...Ghulam Abbas Purpose This study aims to achieve sustainable market share and continuous growth; employee sustainable performance (ESP) is crucial. Hence, the purpose of this study is to serve a deeper understanding of compensation (time-rate compensation, performance-based compensation and fixed...

...Istiqomah Nur Latifah; Agus Achmad Suhendra; Ilma Mufidah Purpose This study aimed to discover the factors affecting employee performance by testing the relationship of change management, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and leadership style on employee performance in Indonesian sharia...

...Pia Lappalainen; Minna Saunila; Juhani Ukko; Tero Rantala; Hannu Rantanen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the connection between performance management and employee engagement. More specifically, the authors address shortcomings in prior literature where employee performance has...

...Sriji Edakkat Subhakaran; Lata Dyaram Purpose Despite the increasing prominence of employee voice in organizational innovation and productivity, employees continue to struggle to influence matters that affect them at work. The purpose of this paper is to model work group context and manager...

...Francis Kasekende © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediation effect of employee engagement on the relationship between employer obligations, employee obligations and state...

... (PSS) and psychological contract breach attitudes. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed model was tested using a sample of a company’s 104 employees and through partial least squares analysis. Findings – A total of 23 percent of the variance in job performance was explained...

... (1994) argue that most mental tasks are unaffected by heat within physical limits of tolerance and that, over short periods, motivated workers can sustain their productivity even under adverse environmental conditions. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Construction industry Productivity Employees...

..., and especially in the UK, but is almost unknown in the US. Under AH, employees are contracted to work for a certain number of hours (say, 1,800 hours) per year (or a shorter duration) for a certain sum of money. Employees can be asked to put in more hours during busy periods (and also to put in fewer hours...

...Michael Loh Re‐engineering at Work 2nd edition . Gower , £14.95 BPR Organisational behaviour Employees Business process re‐engineering has been hailed as the answer to many of the challenges faced by businesses in the late 1990s, yet many organisations seem to have...

...Gary Tryon; Brian H. Kleiner According to the American Institute of Criminology and Research, employee theft is responsible for over $50 billion worth of losses for both small and large businesses in the USA. Of this “shrinkage”, approximately 60 per cent is due to employee theft. Explains what...

...John Muir Redundancy is almost always a painful time ‐ for organizations and for those individuals made redundant. The traditional way of selecting employees was a simple last in ‐ first out basis. Although this is simple, and in many ways, fair, it can lead to a distorted age/skills profile...

... should be placed. There are many facets of what may constitute a core competence. There are some indications that the competence approach will eventually evolve into a distributed competence theory, with an emphasis on innovation, flexibility, and developing employees into a reservoir of skills...

... to be open and transparent to all those stakeholders. Includes the outline of a simple scheme which demonstrates the basic concepts. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Communications Employees Motivation Objectives Performance Skills The purpose of gainsharing schemes is to motivate employees to high...

... Teamwork Technology Employees There is nothing new about employing dispersed, flexible workers. In pre‐industrial working life there was little choice but to work freelance and on short‐term contracts. The accounts of the weavers, lace‐makers, tinkers and casual labourers easily translate to our...

...Desmond Daly; Brian H. Kleiner The first step in dealing with a problem employee for a supervisor is to ask the question “Is there really a problem employee or does the problem lie with me?” Examples of this can include a supervisor who is intimidated by an employee because that person is more...

... Technological forecasting Employees Understand the immediate and the potential long‐run productivity implications of information technology. Continue development of management thinking and managers′ ability to apply new concepts and approaches to their daily practices. Review and modify...

... taken the trouble to feed theirs and to keep them in good condition might well be the ones who win the day! © MCB UP Limited 1995 Employees Management techniques Motivation An old story tells that a farmer of mean repute once tried to train his donkey to live without eating...

... committee. Co‐operation Employees Industrial engineering Management Why not use their skills in an endeavour to raise the level of management/labour relations to the highest degree possible? They are not supermen who can change things with a wave of a wand but, in conjunction...

..., the positive tax consequences for the employee; the employer′s response to labour market competition; or, even, that the inclusion of this benefit reflects the historical response of some organizations and unions to wage controls during the Second World War. Availability risks have increased due to a slow...

... the variable costs or attracting more customers to increase annual turnover. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Incentives Managers Employees The client was a large laundry or, to give it its proper name, linen service. It catered mainly for hospitals and hotels and the average monthly load handled...