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 …

A key to raising productivity may be to stimulate product market competition, and this will need a complementary policy … “inertia” preventing productivity being raised must be identified and defeated. Initial responsibility lies with management … productivity nation.  …

Purpose – The purpose of this empirical paper is to investigate the employers’ perception of productivity of older … method was used for assessment of workers skills and productivity. Primary analysis are linear regression models with … employer's assessment of productivity of older and younger workers as dependent variables. Findings – In case of older workers …