Productivity Article Reviews Samples For Students

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Application
I learned from reading this article that PRP (performance related pay) has a positive effect on productivity, particularly where individual performance can be evaluate and rewarded. This does support my attempt to answer my questions on the affects of pay for performance on motivation and productivity. The article provided further insights into how PRP motivates the workforce in both positive and negative ways. PRP is most effective in employment situations where it serves as an immediate financial reward to top performers. In these situations, it improves the company’s productivity in two ways; it increases the performance of ...

1. What is the author’s central argument (thesis)?
In "Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity," Sara Robinson effectively argues that human beings need to go back to the 40 hour work week, as opposed to the 55-60 hour weeks most Americans are working today. She argues that limiting workers' productivity to 40 hours a week guarantees more productive hours on the whole, as people get burned out and more exhausted as the hours go on past that magic number.
2. What evidence is presented to support the central ...

Abstract

Since the inception of the modern technologies, the world of business has really evolved. The hi-tech transport and communication facilities have made it possible for countries to import and export goods and services. This has led to the emergence of global and regional business powers. UK has a stake in international business, as shown in the essay below.

UK in International Business

1. UK Government role in international trades & international investment.

Sine time immemorial, the UK has been a key player in businesses around the world. This dates back to the Trans-Saharan trade, the triangular trade and the slave trade. During all these periods, ...

American Public University

Organization is a group of people who come together to achieve a set of goals. Each organization develops a structure to function to move towards the set goals for the organization. How the organization forms a structure determines flexibility and agility of the organization. In the volatile business world nowadays, any organization requires developing its agility and flexibility to position the organization against the volatility in the markets. The main factors are the people who feel belonging to the organization because they would like to take responsibility to reach the set goals.
The individuals in the organization would like ...

Scientific management or Taylorism is one of the theories of management that focuses the analysis, review, and synthesis of workflows to enhance efficiency and productivity. Fredrick Taylor emphasized productivity and efficiency by utilizing scientific principles rather than values and beliefs of employers and employees. Scientific management received a considerable amount of criticism from many theorists and management experts primarily due to the consideration of efficiency and productivity. Taylor focused productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency of workflows and functions rather than the wellbeing of workers and employees. This theoretical framework stressed on the perspective of organizational objectives and they do not ...

In his August 2016 article for the Guardian, entitled “How getting more sleep could boost your salary”, Imran Rahman-Jones discusses the findings of a 2015 study on, as the title suggests, the effects of sleep on the ability of people to earn more money (Rahman-Jones, 2016). In the article, which us is clearly intended to health conscious, active workers, Rahman-Jones writes that people who get live in regions that get darker earlier in the day are more likely to earn more than those who live in regions were daylight last longer. According to Rahman-Jones, the reason for this is ...

American Public University

In this paper, I will analyze the advantages of creating a business in the form of corporation and cost structures of companies. Companies develop some strategies to have the possible least cost of production and gain an advantage in competition. Preference for forming an organization is the first step. Corporation legal structure presents some advantages to companies. Also, companies need to have full knowledge of costs to be able to manage costs to maximize their profits. Eventually, this paper will give some insights about these subjects.
Corporation is a legal form of building an organization for a company. Operating ...

Path – goal theory is a leadership theory that specifies leadership style whose main aim is to achieve set goals through enhancing working environment for employees. It seeks to motivate, satisfy and empower employees so as to increase their productivity in the firm. Leader – member exchange theory is a leadership theory that focuses on the relationship between managers and their employees. It suggests that the relationships between managers and their employees are classified into three stages. These are role taking, role making, and routinization. Transformational leadership is a type of leadership style whereby managers work with their subordinates to come ...

Incentives in the Workplace: Is Money the Key?

INTRODUCTION
While it is true that money matters in terms of financial gain and the gloriously pursuit to excel in accrual of revenues in business, research study and professional observational critiques have shown that monetary incentives in the workplace are not the key factor which motivates people in the workplace setting. The main article of referential focus, entitled ‘Social Incentives in the Workplace’ by economist research analysts Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, and Imran Rasul of the London School of Economics conducted a study which measures worker productivity as associated with rewards. Bandiera, Barankay, and Rasul (2010) discovered some startling ...

