Revolution in Maritime Productivity and Human Resources Development

Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution

Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution

This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and less intensive technology-using industries during these technological breakthroughs. The results show that labor productivity growth and the overall contribu...

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. ...

The Coming Revolution in NATO Maritime Command and Control

Since the turn of the decade NATO has made major improvements in the architecture supporting maritime command and control (C2). As late as the early 1990s, shore-based NATO commanders exercized command and control over their operating forces at sea more or less as had been done during World War II: via paper signals, grease-pencil status boards, metal-backed map boards, and magnetic pucks—repre...

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...