The increased mass-customisation of production requires operators to manage an increasing number of complex work tasks. From a social sustainability perspective, better sharing and dissemination of production information supports operators cognitively to manage and understand their work tasks, which in turn improves quality of work. So, the focus of this paper is to study how production plannin...

Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is either a piece rate,...

♦ Corresponding author Abstract This paper proposes the development of intelligent sensors as part of an integrated systems approach, i.e. one treats the sensors as a complete system with its own sensing hardware (the traditional sensor), A/D converters, processing and storage capabilities, software drivers, selfassessment algorithms, communication protocols and evolutionary methodologies that ...

Acquisition and development of key transferable skills is an important requirement for all graduate employees. The aim of the current study was to investigate a potential skills shortage in bioscience students and, if revealed, explore ways of addressing it. A research questionnaire, which included mixed methodology, was used to collate information from a cohort of students across levels four, ...

Remarkable advances in instructional communication technology (ICT) have now made is possible to provide high levels of enrichment and the kinds of curricular differentiation that facilitate advanced learning services to students who have access to a computer and the Internet. But in order to maximize the potential if ICT it is necessary to construct programs that are based on learning theory t...

 Current educational environments rely primarily on a text-based syllabus approach to describing course content as well as whole curricula. This traditional approach is too limiting, especially when it comes to distance learning environments. It fails to delineate the relationship of concepts and skills covered in a given course to those covered in other courses. It also fails to show the know...

Improvement can be understood as a project that is undertaken to obtain additional benefits to the organization and its customers. In the literature, the term is most often present in the context of pro quality activities as a “continuous improvement”. In the companies’ practice it is striving for excellence that manifests itself through the implementation of various concepts, methods and impro...

Flipping a classroom involves a more interactive class model where students and instructors spend the majority of the class time on various interactive activities in engagement with class materials. Often, this pedagogy style involves taking advantage of the new interactive technologies. In this work, we describe an experiment in an introduction to programming class (CS1) in which we compared t...

This paper presents a patient safety applicator tool for implementing and assessing patient safety systems in health care institutions. The applicator tool consists of critical processes and performance measures identified in the context of the 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence. The Delphi technique was used for gaining consensu...

KORA-Age is a multidisciplinary research consortium funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FKZ 01ET1003). The objective of KORAAge is to examine the prevalence and determinants of mortality, multi-morbidity, functioning and successful ageing in persons aged 65 years or older in a large cohort of randomly selected inhabitants of the region of Augsburg, Germany. The KORA...