Hard work is essential to the success of an individual. In fact, lack thereof compromises the possibilities of one’s accomplishments as it leads to mediocre performance or complete failure. In the article, What is Inspiration, David Brooks seeks to convey the essence of making an effort to achieve what one wants through hard work. He makes reference to multiple authors to enforce the credibility of his arguments. In a large section of the article, he integrates inspiration with hard work and explains how these aspects are interdependent. Specifically, a lot of dedication on the completion of a task ...

A. Pricing for International Markets 5

B. International Marketing Channels 6
C. Products and Services for Customers 8
D. Cultural Dynamics in Assessing Global Markets 10
4.0 Summary and Opinions of Influential Cultural Factors 11
5.0 Conclusion 13 Work Sited 15

Highlighted Points

The purposes of practicing and aiming for international marketing are to understand how and why:
- cultural diversity has been known to influence international marketing in pricing and contractual agreements
- analyzing the roots of culture to integrate it into a global marketing plan enhances coherent business strategies for successful worldwide marketing
- the references listed at the ...

In the world of business, telecommuting or working from home has always been a popular choice for employees who find it convenient and often more productive than sitting in a cubicle all day along. Indeed, studies have shown that the average productivity of employees increases by around 15 percent when they are working from home as compared to when they work from the office. However, not everyone seems to be happy with this state of affairs the article being reviewed for this paper shows. The article, which is titled Why Won't Yahoo! Let Employees Work From Home? Is about a leaked memo ...

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This is an interview between Miller and Stephen Mosher about the impacts of population growth in a given country. Miller asks a question while Mosher answers the questions asked. In the first question, Miller is asking Mosher the reason why the imminent population have not materialised and where the mistakes could have come from. However, Mosher says that the consequences of overpopulation in some instances from Malthus and Paul Ehrlich’s are deliberately exaggerated in attempt to frighten individuals into having not more than one or two children.
The second question Miller asked was if the projections about ...

Article review

Sexual harassment is one of unethical practices that have been ignored for a long time. Management has however realized that this behavior is affecting the performance of activities in the work place in various ways. The article ‘organizational justice, sexual harassment’ by N. Cole has analyzed the ethical issue in detail. According to the article, workplace romance is an issue that has existed for a long period in history (Cole, 2009). However, this activity has always been done secretively. Recent studies have shown that work place romances are no longer secretive. They are done in public working environment going to an ...

Business Article Review

Article Summary
The article is about the history of the emotional intelligence as a topic of study and the description of how it is being measured and defined. The article also refers to various studies relating emotional intelligence to essential work-related results such as organizational productivity and individual performance. People especially psychologists started to write on emotional intelligence, and they only concentrate on cognitive views. However, it is the cumulative or global scope of a person to think rationally, to act diligently and deal appropriately with his or her environment.
Emotional intelligence refers to a social intelligence type that entails ...

For rural dwellers, urban environment has always presented unique challenges and fascinations. This is primarily because of the reason that urban life offers more opportunities to its residents, both in terms of finances as well as chances to growth. There was a time when the rural people use to move, putting it more technically migrated, to urban areas in search of better job opportunities, thus getting access to higher wages. There is a concept of wage premium that is linked with big metropolitan cities. It is precisely this concept working behind the notion that the earnings of workers tend to be ...

Introduction

It’s been over two decades that the agenda of the deregulation was adopted across nations, yet till this day regulation of the telecommunications sector continues to pose challenges. Only a few countries has been able to work out viable models of regulation of this sector while many countries still have public owned telecommunication systems (Grote, 2006). What remains a challenge in bringing about effective competition is the cost and economies of scale of incumbent networks. Hence empirical evidence shows no clear trends of changes in incentives vis-à-vis changes in the regulations on the sector.
The US telecommunication sector ...

