’ international competitiveness in terms of productivity, innovativeness and skill composition for a panel of Italian manufacturing … the skill ratio of workers but does not show a significant association with productivity growth. The estimates are robust …

contribution to increased productivity in health services. The purpose of this paper is to review critically the recent and current … labour approaches to improve nursing productivity in New Zealand, in a context of international research and experience …. Design/methodology/approach – An examination of government documents regarding productivity, and a review of New Zealand and …

number of firms and productivity. Design/methodology/approach – Following Melitz (2003) and Balistreri et al. (2011), the … join the TPP regardless the size of the TPP through productivity improvement of participating firms and increases in the …

productivity and welfare. Design/methodology/approach This paper develops a North-South general equilibrium model in which firms …-induced technology-upgrading mechanisms of firms and workers increase aggregate productivity and welfare, though at the cost of increased … proceeds, leading to higher aggregate productivity and welfare gains.  …

(productivity, flexibility and innovation) and strategy process (execution and culture) has been validated, and the empirical …

influence on productivity. Examination of the data indicates that there is no relationship between downsizing and productivity.  …

that meetings are important to any organisation; managed effectively, they increase productivity and, managed poorly, they …

Concerns an Australian working person’s view of the ability of the workforce to improve its productivity. Just under … three‐quarters of the respondents believed they could improve their individual productivity but that an even greater … percentage of the workforce could improve its productivity. Any increase in productivity will have to be divided between three …

Describes the difference in attitudes between managers and shopfloor workers concerning the influences of productivity … productivity increases on outcomes for shopfloor workers than do the shopfloor workers themselves. It seems that workers feel that … they will bear more of the costs of any program which aims to improve productivity. Management must be aware of the …