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Tensions in sustainable warehousing : including the blue-collar perspective on automation and ergonomic workplace design
Gruchmann, Tim; Mies, Annika; Neukirchen, Thomas; Gold, … - In: Journal of business economics : JBE 91 (2021) 2, pp. 151-178
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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century
Feigenbaum, James; Gross, Daniel P. - 2021
were obstacles: the manual switchboard was the fulcrum of a complex system which had developed around it, and automation … automation supported AT&T's continued growth, generating a positive feedback loop between scale and automation that reinforced AT …
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Ergonomics Contributions to Company Strategies
Dul, Jan - 2010
Managers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business … performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of … improving health and safety. In order to strengthen the position of ergonomics and ergonomists in the business and management …
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Trends for the development of anthropocentric production systems in small less industrialised countries: The case of Portugal
Kovács, Ilona; Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
automation. This analysis is based on a sample of industrial firms, built up for qualitative analysis, and on case studies …
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Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess
Künn, Steffen; Seel, Christian; Zegners, Dainis - 2020
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270169
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Mental Health Consequences of Working from Home during the Pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2021
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of workers in the first half of 2020. Furthermore, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649288
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Mental Health Consequences of Working from Home during the Pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2022
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, with particular attention to the role of home environments. Using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795447
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Changing Accounting Systems to Support the Conversion and Management of a Continuous Improvement Business Culture
Mackey, James Thomas - 2005
While the need for, and the value of, Continuous Improvement (CI) Management in practice is well established; their successful implementation has proven problematic. Employee resistance, due to business cultural incompatibility, is considered a major cause. Unfortunately, current budgeting systems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012736204
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Worker Problem-Solving and the Nature of the Firm : New Theory, New Evidence
Dorman, Peter - 2015
This paper proposes a different theory of the firm and demonstrates how it can be employed to yield hypotheses about differences in innovation and human resource strategy according to the shareholder/stakeholder and liberal/coordinated market dichotomies. The theory assumes that feasible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021533
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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2022
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, with particular attention to the role of home environments. Using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796887