The Physician assistants’ practice was introduced in the United States of America during the late 1960s. The introduction of Physician assistants was to address the shortage of doctors (Hooker, Roderick and Everette, 20) Physician assistants have provided remarkable support to the physicians alongside the nurses in the USA. Their contribution especially in the primary healthcare can, therefore, not be underestimated. The increase in the physician assistants’ number over the years has been due to the global shortage of primary care doctors. The employment of the physician assistants has been a reasonable strategy in the primary healthcare provision in diverse populations ( ...

Analysis for logistics and distribution

Management
Introduction:
Automatic handling systems are designed in order to facilitate the works and human beings. They are designed using smart technologies which consists are several microprocessors that can respond as per the human instructions and can produce required outcomes. They are designed so as to facilitate the process of development and also to ensure that the construction is carried out smoothly at a low cost ensuring accuracy of the results and faster productivity. However, it has been seen that the automatic systems have failed to meet the desired potential.

The prime reasons for the failure of automatic ...

Introduction

Human resource management is the practice of allocating resources appropriately to achieve the firm’s objectives. Among its elements is taking care of the human resource by ensuring the employees are well represented and taken care of in order to yield positive returns in driving the firm towards its goal.

Article 1: Employee Engagement

Dr. Joe Folkman the president of Zenger Folkman says that developing the strength of leadership is important to helping employees abandon the prison mentality and enjoy happy and productive work (HRM Guide, 2012). According to him, making the average worker happy will increase their commitment. However, what makes people ...

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Review of the article “Developmental Patterns in Small and Large Groups” by Susan Wheelan and Robert McKeage (1993)
The group behavior is has been always attracting attention of the scholars. Comparison of the groups of different sizes play an important role, as the results have wide real-world implication helping managers organize the groups in the most efficient way. As Wheelan and McKeage demonstrate in the literature review section, small and large groups had been compared by many criteria, from cohesion to productivity, with results often being contradictory. However, the previous studies had mostly concentrated ...

According to the authors, there are three main considerations that business units ought to be privy to concerning the ecology. In a sense, businesses must be fully incorporated into the basics of the ecology and must tailor their activities in tandem with the ecology. In this strain, the ecology is described as facilitative rather than appreciative. However, the main rider is the organization in question ought to recognise the trajectory and state of affairs in the ecology and so tailor its programs, even the most mundane in consonance with the strategy.
The three limbs of strategy are productivity, robustness ...

Global warming is the rise in the atmospheric temperature. This increase in temperature is caused by the release of greenhouse gases to the environment. This article cites global warming as the real cause of climate change. Release of greenhouse gases is vast in the more industrialized countries. Burning of fossils has also contributed greatly to the increase of global warming. However, global warming has affected many parts of the world differently. Some parts have mild effects while others have severe effects.
An increase in the atmospheric temperature has increased agricultural productivity. Increased rainfall and warmth in the atmosphere ...

Introduction

Apprentices and trainees currently represent 25 per cent of the 1.7 million students enrolled in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system and 3.8 percent of the entire workers (NCVER, 2010). More than 13 per cent of the entire Australian workforce comprises of 1.2 million workers in the technical and trade sector (Expert Panel, 2011: 8). Therefore, the quality and effectiveness of the Australian Apprenticeships systems will impact on the productivity of the wider Australian economy. For decades, Australians have completed apprenticeships and traineeships that have provided pathways into satisfying and rewarding careers in trade or vocation, or into ...

Human beings are sometimes driven by the desire to exploit others for their personal gains. The aspect particularly takes place in a capitalistic society that thrives on more work and money without considering the welfare of the employees. Workers begin to develop occupational stress in three dimensions: self, work, and life situations. They find it difficult to balance their work and personal life resulting in stress or fatigue. Jordan Ferris in the article titled “Unsafe staffing events and their effect on nursing fatigue and stress levels” explores occupational stress and the implications it has on the employees.
Jordan’s ...

Article Review; Diversity in the Work Place

Introduction
Technological advancement especially in communication education and transportation has made it possible for people from different parts of the globe to work under one office. This makes the work place to have very distinct groups of people in terms of culture, talents, skills and specialization. For progress to be witnessed in the work place all of this distinct group need to know the goal of the organization set their personal and group objectives and work cooperatively to achieve the goal. Working together in a diverse group is not always easy mostly because what is best for one person ...

