Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of leadership in business growth and productivity. Design …/methodology/approach – It does this through reference to coaching activity, drawing on practical, real life experience. The productivity source … productivity is more of a contributory factor to the recession than previously thought. Findings/research – Productivity in British …

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 …