Productivity and efficiency impacts of human resources practices in food retailing

INDUSTRY STUDIES ASSOCATION WORKING PAPER SERIES Productivity and Efficiency Impacts of Human Resources Practices in Food Retailing

Evaluating Labor Productivity in Food Retailing

Competition from new store formats including supercenters, warehouse clubs, and mass merchandisers has emerged as a major threat to traditional grocery chains. A primary objective of this paper is to understand how the store-level performance is related to the workforce composition of full-time and part-time employees chosen by the food retailer along with benefits and incentives provided to em...

Impacts of Nontraditional Food Retailing Supercenters on Food Price Changes

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Relationship between nurses’ working shifts with human resources productivity

Introduction: Nurses play a fundamental role on continuity of care and health promotion and affect ‎organizational utilization. Awareness of nurses’ viewpoint on relationship between working shifts ‎and human resource utilization provides the possibility of increasing their utilization and helps ‎managers in achieving their major and crucial mission of increased utilization. ...

Relationship between Leadership Behavior, Quality of Work Life and Human Resources Productivity: Data from Iran

  Background and Objectives: Quality of work life is an increasingly important organizational factor in health facilities. Most studies on quality of work life in hospitals have been conducted in developed countries. The few studies performed in developing countries have targeted low- and middle-performance hospitals, and they have not explored the relationship between quality of work life and...