Overall goal of our research is to incorporate human factors engineering into scheduling theory in order to exploit optimized human performance. Tour scheduling problem in which part-time employees have variable performance have been studied in this paper. Our model objective function is minimization of costs of staffing and tries to determine the best shift duration and employees assignment in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of ETTH on HRQoL in a sample of employees of a Brazilian public hospital. METHOD Three hundred and sixty Mário Gatti Hospital employees were asked about headache occurrence in the previous 6 months and completed a SF-36 and a pain questionnaires concerning impact of pain (0 to 10 scale) on daily activities, work efficiency, leisure and social activities in pre...

The aging of population has become a global trend and the critical knowledge of enterprises may be lost with the retirement of senior employees. Task-based cooperation is an important method to prevent the loss of knowledge and to promote the knowledge sharing behavior between senior employees and young ones. This paper constructs the knowledge contribution payoff functions of senior employees ...

Indian banking industry, today is in the midst of an IT revolution. A combination of regulatory and competitive reasons has led to increasing importance of total banking automation in the Indian Banking Industry. The purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of information technology on operational activities of banks, operational efficiency of employees and to acquaint with the level of sa...

Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity and efficiency have been seen as opposing aims in such work environments:...

The problem of improving the efficiency of the teaching department through the development of teaching department work area is described. Development of an automated workplace of a teaching department who allows to realize monitoring of progress of students, monitoring of mastering of disciplines by students, is synchronized with an automated workplace of the teacher of the higher school and au...

The inherent unobservability of shirking activity presents a serious challenge to obtaining direct evidence of the efficiency wage hypothesis. We begin with a model of shirking absenteeism in which employees’ marginal utility of outdoor leisure is increasing in health. In equilibrium, the positive relation between weather quality and sickness absenteeism reflects the behavior of the inframargin...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of e-mail interruptions on tasks and to explore the concept of e-mail addiction within the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from a large car rental company in the UK. The first collection method involved observing the effects of simulated e-mail interruptions on seven employees by measuring the interrupt ha...