Work is now commonly organized into teams in most organizations‚ and conventional wisdom is that working in groups is more productive than individual work. Yet‚ research on work in groups shows that teamwork can actually inhibit or even damage productivity. Why? One reason is that under the cover of group work people are less productive‚ sometimes even satisfied that others are the same. Originally‚ this behavior was called “social loafing‚” a term coined by a French professor‚ Max Ringelmann in
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From Table8 it has found that observed value and expected value of authors and number of publication are totally different from each other‚ hence Lotka’s Law of Author Productivity does not applicable here. 5.9Types of Documents cited by authors: In any research work different types of documents are cited by the authors. From this analysis it can be understand whether researcher are mostly focuses on the primary document or in the secondary document. Table 11 Types of Documents cited by authors
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Case Study 7.1.: ERP Helps Productivity at Northern Digital Inc. Question: 1. For a small company like NDI‚ why is an ERP better than SCM applications? Answer: ERP supports internal supply chain within an enterprise‚ while SCM applications support just certain part of internal supply chain. Therefore‚ for small companies like NDI‚ it’s more efficient and effective to implement one system‚ namely ERP‚ instead of more SCM systems. Further‚ ERP software support several functionalities for supply
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and equipment which reduces the wastage and ultimately it reduces the cost for an organization. The trainees will acquire more knowledge and new ideas and it will increase their potential and it will increase individual productivity and finally it will lead to overall productivity of the organization. Therefore training plays a vital role in the organization and contributes to its growth and sustainability. Training can be initiated for various reasons for individual employees or group of employees
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Leadership Quarterly‚ Vol 7 No 3‚ pp 323-352 House‚ R. J. (1971)‚ A Path-Goal Theory of Leader Effectiveness‚” Administrative Science Quarterly‚ 16 (September)‚ 321-338 Johnson‚ R. R. (2006). Management influences on officer traffic enforcement productivity. International Journal of Police Science & Management‚ 8(3)‚ 205-217. Kouzes‚ J.‚ & Posner‚ B. (2007). The leadership challenge (4th ed.). San Francisco‚ CA US: Jossey- Bass Kouzes‚ J. M.‚ & Posner‚ B. Z. (2003). Encouraging the heart: A leader’s
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must know what motivates and attracts quality workers‚ with most the paycheck is just not enough‚ they also require benefits or perks to stay or come with a company. Using benefits as a strategic component helps enhance the effectiveness‚ morale‚ productivity and achievement of goals. Employees tend to be more motivated to work when they feel they are attended to. When they can feel that they have benefited from the organization‚ they become loyal to an employer and will stay from moving to other organizations
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UDC: 519.866;330.11;330.35 JEL Classification: O47‚ E23 Keywords: potential output‚ production function‚ labor share‚ total factor productivity Cobb-Douglas Production Function: The Case of a Converging Economy Dana HÁJKOVÁ – Czech National Bank and CERGE-EI (dana.hajkova@cnb.cz) Jaromír HURNÍK – Czech National Bank‚ Institute for Economic Studies‚ Faculty of Social Sciences‚ Charles University‚ Prague‚ and Faculty of Economics and Public Administration‚ University of Economics‚ Prague (jaromir
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A Perky Way to Productivity 1. Many businesses today are using benefit packages in creative ways as strategic tools to stay competitive in the recruiting market. Human resource departments must constantly be reimagining their approach to developing a benefits program that will attract‚ motivate‚ and retain the best employees. (DeCenzo‚ 293) Both Zappos and Genentech human resource departments have went to great lengths to make their employee’s experience with each respective company‚ feel more
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Why is productivity growth important in our economy? This is the first question that we should be asking ourselves before analyzing its components. Productivity growth is one of the determinants of the growth in wages and living standards in a country. Productivity growth its followed from improvements in the production process. If efficiency increases‚ output must increase faster than inputs in order to achieve efficiency. Achieving labour productivity growth is a key determinant of long term growth
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Investment on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania Msuya‚ Elibariki Kyoto University 2007 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3671/ MPRA Paper No. 3671‚ posted 07. November 2007 / 03:23 The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania Elibariki Msuya‚ mzeeba@hotmail.com Kyoto University‚ Japan Abstract In this paper‚ the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on agricultural productivity and poverty reduction
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