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Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung war es, eine systematische Bestandsaufnahme zum Status quo der Personalforschung im Kulturbereich vorzunehmen. In die Untersuchung einbezogen wurden Studien, die sich empirisch mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen und im deutsch- und englischsprachigen Raum in...
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We discuss a model for analyzing and measuring workers' health and psychosocial work-environment on firm productivity …. Productivity is measured through the Malmquist productivity index approach using Data Envelopment Analysis. A novel component of … two variables are modeled as latent or unobserved variables using Item Response Theory. Changes over time in productivity …
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The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...
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variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and … employment to cyclical output growth across a panel of countries. Measured productivity contributes more to the cycle in Europe …
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We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …
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technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining macroeconomic labour-productivity developments. We …
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resource management. Importantly, we consider a wider notion of 'productivity' that encompasses not only economic aspects but …
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What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...
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Traditionally allocation of personnel for projects has been seen as a manage-ment task. Recently, however, more and more organisations are treading new paths when staffing projects. In this article we examine a new staffing proce-dure, in which enrolment is dependent on employees voluntarily...
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