...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 The results indicate that employer obligations, employee obligations and state of the psychological contract were positively related to employee discretionary behaviours. In addition, employee engagement was found to be a partial mediator between employee obligations...

... (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...

... productivity with a reasonable level of accuracy. Furthermore, they show that the workers’ productivity decreases as the PMV index moves away from the optimum range for all the observed tasks. Construction industry Productivity Employees Environment There is no standard way or method...

... workforce, augmenting it by temporary workers during busy periods; and to reduce workdays and pay during slow periods. Looks at novel ways in which some businesses are addressing the seasonal manpower problem. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Annualized hours Demand management Employees Planning...

...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. One great advantage is that gainsharing schemes involved most of the stakeholders of the organization ‐ the managers, the employees and the shareholders ‐ in a common...

... does need to recognize and implement the changes that are necessary to ensure that organizations and individuals get the support they need to cope with such change. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Flexibility Organizational change Responsibility Teamwork Technology Employees There is nothing...

... to meet the habit and work preferences of individual employees. The ability to speed up the creation of official documents that agencies are expected to produce. The ability to harness the benefits of organic organizational structures through the use of groupware, which facilitates collaboration...

... as the farmer was about to prove his point, the donkey went and ruined the experiment. With the usual lack of concern and interest most underlings give to the good ideas of their betters, the donkey lay down and died. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Employees Management techniques Motivation An old...

...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...

... committee. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Co‐operation Employees Industrial engineering Management Without hesitation many managers will answer that they have done everything possible to achieve that goal. They will point to their industrial engineering department with its new and improved...

..., 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. The pervasiveness of job loss is reflected...

... of the study, the average machine utilizations of all lines were:Washing machines: 64 per cent; Hydro extractors: 63 per cent; Tumble‐driers: 42 per cent. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Incentives Managers Employees The client was a large laundry or, to give it its proper name, linen service...