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 …

The authors' purpose in this paper is to develop productivity-based sequential budgeting procedures designed to … comprehensive zero-base analyses. The concept of total factor productivity is reviewed and its relations to ordinary and zero … (a) implicitly budgeted total factor productivity; (b) revenue growth; and (c) profitability; is suggested. It is argued …

Specialization at work has been recognized as a key driver of learning and productivity since the days of Adam Smith … specialization and variety jointly drive employee productivity in a real-life setting. We analyze a data set covering 88 individuals …, specialization enhances productivity. However, exposure to variety has a nonlinear influence on productivity; i.e., "too much variety …