Role of Depression in Worker Productivity: Exploring Age, Ethnicity, and Length of Time in the Field

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Durr ◽  
Patrick Sherry
Keyword(s):  
Worker Productivity

Changing Role of Agriculture in Income and Employment, and Trends of Agricultural Worker Productivity in Indian States

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-189
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Worker Productivity ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Agricultural Worker ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Changing Role

The productivity of land has been often discussed and deliberated by the academia and policymakers to understand agriculture, however, very few studies have focused on the agriculture worker productivity to analyze this sector. This study concentrates on the productivity of agricultural workers from across the states taking two-time points into consideration. The agriculture worker productivity needs to be dealt with seriously and on a time series basis so that the marginal productivity of worker can be ascertained but also the dependency of worker on agriculture gets revealed. There is still disguised unemployment in all the states and high level of labour migration, yet most of the states showed the dependency has gone down. Although a state like Madhya Pradesh is doing very well in terms of income earned but that is at the cost of increased worker power in agriculture as a result of which, the productivity of worker has gone down. States like Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura, though small in size showed remarkable growth in productivity and all these states showed a positive trend in terms of worker shifting away from agriculture. The traditional states which gained the most from Green Revolution of the sixties are performing decently well, but they need to have the next major policy push so that they move to the next orbit of growth.

Getting Their Hands Dirty: How Female Managers Motivate Female Worker Productivity Through Subordinate Scut Work

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aruna Ranganathan ◽  
Ranjitha Shivaram
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Female Worker ◽  
Worker Productivity ◽  
Women In Management ◽  
Female Managers ◽  
Garment Factory ◽  
Worker Performance ◽  
Routine Tasks ◽  
Individual Productivity

Using ethnographic, personnel, and experimental data from an Indian garment factory, this paper investigates whether and how manager gender affects female worker productivity. We find that female managers motivate greater female worker productivity than male managers by engaging in subordinate scut work, the practice of voluntarily getting one’s hands dirty to perform subordinates’ routine tasks, which increases subordinates’ engagement with their work. Our qualitative data help to generate hypotheses that we explore using personnel data on individual productivity and test causally using a laboratory-in-the-field experiment in which we randomly assign workers to supervisors and experimentally manipulate supervisors’ ability to perform subordinate scut work. This paper contributes to the literature on motivating worker productivity by drawing attention to the important role of manager gender and by studying a less-researched organization context—that of a female-dominated workplace. The paper also contributes to the literature on women in management by investigating their impact on worker performance, measured objectively, and uncovering subordinate scut work as a specific managerial practice that female managers can use to foster engagement with work and improve female worker productivity. This paper was accepted by Greta Hsu, organizations.

The Role of Health Risk Factors and Disease on Worker Productivity

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 863-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne N. Burton ◽  
Daniel J. Conti ◽  
Chin-Yu Chen ◽  
Alyssa B. Schultz ◽  
Dee W. Edington
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Worker Productivity ◽  
Health Risk Factors

The Role of Unions in Hospital Cost Inflation

ILR Review ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank A. Sloan ◽  
Killard W. Adamache
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Hospital Cost ◽  
Hospital Costs ◽  
Hospital Workers ◽  
Worker Productivity ◽  
Worker Compensation ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Impact

This study examines the impact of unions on worker compensation and total costs in hospitals, both in specific departments and in the hospital as a whole. An analysis of data for 367 hospitals for the years 1974 and 1977 shows that unions raised the mean compensation of hospital workers by 8.8 percent without producing offsetting increases in worker productivity. Thus, unions do increase hospital costs, although far less than health insurance and other factors do.

scholarly journals Towards Data Justice Unionism? A Labour Perspective on AI Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 267-284
Author(s):  
Lina Dencik
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Worker Productivity ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Data Infrastructures

The dual occurrences of constant data collection and use of artificial and autonomous systems in the workplace are having a profound impact on workers’ lives. Workers are subjected to constant surveillance that not only monitor worker productivity but factors unrelated to work. At the same time, machine learning systems are using these data to transform how work is being allocated, assessed and completed and as a result, worker lives and value in the workplace and beyond. Yet governance frameworks for AI have thus far been advanced with a noticeable absence of worker voice, unions, and labour perspectives. In this chapter I will discuss how concerns about data and data infrastructures need to be situated as part of a workers’ rights agenda, the role of the labour movement in advancing alternative governance frameworks, and the potential for data justice unionism.

Face-to-Face Communication in Organizations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Battiston ◽  
Jordi Blanes i Vidal ◽  
Tom Kirchmaier
Keyword(s):  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Worker Productivity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Field Evidence ◽  
Communication In Organizations ◽  
Communication Decisions ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Career Incentives ◽  
Mutual Communication

Abstract Communication is integral to organizations and yet field evidence on the relation between communication and worker productivity remains scarce. We argue that a core role of communication is to transmit information that helps co-workers do their job better. We build a simple model in which workers choose the amount of communication by trading off this benefit against the time cost incurred by the sender, and use it to derive a set of empirical predictions. We then exploit a natural experiment in an organization where problems arrive and must be sequentially dealt with by two workers. For exogenous reasons, the first worker can sometimes communicate face-to-face with their colleague. Consistently with the predictions of our model, we find that: (1) the second worker works faster (at the cost of the first worker having less time to deal with incoming problems) when face-to-face communication is possible, (2) this effect is stronger when the second worker is busier and for homogenous and closely located teams, and (3) the (career) incentives of workers determine how much they communicate with their colleagues. We also find that workers partially internalise social outcomes in their communication decisions. Our findings illustrate how workers in teams adjust the amount of mutual communication to its costs and benefits.

scholarly journals The role of triptans in the management of migraine

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Meiyanti Meiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Serotonin Receptor ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Acute Attack ◽  
Preventive Therapy ◽  
Worker Productivity ◽  
Artery Disease ◽  
Serotonin Receptor Agonists ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

Migraine is one of the most prevalent disorders seen in clinical practice today and also a major cause of disability in the workplace. The prevalence of migraine is highest during the years of peak productivity, ie, between the ages of 25 and 55 years. The triptans are a group of selective 5-hydroxtriptamine (HT)1 serotonin receptor agonists that activate the 5-HT1B/1D receptor and possibly also the 5-HT1A dan 5-HT1F receptors. To date 7 subclasses of serotonin receptors have been identified, namely subclasses 5-HT1 to 5-HT7. Triptan causes cranial vasoconstriction, inhibits peripheral trigeminal activity and the trigeminal afferents. With its triple action, triptans can control acute attacks of migraine. Triptan is contraindicated in patients with previous ischemic or coronary artery disease, cerebral or peripheral vascular disease and other cardiovascular disorders. Triptans should be given immediately after an acute attack of migraine. The triptans are useful in the management of an acute migraine, but are not indicated for preventive therapy of migraine. Several new advances in migraine management have been made in regard to the recognition of the disease, the pathogenesis of migraine, and the phenomenon of central sensitization. More treatment options become available to patients and prescribers, the impact of such therapy on worker productivity will become more important in determining the value of such interventions.

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