Issue paper one: Productivity and Quality Management Executive Report Prepared by G.Y. Attanayake MBA/2003/1448 Course : MBA 501 Managing Business Operations Dr. Travis Perera and Mr. A.K.L Jayawardana July‚ 2003 POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT University of Sri Jayewardenepura TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE NO. EXECUTIVE SUMMERY 4 1.0 INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY IN THE MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE SECTORS 1.1.1 Productivity Defined and Explained 5 1.1.1.1 Why Productivity
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Inducing Intrinsic Motivation to Explore the Enterprise System: The Supremacy of Organizational Levers Weiling Ke‚ Chuan-Hoo Tan‚ Choon-Ling Sia‚ and Kwok-Kee Wei Weiling Ke is an associate professor of operations and information systems in the School of Business at Clarkson University. She holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. Her research areas are enterprise systems‚ open source software‚ and electronic commerce. Her research has been published in the Journal of Operations Management
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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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MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY THEORY: A theory used to analyze the profit-maximizing quantity of inputs (that is‚ the services of factor of productions) purchased by a firm in the production of output. Marginal-productivity theory indicates that the demand for a factor of production is based on the marginal product of the factor. In particular‚ a firm is generally willing to pay a higher price for an input that is more productive and contributes more to output. The demand for an input is thus best termed
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Prevention and Management of Workplace Violence Submitted by Your name Course title Instructor name Date of submission University name • Define workplace violence • What type of strategies or interventions should HR management adopt to protect employees while at work? Prevention and Management of Workplace Violence Work place violence can be described as threatening‚ abusing‚ and physically harm to employees at the workplace. For example a Spanish teacher who came with Ak-47 in a guitar
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These twelve productivity improvement techniques are explained as follows:- 1. Value Engineering (VE) : Value Engineering (VE) is the process of improving the value of a product at every stage of the product life cycle. At the development stage‚ VE improves the value of a product by reducing the cost without reducing quality. At the maturity stage‚ VE reduces the cost by replacing the costly components (parts) by cheaper components. VE also tries to improve the value and quality of the product
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3.What is motivation..? Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job‚ role or subject‚ or to make an effort to attain a goal. Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors such as the intensity of desire or need‚ incentive or reward value of the goal‚ and expectations of the individual and of his or her peers. These factors are the reasons one has for behaving a certain
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5. Concluding the interview 6. Evaluating results of the interview CHAPTER 8: ORIENTATION Orientation – the acculturation process to assist new employees in adjusting to their jobs and work environment and instil a positive work attitude and motivation. It is also socializing process‚ the welcome and the initial introduction to the organization‚ and the work of the employee. Major objectives of orientation: 1. Gain employee commitment 2. Reduce one’s anxiety 3. Help the employee understand
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peoples ’ skills and abilities as used in employment and otherwise contribute to the economy. (wikipedia) These are definitions that the dictionary on line and investors ’ words on line give‚ but in this paper‚ I will explain human capital and productivity based on Wheelan ’s concepts‚ and other sources. I use real people ’s examples for a better understanding. Human beings possess qualities‚ skills‚ and talents that make them different from other human beings. Skills are considered human capital
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5 MOTIVATION AT WORK CHAPTER SCAN THIS IS THE FIRST OF TWO CHAPTERS ON MOTIVATION‚ BEHAVIOR‚ AND PERFORMANCE. THIS CHAPTER ADDRESSES THE EARLY CONTENT THEORIES OF MOTIVATION THAT ARE RELATED TO THE INTERNAL FACTORS THAT EXPLAIN BEHAVIOR. MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS AND MCGREGOR’S ASSUMPTIONS ARE DISCUSSED AND COMPARED. MCCLELLAND’S NEED THEORY IS PRESENTED‚ FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION OF HERZBERG’S TWO-FACTOR THEORY OF HYGIENE FACTORS
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