Employees Working Hours and Their Productivity

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. O. S. Verma
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Long Working Hours ◽  
The World ◽  
Hours Of Work ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Given

In India, a salaried person works 40 hours per week under the generally accepted norm of Nine to Five job schedule. In comparison, Indians log longer hours than the most others. Average weekly hours worked on the job as shown in the Pictorial (2014) indicate that Turkey topped the list at 49.1 hours followed by Mexico at 44.7 hours, South Korea at 43.3 hours, and Israel at 40.4 hours. At the other end of the spectrum, developed countries like Netherlands, Denmark and Norway reported the lowest hours at 28.9, 32.5 and 33.9 hours per week respectively. The question is whether long working hours means more progress, more productivity, and more development. The answer is "NO", not at all. ILO Report-2007 "Working Time around the world" reveals that lesser percentage of workforce in developed economics put in long hours of work as compared to developing countries. For example, in Norway, only 5.3 per cent of total work force work more that the normal 48 hours per week whereas in Peru and Korea about 50 per cent people work more than 48 hours per week. In USA, it is 18.1 percent work force more than 48 hours as against India where 40 per cent of total work force works more than 48 hours per week. This only indicates that it is not the longer hours of work that matters but it is the Decent work done in the given time framework.

scholarly journals Domestic Workplace: Critical Crossroads of Unorganized Labour and Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 46-57
Author(s):  
Debasis Poddar
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Workplace Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Technical Sense ◽  
Individual Use ◽  
The One ◽  
The Given ◽  
Private Individual

In the world of work at large, domestic workplace constitutes an altogether different space for hitherto labour jurisprudence and more so in the given age of liberalization-privatization-globalization worldwide. The way workforce used to get together at workplace and thereby unionized to form trade union in factory, mine, plantation and other establishments cannot take place anyway in case of domestic workplace. No wonder that the same attracts attention of relevant stakeholders on several counts, for example, labour on the one side and management on the other side. The author explores peculiarity of such workplace, issues involved therein along with means and methods to address major hurdles for management and labour studies to grapple with one among the least explored workplaces of the world. The forthcoming paragraphs are meant to grapple with relative (read comparative) vulnerability for members of the workforce inside a space otherwise meant for private individual use, albeit with the potential for abuse to gross detriment of the workforce and, at times, of the management as well. With recent focus of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the labour wing of the UN administration and one among the oldest institutions meant for global governance since the League of Nations regime, a unique trajectory of labour jurisprudence is on its wise to save stakeholders of the workplace from drudgery, if not vagary, of injustice with impunity. The hitherto private space is thereby increasingly converted to public space during its working hours in technical sense of the term and thereby subjected to the rule of law genre available elsewhere outside.

scholarly journals MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER AMONG WORKERS IN SMALL SCALE FORGING INDUSTRY

2013 ◽  
pp. 199-206
Author(s):  
JASPREET SINGH ◽  
GAUTAM KOCHER ◽  
HARVINDER LAL
Keyword(s):  
Material Handling ◽  
Musculoskeletal Disorder ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Long Working Hours ◽  
Manual Material Handling ◽  
Working Postures ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Scales ◽  
Task Variation

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are common health problem throughout the world and a major cause of disability in the workplace. This study was conducted among workers of a small scale forging Industries. The small scale forging units involve various kinds of high repetitive processes like Blanking, cutting, shearing, furnace loading, hammering, punching and trimming etc. the workers performing these type of activities are suffering from various MSDs. In this study I had surveyed 10 small scales forging industries and randomly selected 102 workers among these industries. The most common ergonomics problems were found in industry like wrong working positions of the workers and manual material handling. MSDs are found due to Inappropriate and poor working postures, lack of task variation, poor ergonomic design of work places, poor design of plant layout, long working hours, low salaries and awkward schedules are all areas where relatively simple intervention can Significantly reduce the rate of exposure to MSDs.

scholarly journals 6. Astronomical Telegrams (Telegrammes Astronomiques) (Committee of the Executive Committee)

1991 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
B. G. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Computing Methods ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Rapid Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Hours Of Work ◽  
Work Done

The year 1990, within the triennium covered by the present report, marked a number of significant anniversaries for the Central Bureau, including 70 years since its foundation at the Brussels Observatory, 25 years since the transfer of the Bureau’s operations to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (and 22 years of Dr. Marsden’s service as Director), and the issuance of the 5000th Circular. The amount of work done at the Bureau has increased enormously in this time, but especially within the past decade, as a result of the demands of modern astronomers and astrophysicists who are responding to the technological advances that have revolutionized observing and computing methods. At the same time methods of rapid communication have undergone a transformation that still continues. Appreciation is due for the support provided to the Bureau by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, but special gratitude must be expressed to Dr. Marsden and members of the staff and volunteers for their long hours of work and dedication to the needs of astronomers around the world for rapid access to information.

scholarly journals The Role of Benchmarking in Hotel Management Improvement

Economics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (3-5) ◽  
pp. 166-175
Author(s):  
Nino Ositashvili Nino Ositashvili ◽  
Nana Nadareishvili Nana Nadareishvili
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Change ◽  
Work Done

