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Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsNoisy workplaces common in low- and middle-income countries can impair workers' cognitive functions. However, whether this lowers earnings depends on the importance of these functions for productivity and whether workers understand these effects. I study
Joshua T. Dean
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Are Older Workers Harmful for Firm Productivity?
De Economist, 2009This paper investigates the effects of the workforce age structure on the productivity of large Belgian firms. More precisely, it examines different scenarios of changes in the proportion of young (16–29 years), middle-aged (30–49 years) and older (more than 49 years) workers and their expected effects on firm productivity.
Lallemand, Thierry, Rycx, François
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Worker Reputation and Productivity Incentives
Journal of Labor Economics, 1987This paper examines firms' problem of how to motivate risk-averse workers not to shirk when workers' utility functions are unknown. The problem is studied in a 2-period setting in which a worker's actions today can influence not only his compensation today but the firms' beliefs about his preferences. Firms cannot credibly commit to ignore the revealed
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Information and knowledge worker productivity
Information Processing & Management, 1983Abstract Information is an essential ingredient in office work, in management decision making, and in knowledge worker productivity. Automated office information systems are designed to process information more efficiently and more effectively so as to increase the productivity of the office staff and the profitability of the organization.
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Journal of business research, 2017
This study proposes a novel research model to investigate the neglected and pivotal mediating role of knowledge-worker productivity between knowledge management processes (knowledge generation, knowledge sharing, and knowledge application) and innovation.
Muhammad Shujahat +5 more
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This study proposes a novel research model to investigate the neglected and pivotal mediating role of knowledge-worker productivity between knowledge management processes (knowledge generation, knowledge sharing, and knowledge application) and innovation.
Muhammad Shujahat +5 more
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Workers' compensation and health and productivity
Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2004This article presents a conceptual framework that allows the practitioner to appreciate the relationship between health status and health interventions and productivity in relation to workers' compensation care. Factors important to productivity for individual workers are indicated.
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Productivity of computer-dependent workers
IBM Systems Journal, 1975Beginning with a description of various degrees of computer dependency among workers, a model of the worker-computer process is constructed. The model demonstrates the characteristic forms of functional dependencies and suggests ways in which these dependencies can be evaluated.
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The impact of knowledge management on knowledge worker productivity
Baltic Journal of Management, 2018Purpose The productivity of knowledge workers is crucial not only for organizational innovation and competitiveness but also for sustainable development.
A. Kianto +4 more
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Management Sciences, 2017
Public relative performance feedback (RPF) on an individual worker’s productivity metrics is used in various organizations with the hopes of improving worker productivity, but its effects are not well understood.
Hummy Song +3 more
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Public relative performance feedback (RPF) on an individual worker’s productivity metrics is used in various organizations with the hopes of improving worker productivity, but its effects are not well understood.
Hummy Song +3 more
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The impact of temperature on manufacturing worker productivity: Evidence from personnel data
Journal of comparative economics (Print), 2018This paper presents novel evidence on the impact of temperature on daily indoor worker productivity in a non-climate-controlled manufacturing environment in China. Combining individual worker productivity data from personnel records with weather data, it
Xiqian Cai, Yi Lu, Jin Wang
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