Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency and productivity growth of the Iranian banking … new decomposition of the Hicks‐Moorsteen total factor productivity index developed by O'Donnell to analyse efficiency and … productivity changes in a banking context. The advantage of this approach over the popular constant‐returns‐to‐scale Malmquist …

Gives an overview of the Australian banking industry, reviews relevant research and analyses productivity changes 1995 … decline of 3.1 per cent in technical efficiency over the period and of 3.5 per cent in the total factor productivity index …, although there was an annual productivity growth rate of 1.3 per cent. Discusses the underlying reasons for this, compares …

higher education system. The purpose of this paper is to document reduced research productivity at a university that uses … rolling contracts in comparison to research productivity at another university in the same state university system in the USA … productivity. Findings The findings suggest that non-tenure track employment contracting may have other long-term implications for …

” employees and line managers to square the circle of increased competition, improved efficiency/productivity and financial …

. Focuses on exploring beyond the impact of compensation on productivity and profitability, which are essential considerations …

institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or offering dependent college tuition waiver may … be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase retention and productivity. In addition, the amount of the tuition waiver …, number of dependents and annual salary are statistically significant predictors of intended increased productivity and intent …

productivity “dividends” or efficiencies? Design/methodology/approach Using archival data for 37 Australian universities from 2007 … to 2013, this paper examines changes in productivity of university groups and individual institutions using the data … envelopment analysis technique. Findings Results show a statistically significant system-wide (or technological) productivity …

) based on BS5750 on construction productivity of UK building contractors specializing in the housing sector. The main … variables of the study (quality and productivity) have been operationalized as follows: quality, the companies were classified … as having a formal quality system if they were registered to BS5750; productivity of a construction project was defined …