Hospitality is the most sensitive business in the world. Any small change in the country has an immediate impact on this industry. However, it should also be noted that this area also has the ability to recover quickly (coming out of various crises). The world practice of successful hotel operation has shown that the presence of benchmarking companies in developed countries has brought good results to various enterprises. Since the hotel industry in Georgia is not yet developed to a level that meets international standards, it would be a good idea to create the regional hotel associations, to invite experts who provide benchmarking with their consulting activities and services. This means that the high-ranking experts will be invited to select the most important indicators for the analysis. Creating a service standard framework will help the hotel industry to improve the quality of a service. Why is the knowledge of benchmarking tools important for hotels? Using benchmarking tools helps: 1. Investors to determine a range of investment in the construction of a hotel based on the tariffs and occupancy in the market. What will the hotel room cost based on the investment and how long will it take to get the investment back? 2. Revenue management increase revenue; the best example of this is the benchmarking operations provided by the hotel chain Ritz Carton. 3. Hotels to have more satisfied customers. This means if the hotel rating is higher than that of other hotels, more customers are attracted. 4. To increase the qualification of hotel staff and to increase their motivation. This will improve the quality of the work done by them. 5. To save money on experiments; By using the best experience and offering your own option, the hotel will raise its awareness and increase its popularity. Keywords: Benchmarking, Competition, Management, Hotel Services, Hospitality.

scholarly journals The analysis of a diabetes mellitus of type 1 desease and prevalence among children and teenagers of Tomsk Region

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 148-154
Author(s):  
Yu. G. Samoilova ◽  
A. V. Enert
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Federal Register ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Tomsk Region ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Given

The diabetes mellitus of 1 type (DM1) represents a huge problem all over the world. In spite of the fact that there is a plenty of the saved up knowledge on эпидемиологии and management of the given disease in the developed countries, there is a number of mistakes and the discrepancies supposed at creation of the Federal register of a diabetes that is connected with absence of completeness of scope of all regions. With the purpose of reception of the full information on prevalence and desease DM1 among children and teenagers, for duly maintenance sick DM1 necessary quantity of insulin and means of self-checking and as with the purpose of updating of data of the Federal register there was a necessity to estimate an epidemiological situation on DM1 among children and teenagers of Tomsk Region. The lead analysis has shown, that growth DM1 in all age groups and especially among children of younger age is marked.

scholarly journals Expanding Infrastructure And Environmental Protection – Indissoluble Contradiction Or Reasonable Symbiosis?

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Franz-Rudolf Herber
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Given ◽  
New Infrastructure

The expanding of infrastructure (roads/energy) is necessary as well in the developed countries as well as in the emerging countries: But the approach is different: In the developed countries the preservation of the given infrastructure is more important than new infrastructure. In the emerging countries necessary infrastructure is lacking and should be erected. Nevertheless, the management of such measures have to take the protection of environment into account. Those, who do not have any respect for nature, are behaving wrong. The belief, that such behaviour does not have any negative effects, is wrong. Nature does not endure any maltreatment and cannot endlessly recycle itself. But nature is a power that might be underestimated: If nature takes revenge on mankind, the consequences are drought, tornados and the drop of the sea level. Of course, if ones does have a religion, the answer has to be that the revenge of God will be severe, the Bible does call it apocalypsis or the end the world.

Convergence Analysis of Households' Consumption Expenditure

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Ramesh Chandra Das ◽  
Amaresh Das ◽  
Frank Martin
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Consumption Expenditure ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Public Investments ◽  
The World ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Given

Households' consumption expenditure becomes an important determinant of GDP of a country, particularly when the economy is struck by depression with low levels of private and public investments. So maintaining growth of this head of expenditure over time becomes the crucial agenda of the policy makers all over the world. The present chapter tries to analyze whether the developing countries' levels of households' consumption expenditure are converging to the ones in the developed countries during 1980-2013 in the sample of 40 countries. The study reveals that there is no significant absolute ß and s convergence among either in the cross section or in pooling of the data during the given period. But population growth factor is making the countries converge significantly in conditional sense. By separating the entire data we observe that, for the entire period, the developed countries are significantly converging in absolute sense while the developing countries are not, although there are mixed results in s convergence.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES TO LABOUR LAW

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-56
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Däubler
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Long Working Hours ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Counter Measures ◽  
The Third ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Right

The article deals with three main challenges to labour law referring especially to the German experience. The world-wide market induced enterprises to relocate their production and to reduce labour costs at home. In Germany, a quite indirect way of exercising pressure on the workers was developed; counter-measures were rare and did not really change the situation. TTIP and CETA will worsen the situation because national sovereignty in social and environmental questions will fade away. The second challenge comes from inequality existing among workers as well as in society as a whole. There is a scission between very wealthy people on one side and people becoming poorer and poorer on the other side. Labour law has not yet developed the instruments to realize more equality among workers but some ideas are discussed. The third challenge is the digitalisation of many activities; they are no more bound to certain places or certain times of the day. The “freedom” to work at any moment and at any place entails very long working hours, work at night and work on Sundays. Legal rules on working time lose more and more there importance. A solution can be the right of workers´ representatives to discuss the tasks given to individual workers, but other means are examined in the article, too. The internet makes crowdworking possible – a new form of work which is currently not covered by labour law.

EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP: ASPECTS AND APPROACHES

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
JAVED ALAM SHEIKH
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
World Population ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Map ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status

Almost 50 per cent of the world population is constituted by the women and they have been making substantial contribution to socio-economic development. But, unfortunately their tremendous contribution remains unrecognized and unnoticed in most of the developing and least developed countries causing the problem of poverty among them. Empowering women has become the key element in the development of an economy. With women moving forward, the family moves, the village moves and the nation moves. Hence, improving the status of women by way of their economic empowerment is highly called for. Entrepreneurship is a key tool for the economic empowerment of women around the world for alleviating poverty. Entrepreneurship is now widely recognized as a tool of economic development in India also. In this paper I have tried to discuss the reasons and role of Women Entrepreneurship with the help of Push and Pull factors. In the last I have also discussed the problems and the road map of Women Entrepreneurs development in India.

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