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Reduced Worktime and the Management of Production

Choice Reviews Online, 1989
This book examines the tendency in market economies to reduce the time workers spend at their place of employment and considers the role scientific management has played in this development. The author contends that the changing nature of worktime can be explained by changes in both the capitalistic production process and the demands that this process ...
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Worktime control-dependent reductions in fatigue, sleep problems, and depression

Applied Ergonomics, 2011
We investigated the association between worktime control and fatigue, sleep problems, and depressive symptoms in a sample of daytime and shift workers. A total of 3681 permanent daytime workers and 599 shift workers completed a questionnaire designed to assess the above variables.
Masaya, Takahashi, Kenji, Iwasaki, Takeshi, Sasaki, Tomohide, Kubo, Ippei, Mori, Yasumasa, Otsuka   +5 more
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WorkTimer

2023
ESCI
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Worktime Scheduling

The work presents an automatic work scheduling system based mostly on genetic algorithms, along with an analysis of various possible solutions. We discuss possible methods of encoding the work schedule in the chromosome, possible crossover and mutation operators, and possible forms of fitness functions.
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The Economics of Worktime Length, Adjustment, and Flexibility

Review of Social Economy, 1996
An electic framework is developed to understand long-term and short-term patterns in worktime, and to explain labor market anomalies such as the downward inflexibility of the workweek and coexistence of underemployment and overemployment. Neoclassical labor demand and supply models focus narrowly on monetary cost and individual welfare consequences ...
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The Income and Fatigue Explanations for Worktime Change

Journal of Industrial Relations, 1989
For the last century the industrialized capitalist nations have been characterized by a tendency to reduce the length of time employees spend at their place of paid employment. Within the contemporary economic and industrial relations literature, there are two primary contending explanations for this phenomenon.
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Analysis of opportunity costs of unused worktime

2022
The idea for this bachelor thesis was born out of the author's observations about his daily schedule and time management problems, during his second year of the International Business graduate studies program. The author thought it would be beneficial to research this topic by conducting a survey among students and young adults, with the goal of better
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Worktime and Industrialization: An International History

Labour History, 1990
Gerry Phelan, Gary Cross
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Worker Learning and Worktime Flexibility

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1984
Edward Cavin, Gretl S. Meier
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Reduced Worktime and the Management of Production.

The Economic History Review, 1990
Chris Wrigley, Chris Nyland
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