Evidence of substantial growth in unionization among university noninstructional staff over the past 20 years (Hurd and Woodhead, 1987) and the emergence of a quality movement in higher education linking employee attitudes toward the work environment with increased productivity point to the need for additional research into union and nonunion staff perceptions of the work environment. This pape...

As the NHS in England grapples with the longest funding squeeze in its history, the quest for greater productivity becomes ever more pressing. Two new analyses published this week show that the productivity of consultants in NHS hospitals has fallen over the past six years. The authors reject any notion that this means doctors need to work harder but argue that we need to rethink how we seek an...

Management factors to optimize the productivity of the weaned pig include communicating the proper message to barn staff, sanitation and barn preparation practices, healthy pigs of maximum weight and age entering the barn, and feeding management practices. Clearly, these factors are interrelated and important to optimize nursery productivity.

Efforts to boost productivity in hospital wards will fail unless acute nurses and other key staff are involved from the beginning, suggests an RCN policy briefing.

the productivity of a clinical chemistry laboratory was measured in both a Canadian and a British tertiary care teaching hospital using 1977 data and the 1976 edition of the Canadian Schedule of Unit Values. Although productivity, measured as units produced per person or per paid hour, was lower in the British than in the Canadian teaching hospital-due to the British day-release system of staff...

In this paper, the bootstrapping Malmquist index is used to derive the productivity levels of Iranian steam power plants for the period of 2007e2012. The research shows that the average level of productivity has significantly decreased. It was also indicated that technological changes have had more effects on productivity than efficiency changes. To study the influence of various explanatory fa...

The present paper aims at studying factors affecting knowledge workers’ productivity in national Iranian Oil Company, using descriptive survey method. 90 experts working at staff divisions were sampled, using census method and responded to a reliably confirmed questionnaire. One sample t test revealed at α= 0.05 that individual level factors, such as competence, job satisfaction, proficiency ha...