Chapter 6: Labour input and productivity in Dutch manufacturing

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Input

Conditions for Benchmarking Implementation and its Use in Enterprises in North-Eastern Poland

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Joanna Dynowska ◽  
Małgorzata Cygańska
Keyword(s):  
North Eastern ◽  
Labour Input ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Barriers To Implementation ◽  
Large Enterprises

Determining the scope and extent of the use of benchmarking in the surveyed enterprises from the province of Warmia and Mazury was the main goal of this paper. The surveys conducted showed that benchmarking is not used on a wide scale in Poland. This method was applied by only 17% of the enterprises surveyed. Those were mainly large enterprises in which the value of assets exceeds EUR 5 million. The high costs to the enterprises and labour input required for implementation, as well as maintaining the method in the enterprise were the main barriers to implementation of the method in enterprises. 

Labour Input Logic of Street-Level Bureaucrats: Evidence from Chinese Market Supervision Commission

2021 ◽  
pp. 147892992110215
Author(s):  
Chunna Li ◽  
Jun Yang
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
Frontline Staff ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Labour Input ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats

The theory of street-level bureaucracy and its relevant data have proven the expected duties of the frontline staff of local government may be excessive but their time spent working remains quite low. Using data from participatory observations of street-level officials in a Chinese city, this study reveals the logic of this labour input paradox. Organizational climate incentive and promotional incentive jointly influence the time allocation of street-level bureaucrats. The organizational climate incentive reflects the weak incentive characteristic of the maintenance function of labour; promotional incentives have a strong impact on motivation, which is characteristic of the promotional function of labour. These findings reveal the costs of the New Public Management movement in an organization lacking an effective promotion mechanism and a positive organizational climate incentive. This is a snapshot of the dilemma faced by China’s public organization reforms, but it is also a problem other country must solve.

Labour Drivers in the Agricultural Sector of the European Union

2022 ◽  
pp. 134-154
Author(s):  
Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Total Output ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labour Input

The social role of the farms is, especially, relevant in the rural areas where the socioeconomic problems are, often, more visible. In this perspective, this study aims to investigate the interrelationships of the labour input with other variables inside the farms and assess how the sector may create more employment in a sustainable way. For that, the labour input was, first, correlated with other farm variables and after analysed through factor analysis approaches and cross-section econometric methodologies, considering as basis the Cobb-Douglas and Verdoorn-Kaldor models. The main findings highlight relevant insights to improve the social dimension of the European Union farms. The labour input growth rate is positively influenced by the total output growth rates and negatively impacted by the total productivity growth. The effects from the investment and from the subsidies are residual or not significant.

A note on the Soviet inter‐industry labour input balance

1963 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Zauberman
Keyword(s):  
Labour Input

scholarly journals Prospects for the use of extraordinary brick bond types

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 08004
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Pugach ◽  
Alina Iumasheva
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Material Consumption ◽  
Bond Type ◽  
Labour Input ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Almost All

The aim of this paper is to prove the applicability of extraordinary brick bond types in the same amount as traditional. Traditional brick bond type is a term describing the most widely used brick bonds which are almost all publications, manuals and textbooks in masonry craft are devoted to. And the most typical representatives reflecting the main trends in the development of the entire totality brick bond systems were selected as extraordinary ones. In total 16 systems were selected. The research methods used are obtaining the values of the basic constructional, technological and economic characteristics of the masonry (such as material consumption, labour input, compressive strength, maximum wall height, financial expenses) and following data analysis. The result obtained in the study confirmed that there is an equal possibility of using extraordinary bond systems as traditional ones because the value of basic characteristics in complex are more rational and more profitable compared with traditional. The research has practical importance because acquired information allows architects and engineers to choose the most optimal brick bond type to increase the efficiency of masonry.

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