Article Analysis: World Poverty

Introduction
In 2015, the United Nations is working with the World Bank’s ambitious plan to end extreme global poverty by the year 2030. This means that for the first time, every person in the world would afford common items and food to make their life easier. Many experts would debate on the main cause of poverty as it could be the changing trends in a certain country’s economy. Other factors would also include the lack of education, overpopulation, the presence of epidemic diseases like AIDS and malaria and even environmental problems like drought. Extreme weather can cause ...

Key learning from society’s efforts to create meaningful environmental shifts

One major lesson from society’s efforts is the need to be able to adapt to black swans. Black swans, as Taleb calls them, are big events that are both unanticipated and highly consequential. Typically, nobody sees them coming, but when they arrive, they immensely shape our world. Events such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks changed the way the world views security issues and terrorism. Furthermore, the internet and Google have revolutionized the way we communicate and obtain information in ways never imagined before. The two have opened up new opportunities and jobs that nobody ever predicted. On the ...

Peter S. McInnis’s “Teamwork for Harmony: Labour-Management Production Committees and the Postwar Settlement in Canada” unearths major steps undertaken by the leadership of Canada to bring the much needed order in the labour industries as well as in the settlement of the Canadians after the second world war. Peter sheds enough light into how, what would later turn into one of the most successful and long-lived cooperative experiments in the industrial relations of Canada came to be. He elaborates how the then Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King orchestrated the formation of the formal Labour-Management Production ...

The article “Corporate Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Management” (2011) provides in-depth analysis of the corporate entrepreneurship and its capacity to renew and innovate. The article covers some theoretical issues of entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship, and the role of human resource management. The case of Montalt-Valencia Company is used to analyze how the theoretical notions are applied in practice.
The topic of entrepreneurship has been given a lot of attention in the academic literature. Joseph Schumpeter and many other economists focused on the analysis of an entrepreneur in the role of a discoverer or exploiter of opportunities. Lee, Periz-Ortis and ...

1. Do you think Randy has sufficiently categorized his salespeople for motivational purposes? Why or why not? Is it practicable to provide non-financial incentives to motivate salespeople in each of the four career stage groups?

Categorization of salespeople always involves a trade-off between over-generalization and the practical applicability of these categories for HR strategy development. It is always possible to find additional sub-categories that reflect more precisely the peculiarities of the sales force of a firm or that capture individual needs of the employees. Thus, introducing a separate category for working mothers could help to address the needs of this group in a better way. However, extensive categorization would increase complexity of HR policies and would make it hard to develop and execute an HR strategy in an effective and cost-efficient way. Therefore, the decision of Randy Stuart ...

Introduction

People engage themselves into employment in order to get compensation in monetary terms, and other benefits that come along with employment. Every organization aims at employing the most qualified employees creating a stiff competition in the corporate world. In addition, any employee would like to achieve higher levels of qualification in their careers in order to attract the attention of best paying companies. Human resource management is a global recognized part necessary in running of any organization. Compensation forms one of the most essential human resource tools used by companies in an effort to manage their employees. Compensation system of an ...

Introduction

The City government of Denver Colorado is one of the County governments which have the interest of providing quality services to its subjects. Having a population of over half a million people, the county government of Denver in an effort to improve the quality of its services to its people, migrated to a system management system that is administered by the ALFRESCO Company. The government is responsible for 140 schools, the Denver Airport, libraries, fire stations and many other public amenities. The quality of management and service delivery was poor until mayor John Hickenlooper spearheaded for changes in the IT system within ...

Article Review

The key message of the article is that the continued use of internet for social purposes during work hours has negative effects on people’s concentration at workplaces. According to the author, though internet has become an essential tool for carrying out research and other functions such as emailing, in most cases internet slows peoples’ ability to work optimally because workers who have access to internet end up visiting social sites and performing personal tasks. Because of technology and internet, most people have lost their desire for information and have acquired considerable desire for social connection.
Further, the ...

