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- Surveying the Economic Horizon: A Conversation with Robert Shiller
- The noted economist explains and explores the downturn's root causes — and possible ways forward. In this McKinsey video, economist Robert Shiller discusses four aspects of the current crisis: regulating for financial innovation, reducing trust in models, redesigning institutions, and the time line for turnaround....
- Articles 2009-05-15
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- New Zealand's productivity performance and prospects
- New Zealand's medium-to-longer-run growth prospects and general standard of living critically depend upon its labour productivity performance. Relative to most OECD countries, the level of labour productivity in New Zealand is low and, when measured as GDP per worker, the historic growth performance has also been relatively poor. The apparently...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Varying Types Of Performance Related Pay And Productivity Performance
- Using data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey, the paper indicates that Performance Related Pay PRP schemes that are based on group measures of output are more positively associated with productivity performance than those based on individual measures. It is also suggested that individual-based PRP schemes interact negatively...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Mentor Graphics TestKompress 2007 Improves on Productivity, Performance, and Test Quality
- WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced the release of the TestKompress[R] 2007 software tool -- an enhanced version of the ground-breaking tool that introduced scan test pattern compression to the marketplace. The TestKompress 2007 product offers significant improvements in the most important aspects of automatic test...
- Research articles 2006-10-23
- Investigating the Association Between Productivity and Quality Performance in Two Manufacturing Settings
- The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between productivity and quality performance in two manufacturing settings. In all, the results of this study ascertain the close association between quality and productivity performance and validates the findings of a similar study in the service industry. The quality...
- White papers 2004-03-25
- Ownership, Productivity Change, and Financial Performance in Chinese Industry
- The white paper examines differences in marginal factor productivity across ownership types, considers the impact of business cycles on the interpretation of productivity trends, and documents a statistical relationship between the profitability of state enterprises, relative productivity performance of state firms, and entry of new firms outside the state sector.
- White papers 2000-08-24
- Comparisons of economic performance: Canada versus Australia, 1983-2000
- Although Australia performed better than Canada in terms of productivity growth for the overall economy, the standards of living for both countries grew at the same pace; sources of productivity growth reveal key differences between the two countries Productivity performance has been a topic of interest throughout recent decades....
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Productivity, Factor Accumulation And Social Networks: Theory And Evidence
- The paper analyzes how social barriers to communication affect economy-wide productivity and factor accumulation. Using a dynamic model of an economy that includes a reproducible capital stock physical or human and effective labor, a negative relationship is shown to exist between social barriers to communication and Total Factor Productivity TFP,...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Bernanke says America's productivity helped by technology, economic
- WASHINGTON -- America's strong productivity performance has been bolstered not only by the greater use of computers and other technologies but also by the economy's flexibility, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday. Those were some of the explanations the Fed chief offered to explain why productivity since...
- Research articles 2006-06-09
- Britain's productivity gap with the United States abd Europe: a historical perspective
- Since the mid-1990s, an almost universal belief has developed amongst economic commentators that the United States has undergone a productivity miracle and that European economies are now suffering from chronic sclerosis. As a result, the 'American model' dominates the agenda of policy towards growth and productivity performance in Britain. This...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Productivity, Performance And HRM
- At its simplest productivity is about making an organisation run more efficiently by improving the ratio between the inputs needed to achieve outputs. This can involve either minimising the inputs used to produce a given level of outputs cost minimisation or maximising the level of outputs produced from a given...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Britain's Trade Secretary Blames British Management for Poor Productivity.
- By Allister Heath, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 20--She has never held a job in trade or industry and her only real experience with business was a stint at Andersen Consulting during the mid- 1990s, but Patricia Hewitt, Britain's...
- Research articles 2002-10-20
- Increasing the Productivity of Your Sales Force
- The first task of a program to improve sales force productivity is to determine how much time the sales force actually spends selling. Factors such as poor call rates, travel time, sickness, and vacations all serve to reduce potential sales time. Database techniques can improve sales performance by enabling analysis...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Introducing a Productivity Initiative
- In a company where good, solid, and effective managerial processes exist already, many of the techniques for improving productivity should be easy to incorporate. Though technical capabilities are crucial, implementing new systems can be expensive and often lead to drastic reductions in productivity. Employing innovative managerial techniques is a cheaper...
- Articles 2008-01-30
- Measuring Productivity On High Performance Computers
- In the high performance computing domain, the speed of execution of a program has typically been the primary performance metric. But productivity is also of concern to high performance computing developers. This paper discusses the problems of defining and measuring productivity for these machines and a model of productivity is...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Analysis Of Various Assembly System Configurations With Respect To Quality And Productivity
- Traditional assembly lines have been largely serial in nature. However, advancements in controls and other technology have allowed for the implementation of alternative system configurations, including the use of parallel systems. These systems offer improvements in productivity, but their performance with regards to quality, particularly dimensional variation, is not well...
- White papers 2000-05-01
- CEO Incentives And Firm Productivity
- This paper investigates the relation between firm productivity and CEO performance incentives. It is first found that CEO equity ownership enhances firm productivity and that firm productivity enhances corporate financial performance. Then it is found that the relation between CEO performance incentives and productivity is quite complex. There is an...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Corporate Productivity Growth: Leaders And Laggards
- This paper considers the relative productivity growth performance of a balanced sample of 80 large UK firms over few years, using two different benchmarks from which to compute productivity growth differences. It is found that there is almost no persistence in superior productivity growth performance however measured - firms that...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Revisiting Recent Productivity Developments Across OECD Countries
- This paper compares productivity developments across industrial countries based on official OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) data in the business sector. It discusses the uncertainties surrounding the measurement of both productivity levels and productivity growth, and then focuses on changes in productivity growth. The paper analyses labour productivity...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Happiness Leads To Productivity? Not So, Says Psychologist
- Happiness Leads To Productivity? Not So, Says PsychologistHappiness in workHappiness in work realy works! Every morning in my company we make exercises with the whole staff and since I started making this I started felling happier end more productive at work.RE: Happiness Leads To Productivity? Not So, Says PsychologistI don't...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
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