patterned after the Japanese system achieve levels of productivity and quality equal to the performance of the … participation that extends only to problem-solving teams or information sharing do not see large improvements in productivity …