Worker Knowledge of Pension Provisions

Permanent and Total Disability Benefit Provisions in Industrial Pension Plans

P UBLIC interest and attention have recently been focused on the provision of disability retirement as well as age retirement benefits in industrial pension plans as a result of the series of collective bargaining agreements concluded in a number of major industries in the fall of 1949. The first of these agreements was signed on September 28, 1949, by the Ford Motor Company and the United Auto...

Knowledge Worker Productivity Evaluation Model in Industry

The present study has been conducted qualitatively with an exploratory approach and using thematic analysis. The statistical population of the research is experts in the field of human resource management and productivity and the statistical sample is 16 experts in this field who have been introduced and interviewed by purposeful judgment and snowball method. Kappa intra-subject coefficient was...

Modeling Knowledge Worker Activity

This paper describes an approach to constructing a probabilistic process model representing knowledge worker activity out of a log of primitive events, such as e-mails, web page visits and document accesses. Firstly, we present the process of enriching the primitive events into abstract actions, executed in different contexts. We explain the process of obtaining both context and action for each...

Productivity in Knowledge Worker Teams

The use of Information and Communication Technologies in work processes has not brought the expected productivity improvement. Some studies even suggest that the always-on model decreases productivity. This article proposes work teams as a new unit for knowledge worker productivity analysis in organizations. Organizations’ ability to adopt new analysis measures is analyzed in three case studies.

Pension Plan Provisions and Retirement: Men and Women, Medicare, and Models