1) How does fatigue affect Labour Productivity? Fatigue affects labour productivity by impairing the ability of a worker to carry out his/her required duties as expected and in a safe manner. With increase in fatigue comes a reduction in muscular strength‚ attention to details and loss of concentration. A worker or employee who is gradually losing strength‚ losing concentration and not giving attention to details is usually more prone to mistakes and would not be able to work at his/her optimum
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ASSIGNMENT 1 Submission date 14th November 2014 Where to start? The following text describes the working life of five successful individuals with high levels of job satisfaction. You are asked to read this text and then discuss five questions presented in a table immediately after. You will find each of the assignment questions that you need to address on the left column‚ and the instructions to answer each question on the right column. READ this very carefully as these instructions give
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Work is now commonly organized into teams in most organizations‚ and conventional wisdom is that working in groups is more productive than individual work. Yet‚ research on work in groups shows that teamwork can actually inhibit or even damage productivity. Why? One reason is that under the cover of group work people are less productive‚ sometimes even satisfied that others are the same. Originally‚ this behavior was called “social loafing‚” a term coined by a French professor‚ Max Ringelmann in
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WAYS TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY To talk about improvement we need to know first what productivity is in a technical view as a work application. As Montaño said‚ productivity is the proportion that is achieved between the made product or proportionate service and the inputs that have intervened in the accomplishment of this product or service[1]; a measure of how efficiently an organization converts inputs into outputs. Taking into account its definition‚ it is important to know how to improve the
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Do Effective Managers Also Need To Be Good Leaders? Remember the difference between a boss and a leader: A boss says‚ "Go!" a leader says‚ "Let’s go!" - E.M. Kelly In order to answer the above question‚ we first need to define managers and leaders. Each of who have their roles defined. Then‚ we should compare the differences and similarities between the two‚ and determine if effective managers need to be good leaders. A manager is one who gets things done through other people‚ in order
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International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 2 No.10; June 2011 How Democratic Leaders Empower Teachers Job Satisfaction? The Malaysian Case Cheah Lee Abdul Ghani Kanesan Abdullah Aziah Ismail Naser Jamil Alizydeen School of Educational Studies‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia 11800 Penang‚ Malaysia Abstract This study aims to investigate how democratic leaders work to empower teachers job satisfaction. The present follow-up study uses the naturalistic qualitative and exploratory
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Notes on labor productivity Labor productivity is a key element in the explanation of how the economy works. It is especially important with regard to wages. What follows is some material about labor productivity and investment spending that is a reorganization of what is presented in your textbook. Its focus is on the connection between labor productivity and wages. Labor productivity is the value of the product or service you can produce in an hour‚ day‚ week or other unit of time. The value
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people during this time was Steve Jobs. Not only was Jobs an integral part of the rise in personal computing‚ but he was an excellent motivator for those working under him and those inspiring to be like him. Jobs had a brilliant and creative mind which he used to promote his ideas and show them to the world in a way that they wouldn’t be able to ignore.To introduce the Apple Macintosh personal computer Jobs and his team created an ad campaign launched
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Productivity dilemma Productivity dilemma Abernathy’s productivity dilemma describes businesses trade off between two strategic goals: efficiency and innovation. Efficiency is a result of exploitation‚ there utilizes existing knowledge and capabilities‚ resulting in stable and efficient performance. Innovation or adaptability is a result of exploration‚ which creates new knowledge‚ enabling organizations to innovate‚ and adapt to changing conditions. Paul s. Adler highlights that Abernathy sees
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Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity by Carmen Nobel Introduction The source of this article is a research done by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan S. Bernstein in which he explains how decreasing workplace transparency can increase the productivity of employees. This paper will analyze Bernstein’s research which was conducted on a technologically advanced manufacturer’s plant in Southern China‚ where measures were taken to impose transparency to ensure higher productivity
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