Interplay of Technology and Labour Productivity: Emerging Story of Consumer Electronics in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-143
Author(s):  
Bino Paul ◽  
Mansi Awasthi
Author(s):  
Thai Young Kim ◽  
Rommert Dekker ◽  
Christiaan Heij

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that intentional demand forecast bias can improve warehouse capacity planning and labour efficiency. It presents an empirical methodology to detect and implement forecast bias. Design/methodology/approach A forecast model integrates historical demand information and expert forecasts to support active bias management. A non-linear relationship between labour productivity and forecast bias is employed to optimise efficiency. The business analytic methods are illustrated by a case study in a consumer electronics warehouse, supplemented by a survey among 30 warehouses. Findings Results indicate that warehouse management systematically over-forecasts order sizes. The case study shows that optimal bias for picking and loading is 30-70 per cent with efficiency gains of 5-10 per cent, whereas the labour-intensive packing stage does not benefit from bias. The survey results confirm productivity effects of forecast bias. Research limitations/implications Warehouse managers can apply the methodology in their own situation if they systematically register demand forecasts, actual order sizes and labour productivity per warehouse stage. Application is illustrated for a single warehouse, and studies for alternative product categories and labour processes are of interest. Practical implications Intentional forecast bias can lead to smoother workflows in warehouses and thus result in higher labour efficiency. Required data include historical data on demand forecasts, order sizes and labour productivity. Implementation depends on labour hiring strategies and cost structures. Originality/value Operational data support evidence-based warehouse labour management. The case study validates earlier conceptual studies based on artificial data.


2015 ◽  
pp. 30-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Voskoboynikov ◽  
V. Gimpelson

This study considers the influence of structural change on aggregate labour productivity growth of the Russian economy. The term "structural change" refers to labour reallocation both between industries and between formal and informal segments within an industry. Using Russia KLEMS and official Rosstat data we decompose aggregate labour productivity growth into intra-industry (within) and between industry effects with four alternative methods of the shift-share analysis. All methods provide consistent results and demonstrate that total labour reallocation has been growth enhancing though the informality expansion has had a negative effect. As our study suggests, it is caused by growing variation in productivity levels across industries.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Patrick Godefroid ◽  
Tobias Keber ◽  
Boris A. Kühnle ◽  
Oliver Zöllner

Smart-TVs mit immer eindrucksvolleren Fähigkeiten sind der Trend im Bereich der Consumer Electronics. Die intelligenten Geräte sind nicht nur eine technische Neuerung, sondern sie stellen traditionelle Konzepte in Wirtschaft, Recht, Politik und Gesellschaft vor große Herausforderungen. Die bisweilen auch als „Hybrid-TV“ bezeichneten Gerate stehen für eine neue Dimension der Konvergenz und rücken als Forschungsgegenstand in den Fokus ganz unterschiedlicher medienwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen. Technisch muss man sich zunächst einmal klarmachen, wie die Verschmelzung von Fernseh- und Online- Welt tatsächlich funktioniert und welche Begrifflichkeiten die neue Fernsehwelt hervorgebracht hat. In wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht stellt sich dann unter anderem die Frage, wie weit Charakteristika der Internet-Ökonomie bei einem Verknüpfen von Internet und Fernsehen Implikationen für die Erlös- und Refinanzierungsmodelle des TV haben. Ob die noch immer rundfunkzentrierten Vorgaben des Medienrechts die mit Smart-TV einhergehenden Fragen tatsachlich noch sachgerecht adressieren, ist fraglich, was einen Blick auf die medienpolitische Entwicklung erforderlich macht. Schließlich besteht Erörterungsbedarf dahingehend, wie sich der stärkere Grad der Individualisierung von Inhalten und die damit verbundene Zersplitterung der Rezeptionswirkung auf die Gesellschaft auswirken.


Upravlenie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
A. O. Ivanov

The article gives an overview, performs analysis and classification of successful managerial practices applied at Russian industrial enterprises in the framework of the national project “Labour productivity and employment support”. The paper emphasizes the main factors of labour productivity growth as follows: investment policy, growth of human capital, and efficient use of managerial capital of enterprise. In order to determine the need of enterprises to increase labour productivity, the author proposes four universal criteria that signal the existing inefficiency even before the loss of competitiveness: 1) the dynamics of labour productivity in the company is not positive during a given period; 2) the company is behind competitors by labour productivity indicator; 3) the company is behind competitors by labour productivity growth rates indicator for a certain period; 4) unit production costs rise. These criteria allow you to take into account the situation both within the enterprise and in comparison with other enterprises. Each criteria can be considered separately or in combination with the others, applied to enterprises of different industries, specialization, and scale. Criteria indicate the direction of development in which the company is experiencing difficulties at the moment, or may experience them in the future.


1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Endres

This article discusses distinctive features of the New Zealand debate on the economics of wages and wages policy from 1931 up to the restoration of compulsory arbitration in 1936. Local economic orthodoxy proffered advice which, consistent with Keynes (1936), turned on the need for a general real wage reduction effected mostly through currency devaluation, rather than through further money wage cuts. Dissenters were critical of currency devaluation; they stressed excessively generous unemployment relief, real wage 'overhang' and structural real wage distorttons. Tentative estimates of both aggregate real product wage and labour productivity changes demonstrate, prima facie, that at least one strand in the dissenting argument was defensible.


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