We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment of the companies to let the employees participate in any efficiency gain. Resistance against technical progress becomes less plausible. Moreover, employees are stimulated to share their specific information advantage on possibilities to optimize the production process and produ...

Circadian Technologies, Inc. (CIRCADIAN) is an international consulting firm that for over 20 yr has helped employees better cope with shiftwork, while ensuring their employers reduce costs and maximize profits. This paper describes two of the methods employed to reduce accidents, absenteeism, and turnover, while improving morale and productivity in extended hour operations (shiftwork). Shiftwo...

In a cost conscious society the research based pharmaceutical company is increasingly being portrayed as a profiteer and the company manufacturing generic drugs as a cutter of costs to the NHS. Clearly such an extreme view is both shortsighted and wrong, particularly as unreasonable profits are prevented by the direct control of the Department of Health. In putting the case for prescribing drug...

Many researchers have noted that large information technology (IT) investments in the United States have not been accompanied by gains in productivity. This phenomenon has been termed the "productivity paradox". The assumption underlying this paradox is that IT should enable individuals and organizations to become more productive. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the results...

Some researchers have proposed that practices facilitating learning and knowledge transfer are particularly important to innovation. Some of the practices that researchers have studied include how organizations collaborate with other organizations, how organizations promote learning, and how an organization’s culture facilitates knowledge transfer and learning. And while some have proposed the ...

This paper presents the results of a study concerning the evaluation of different decisions of a Satellite Operator leasing capacity to different customers requesting different services. The study was done for Hellas-Sat (the Greek satellite operator) and addresses a real situation. Data concerning demands of several customers were collected using those available in particular organizations and...

The organization will be affected by the presence of employees. The dedication of employees will decide whether organization will earn profit or not. The simulative environment is constructed in the proposed paper using Netlogo in order to analyse impact of agents within the organization. The belief revisioning is considered as a factor of altering the faith of the agents due to which agents ma...

although organizational learning is often known as a goal, in the view of many stakeholders, the final aim of many organizations is optimization of financial results such as productivity, and  innovation is among various factors which optimizes the organizations financial performance, however, as firms seek financial performance improvement, higher profit and minimum cost, it is necessary to un...

We study the effect of hierarchies on the performance of an organization that exhibits both profit sharing and information sharing. We adopt a server-queue model of effort and intraorganizational competition and quantify the performance of an organization in terms of the overall efficiency and risk in meeting target production levels. On the one hand, we show that profit sharing leads to free r...

atholic health care finds itself within a rapidly changing landscape. In response, some Catholic hospitals and collaborative health systems are making structural changes. Some systems have decided to forego formal recognition by the local bishop, for example, while a few hospitals and systems have begun to explore for-profit corporate structures. These and other new models-in-the-making may hav...