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...

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.

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...

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...

How does an oil boom affect the forest cover of tropical oil-exporting countries? What macroeconomic linkages and policies are decisive? A comparison of research findings on long-run land-use changes in eight tropical developing economies reveals that the direct physical impacts of the oil...

In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) in several African countries, a keycomponent of which was to collect data on manufacturing firms. The data sets built by these and subsequent enterprise surveys in Africa generated considerable...

Despite a diminishing role in industrial countries, the manufacturing sector continues to be an engine of economic growth in most developing countries. This article surveys the evidence on the determinants of industry location in developing countries. It also employs micro data for India and...

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...