The aim of this article is to find the relationship between job characteristics and performance. From a total of 200 employees of a company, 100 were selected as sample of this study. Bivariate correlation and linear regression was used to test the hypotheses. It was found that all the variables...

Purpose – GEOAmey was founded in early 2011 as a result of a joint venture between GEO Group and Amey plc, with the sole purpose of bidding for the Ministry of Justice's prisoner escorting contracts (PECs), which were up for renewal. GEOAmey was awarded three of four available contracts, which...

The annual pay review can be a time‐consuming process. For BT, the process became so time‐consuming and inefficient that, in 2004, it switched to a web‐based application that automated data generation and made the process transparent for the first time.

When some Hughes Supply employees failed to receive their paychecks, the organization took the opportunity to develop a range of payment choices to suit the needs of its diverse workforce. Here, the Hughes Supply HR team explain how ePayroll was successfully introduced.

Zusammenfassung Auf der Basis eines zusammengefügten Datensatzes aus dem IAB-Betriebspanel und der Historikdatei der Beschäftigtenstatistik wurde für 1995 für das westdeutsche Produzierende Gewerbe ein Translog-Kostensystem für sechs Qualifikationsgruppen (Arbeiter und Angestellte jeweils...

Summary Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper demonstrates that the impact of works council presence on labor productivity varies between manufacturing and services, between plants that are or are not covered by...

Purpose – This study is concerned with the separate output effects of female and male education, as well as output effects of the educational gender gap. Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on output level using the much...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how the unfolding diet transformation in East and Southern Africa is likely to influence the evolution of employment within its agrifood system (AFS) and between that system and the rest of the economy. To briefly consider implications for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how effectively the cost appraisal system proposed measures the cost of poor quality (COPQ) in a construction project. The paper first formulates how COPQ can be measured and later clarifies the relationship between COPQ, labor productivity,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between quality management practice and labor productivity in labor-intensive manufacturing companies in a developing nation and benchmark with the world average. Design/methodology/approach – Primary and secondary data...