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Does Team Telecommuting Affect Productivity? An Experiment

Dutcher, E. Glenn; Saral, Krista Jabs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Telecommuting policies have been increasingly adopted by employers. The benefits of telecommuting from the employer's perspective include direct cost-saving from not having to house employees in an office and indirect cost-saving through reduced turnover associated with increased employee...

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Decision Support Systems and the Economics of Seeding Rate in Crop Yield

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The present study constructs a decision support system to determine the best seeding rate out of a group of seeding rates applied in the field. The DSS has been built receives the field data as inputs, and then apply split plot algorithms of (Gomez & Gomez, 1984) to find the results. These...

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The Role of Employee Retention and Employee Productivity on the Performance of Oil & Gas Sector of Pakistan

Hunjra, Ahmed Imran; Raza, Hassan; Munir, Irfan Ullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Purpose: Human resource management practices are essential for managers to be followed that need to be implemented and new processes that continuously be practised by different level of employees. The objective of this study is to examine the association between the employee retention, and...

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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...

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Revisiting Import-Substituting Industrialisation in Post-War Brazil

Colistete, Renato P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post-war years and became more technologically sophisticated,...

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Productivité et ouverture en Afrique du Nord : une étude empirique.

Bouoiyour, Jamal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

This paper examines, within the framework of a panel data model's, the relation between the commercial opening, the foreign direct investment and the growth of the productivity of the North African countries (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia) from 1970 to 2001. The results suggest a...

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Analyzing the Input Output Relationship of Small and Medium Enterprises in Pakistan: An Econometric Approach

Zulfiqar, Salyha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The establishment and promotion of the SMEs is considered to be the solution to many of the problems of the developing … of the 3-digit forty eight SMEs of Pakistan for the year 2005-2006.Different variables like labor male and female, local … of SMEs. Most of the variables are significant having expected relationship with output, however female labor both …

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Consequence of Job Satisfaction Factors on the Productivity Level of Operating Core

Baaren, Terence; Galloway, Cornelia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The purpose of this article is to uncover the relationship of job satisfaction factors on the productivity level of operating core of manufacturing firm in textile mill. The theoretical approach that has been in this study to examine job satisfaction is Hertzberg’s two-factor theory of...

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Entry, Exit, and Productivity in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Ben Jelili, Riadh; Goaied, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Almost all countries in the MENA region entered the new millennium with large unemployment rates. In this context, decision makers emphasize the role of efficient markets which could lead to higher firm creation rates and thereby, to lower unemployment rates. Aside to direct employment effects,...

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Efficiency And Productivity Growth Across The Italian Regions: The Regional Divide Revisited

Pompei, Fabrizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper we study the efficiency and total factor productivity growth of Italian regions by implementing a bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis method. This approach allows us to perform a sensitivity analysis of the efficiency scores at regional level, in which human capital is included...

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