1257/jel.49.2.326 What Determines Productivity? C S * Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across businesses are ubiquitous. This nding has shaped research agendas in a number of elds‚ including (but not limited to) macroeconomics‚ industrial organization‚ labor‚ and trade. This paper surveys and evaluates recent empirical work addressing the question of why businesses differ in their measured productivity levels. The causes are manifold‚ and
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A happy or satisfied worker can have many reasons; he/she can have a high salary‚ good working hours‚ bonus holidays‚ or an excellent position in the company. Every individual is satisfied differently. But do happy workers stay over-time or perform better than unhappy workers? According to the book‚ Organizational Behavior‚ organizations with more satisfied employees tend to be more effective than organizations with fewer satisfied employees. Happy workers are now related to organizational
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How to increase productivity It’s a nice performance‚ but it’s no Utopia How many times in a day do you remind yourself to be more productive at work? How often your boss tells you to improve a bit? Even if you are satisfied with the pace you work with or the way you do your assigned tasks‚ there is always some tricky confusion in your mind whether I could have worked better? What else I need to do to make it better? There are so many blurred thoughts which actually pull and push you at
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The phrase "a happy worker is a productive worker" has been coined for a very long time. It is my belief that someone who is satisfied with his/her work (thus‚ happy) will always be more productive compare to someone dissatisfied with his/her work (thus‚ unhappy). But how can a boss make his workers happy‚ this lead us to a hotly debated topic: Performance Appraisal vs. Pay. I personally feel pay approach is more potentially motivating a worker to contribute more to an undertaking. According
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY Nicholas Bloom John Van Reenen Working Paper 16019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 May 2010 This paper has been prepared for a chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume IV edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter. We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for their financial support through the Center for
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THE EFFECTS OF MOTIVATION ON WORKERS PERFORMANCE (A CASE STUDY OF MAIDUGURIFLOUR MILL LTD. BORNO STATE‚ NIGERIA.) ABSTRACT The main focus of this research is to find out the effects of motivation on workers performance in Maiduguri Flour Mills Limited. An effort have been made to evaluate the existing workers motivational policies in Maiduguri Flour Mills with a view to examine the effects of motivation on worker productivity increase and also to identity the variable that are directly or indirectly
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Low Productivity In The Workplace In recent times‚ there have been numerous debates on the topic of low productivity in the workplace‚ which is defined as the organization’s inability to accomplish its maximum capacity. It is important to understand that every employer yearns to be as productive as possible‚ through a dedicated staff. According to managerial theorists‚ productivity is a very important issue in any organization. Some of the causes of low productivity in the workplace include
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different opinions about the relationship between happiness and productivity. But does employee happiness affect his or her performance thus increasing productivity? Well that hasn’t been proven and there aren’t any researches proving that happiness has effect on productivity. "In addition‚ even though no clear defined theoretical justification for a job satisfaction-performance relation‚ over time‚ this supposed happy-productive worker thesis came to be considered as fact by many" (Wright et al.‚
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CHAPTER 1: OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY TRUE/FALSE 1. Some of the operations-related activities of Hard Rock Café include designing meals and analyzing them for ingredient cost and labor requirements. True (Global company profile‚ easy) The production process at Hard Rock Café is limited to meal preparation and serving customers. False (Global company profile‚ easy) All organizations‚ including service firms such as banks and hospitals‚ have a production function. True (What is operations management
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Improving Employee Productivity As you may already know‚ improving the employee productivity is one of the most important goals in any business. But‚ in spite of this‚ a lot of human resources professionals do not consider this field very relevant. Even though most of the human resources professionals do admit that their job is all about establishing schedules and rules concerning people management‚ only a few of them succeeds in bonding all these connections‚ in order to be able to increase
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