evidence to support the notion that profit sharing significantly improves either employment, profitability, productivity …

Presents a longitudinal field study which compares changes in perceptions of productivity and attendance behaviours for … participants in a drug‐testing programme in a manufacturing firm in the mid‐western USA. Employee efficiency, productivity and … productivity. The performance results, however, document a positive and substantial impact of drug testing initiative on employee …

productivity levels in British industry are 25‐30 per cent lower than in The Netherlands. This is seen to reflect slower investment …

Uses a model of technical change embodied in capital equipment to analyse average labour productivity growth …. Determinants of productivity growth identified in this analysis are: (1) the rate of labour‐saving technical change; (2) the … average labour productivity growth in a cross‐section of Australian manufacturing industries.  …

Extends the approach of an earlier article which studies the underlying trend rate of growth of labour productivity in … the post‐war UK economy. Analyses productivity growth trends in the member countries of the OECD. Also explores some … implications for the productivity slow‐down debate. Begins by providing a brief summary of the estimation method used, then reports …

Compares the productivity record of 30 manufacturing industries in UK and Germany in 1979 and 1989. Discusses the … framework is used to estimate relative multi‐factor productivity levels. Concludes that, although Germany had a strong labour … productivity advantage in 1989, Britain′s relative position had improved considerably since 1979. By 1989 German superiority could …

’ productivity, quality, satisfaction, performance, and appears to be effective. However, less than half of the surveyed respondents …

Wages in Eastern Germany have risen in excess of productivity growth. The usual argument is that this has been one of …