changes. New working practices and work environments present the potential to improve both the productivity and the wellbeing … productivity potential and measuring the impacts of work environment changes. The paper introduces the empirical examples of three …

‐country productivity. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set for 15 Taiwanese manufacturing industries over the period between 1991 … and 2007 is employed for a model in which productivity is regressed on a measure of O‐FDI. Findings – The study finds no … significant positive or negative effect of O‐FDI on productivity. Breaking down the data by location of the investment, however …

Efficient techniques of information collection and analysis are essential to all quality and productivity improvement … higher productivity, as it enables the investigator to identify and evaluate important variables quickly, replacing the …

and manufacturing. Across these applications highly different productivity‐related challenges, productivity strategies …Purpose – The paper aims to present an approach to improve the organisation's productivity which is applicable in every … industrial sector. The nucleus of the approach is to develop an optimal productivity strategy in an organization by the …

-based brassware manufacturing units. Research limitations/implications – The meaning and interpretations of quality, productivity and … manufacturing units. The systems approach has been applied to understand productivity. Originality/value – This paper creates …Purpose – This paper examines the ways in which the concepts of “quality”, “productivity” and “business performance …

The 1980s have seen the emergence of a new perception of productivity and its relationship to quality, cost and … quality and high productivity and profitability are mutually exclusive has been seriously challenged by academics and managers … alike. While most company studies point to a positive relationship between quality and productivity, the results of the …

The key to increasing productivity in the manufacturing sector does not lie solely in high technology, but also in an …, prediction and control are indispensable; thus statistical tools have become a prerequisite to any productivity drive, those of …

describes the construction of a model of process quality and its correlates in manufacturing. Using empirical data, the study … are also considered. Since the research domain of the study is manufacturing industry, the conformance dimension of … a favourable impact of enhanced quality in the form of improvements in productivity, inprocess inventory, on …

design of productivity measurement systems. The responses of 114 chief executives, drawn from a wide range of New Zealand …‐based manufacturing companies, to a mailed survey have been analysed using Friedman two‐way ANOVA tests. The results suggest significant … associated with management’s preference for the type of productivity measurement systems.  …

Separating functional areas, especially in the product design and manufacturing process, is a historical problem in … least maximum two‐way communication between each pair of functional areas, is necessary for product‐manufacturing firms to …