and their productivity at the workplace. Design/methodology/approach For the analysis, the authors use firm-level data on … authors regress the apprentices’ productivity on these school competencies and include a number of firm and apprentice … productivity. Problem-solving competencies followed by oral and writing competencies show the strongest relation to the productive …

. Performance is measured in terms of profit margins and labour and total factor productivity.  …

reality of university life and its pressures, and submits that the drive for productivity and efficiency is just the same …

Emphasizes the productivity and quality connection in relation to competitive advantage in operations management and … strategy. Discusses the issue of ethics and its interface with productivity and quality. Highlights the underlying relationship … services, in three European countries, the UK, France and Germany. It is the combination of productivity, quality and ethics …

complex problems and increasing staff productivity. Design/methodology/approach – This is a viewpoint column. Findings – Many …

quality award‐based instrument. This paper assesses the TQM implementation level of Singapore’s productivity leaders, which …

' productivity and tolerance of ambiguity. Design/methodology/approach – The research was conducted before and after the … data were collected from 352 workers. In the first phase (2004), workers' productivity, ambiguity tolerance and … (enter and stepwise) were used to explore the research hypotheses. Findings – The paper finds that workers' productivity and …

Productivity gainsharing plans may well experience a resurgence as firms attempt to meet the competitive challenges … experienced when it implemented a Scanlon productivity gainsharing plan. It is argued that such plans should not be treated as …