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During the past several decades, the rapid expansion of service industry and the automation of manufacturing operations have gradually changed the ratio between direct and indirect labour in favour of the latter and created the need for indirect work measurement and standards. Though a few...
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‐capital productivity and productivity of both direct and clerical labour. Success in JIT adoption seem not to be related to certain …
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Both the improvement of productivity and the effectiveness of performance measures have been topics of extreme interest … productivity measure, output/input, as a measure of performance at the firm, work‐unit, individual, product, or product‐line level …. Considers the ability of productivity measures to adjust for price changes and to detect factor substitutions. The distortion of …
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productivity measures of these firms for resource utilization and product competence are determined. Two groups of patterns with …
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Purpose – Maintaining and improving productivity of product design and engineering processes has been a paramount … the productivity of limitedly available engineering resources (a challenge companies and nations face currently). The … approaches complementary and overlapping methods for improving the productivity of product design and engineering processes could …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a fresh insight into the examination of the comparison between multinationality and firm performance, measured through technical efficiency levels by overcoming methodological constraints and misunderstandings presented in earlier research....
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This paper provides statistical evidence of the effects of overtime hours on worker productivity using aggregate panel …‐augmented production function model, with possible effects of overtime on productivity incorporated through the specification of factor … effort functions. The empirical results suggest that use of overtime hours lowers average productivity, measured as output …
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general training as well and that this has a positive effect on labour productivity. So far empirical research does not …. This paper presents a sector model that measures the effect of training on productivity. The sector model developed in this …
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productivity and lower wages. A survey of 120 employers in an upstate New York county provides data on benefits packages and …
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firms. Productivity indices are also defined to measure business performance. Based on the survey, four critical HRM factors … pattern has different business performance in terms of productivity. Using a pattern approach, these findings can aid the … firms in each pattern to improve their productivity by improving their HRM strategies.  …
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