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Productivity Improvements in Public Organizations
The Economic Journal, 2001In this paper we examine the possibilities a principal in a public organization has to motivate agents for productivity improvements where standard stick and carrot incentives cannot be used. The principal's only incentive device is a reallocation of budgets and tasks across agents depending on the extent of productivity improvements revealed by each ...
Gersbach, Hans, Keil, Marten
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Product evaluation and process improvement
Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 1994This article discusses how a systematic approach to product selection and evaluation can assist health care personnel. This model considers four tenets: (1) quality, (2) cost, (3) safety, and (4) practitioner choice. An algorithm is utilized to serve as a visual guide for the introduction, trial, and selection of equipment and products.
M, Murray +4 more
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Product use and product improvement
Research Policy, 1990Abstract This paper presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of product improvement. It begins by establishing that in the process by which products are improved, knowledge of user requirements, of product characteristics, of how to redesign products, and about the production process needs to be acquired.
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Discomfort and Productivity in Improved Bricklaying
2004Approximately 20,000 bricklayers and 7000 bricklayer assistants are involved in bricklaying in the Netherlands (Jong et al. 2003). They make new houses, offices, and industrial structures and renovate older buildings. Discomfort during this work is very high (Arbouw 1994): 38Vo of the bricklayers and 36Vo of the bricklayer assistants in the Netherlands
Vink, P. +2 more
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Improving physician productivity
Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 1989S, Hurdle, G C, Pope
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Clinical Engineering Productivity Improvement
Journal of Clinical Engineering, 1986The recent focus on productivity in hospitals due to DRGs, shorter length of patient stays, and lower census has impacted clinical engineering departments. To have an effective and productive clinical engineering program, several organizational and personnel factors should be considered.
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Prospects of Improving Agricultural and Water Productivity through Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Agriculture (Switzerland), 2020James Magidi +2 more
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