productivity, efficiency and profit. An empirical study of one of the UK’s four large supermarket chains reveals an inverse … correlation between employee satisfaction and the measures of productivity, efficiency and profitability, the most profitable … efficiency may be leading to dysfunctional managerial behaviour at store level. These preliminary findings suggest two …

In a recent paper on measuring efficiency of hospitals by Al‐Shammari a set of 15 hospitals were compared across three … the proposed methodology in deriving additional findings and conclusions for efficiency measurement of hospitals. These …

, related to knowledge‐based activities in design, which describes performance in terms of its key elements, efficiency and … efficiency of the design activity from that of design management, and that, in addition, efficiency appears to be inherent to an …

This paper seeks to measure and evaluate the productive efficiency of health‐care organizations (hospitals) using a … efficiency of multiple‐input multiple‐output Decision‐Making Units (DMUs). DEA provides management with information regarding the …

transformation from a private into a public firm. We observed a growing efficiency climate and accountability drives, as well as a …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of workforce diversity and efficiency. It departs from … result is that of an absence of strong evidence that age, gender or educational diversity is good or bad for efficiency …-level technology and the desirability/efficiency of workforce diversity are intrinsically connected. It is also that a non …

incentive schemes that substantially lead to efficiency enhancements and wage gains. These findings are confirmed for firms … economy, the role of PRP on both productivity and wages, in order to shed light on the efficiency and distributive …