OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess construct and discriminant validity of four health-related work productivity loss questionnaires in relation to employer productivity metrics, and to describe variation in economic estimates of productivity loss provided by the questionnaires in healthy workers. METHODS Fifty-eight billing office workers completed surveys including health informati...

Productivity is a key element in organizational management. Although it can be measured at different levels (country, sector, organization ...) this research focuses on productivity at the job level. The aim of this paper is to obtain an overview of the state of the art in productivity measurement in software engineering, including the inputs and outputs of the production process used for this ...

Recent statistics from the OECD concerning productivity growth at the macroeconomic level show a sort of paradoxical shift in the relationship between the recent upheaval of real investment in new information technology and productivity growth. Table 1 represents the trends of productivity changes in both Japan and the U.S. during the periods 1960-90. Even if there were sizable new investment (...

improving water productivity in food production has been a basic global issue, especially incountries with limited water resources like iran. due to quantitative and qualitative limitationsof water, measurement and analysis of agricultural water productivity indicators in irandeserve special attention. accordingly, in the present study, the physical and economicalproductivity of crops in bahar ...

A consistent way to measure the elements that go into computing software productivity is deÞned. Software productivity metrics terminology are given to ensure an understanding of measurement data for both source code and document production. Although this standard prescribes measurements to characterize the software process, it does not establish software productivity norms, nor does it recomme...

Matt Russell and Paul Takac are economists, and Lisa Usher is Chief of the Division of IndustryProductivity Studies, in the Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics. E-mail: Russell.Matthew @bls.gov [email protected] [email protected] The NAICS classification system presents a more consistent framework and a conceptual improvement for productivity measurement; while p...

by reviewing literature of human productivity, it's obvious that participation of employees and partnership environment is one of the main suggestions. but how human productivity is affected by participation of employees? this paper tries to answer this question. in other word, in this paper illustrated that participation of employees initiates two groups of guarantees that improve product...