Human Resource Management

This article, written by Lisa Rein and William Branigin from the Washington Post, discusses a potentially severe lack of management in the supervision of work-from-home employees whose job is to review patent applications. The individual who broke the story let the Post know that the office “tolerates” employee abuses, later citing that the department often turned their heads in the face of these time and attendance issues when productivity was high. The culture in this office is a very relaxed one, mostly because managers and supervisors very rarely interact with their employees. This inevitably leads to a relaxed feeling of time and ...

Article Review

Article Review

Introduction

The article, “Managing the Transition to a Free Labor Society: American Interpretations of the British West Indies during the Civil War and Reconstruction” by Nichola Clayton is devoted to the analysis of written sources regarding the slavery abolition during the Civil War in America and American isles. The main idea of the article is shown in the summary: American reaction to the abolition, shift in views of the white population and the political parties of the USA, an attitude of the Republicans to the black population freedom and black farmers. Firstly, the author describes the Morant Bay rebellion ...

This paper explores the relationship between employment density in urban centers and the rates of invention of economically related externalities. This is done through a review of the article “Urban density and the Rate of Invention” by Carlino et al (2007). The review will begin with a brief discussion of the main issues that this article addresses. This methodology and the data utilized in the study will then be discussed. This section will then be followed by a summary of the main findings and conclusions made by the authors of the study. The review will then look at some of the other ...

Article Review

Summary of modern organization theory
Modern organization theories are based on the fact that any organization is adaptive and dynamic to changes in the working environment. Customer sentiment, competition, technology, market diversity are some of the issues that coarse change in any organization. These modern theories are adaptive, multi-motivated, multi-disciplinary, dynamic, and descriptive, among other characteristics (FAO Corporate Document Repository 2013). Modern theories include systems approach theory, contingency or situational approach, and socio-technical approach theory.

Systems approach theory

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby among others founded the theory from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. it view an organization ...

A work environment is a social environment where human nature is at play just as it is in family life and relationships. This is the resounding message of “7 Ways to Enhance Workplace Relationships, Motivation and Productivity” by Jonathan D. Port. The author acknowledges that advice is often broken down into numbered lists in order to bound and make tangible pieces of advice. He has broken ways 7 things that managers and supervisors can focus on which will increase workforce relationships and create an environment of motivated workers where productivity is maximized.
Rather than presenting his seven points as ...

Communication and Technology – A Response Paper

Summary
Summarizing the three articles centers around the primary focus on "Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore Kaczynski making this one person's view of how technology in the modern world is restrictive on freedom the framework of all three articles authors' views. The claims of Kaczynski as well as Illich author of Tools of Conviviality, and Schumacher author of Small is Beautiful proclaims how modern technology continues ruining the planet's environment and humanity in general. The message of the Kaczynski article in particular, professes how this ongoing modern technology is the cause of countless types of humanity's ...

Ergonomics Principles and Using IT as a Remedy for Probable Work Related Injuries in Construction Projects by Mojtaba Valinejad Shoubi, Azin Shakiba Barough, Amin Rasoulijavaheri

Summary of the Article

The article entitled “Ergonomics Principles and Using IT as a Remedy for Probable Work Related Injuries in Construction Projects” which was written by Shoubi, Barough and Rasoulijavaheri presented relevant issues pertaining to evaluating Muscoloskeletal Disorders (MSDs) which were deemed particularly predominant in the construction industry. An initial overview of MSDs, also revealed to be known as Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs) were provided through the disclosure of information on the work-related problem from previous related literatures. Thus, ...

Occupational risk factors for shoulder pain: a systematic review by Daniëlle A. W. M. van der Windt, Elaine Thomas, Daniel P. Pope, Andrea F de Winter, Gary J. Macfarlane, Lex M. Bouter, Alan J. Silman

Summary of the Article

The article entitled “Occupational risk factors for shoulder pain: a systematic review” written by van der Windt, Thomas, Pope, de Winter, Macfarlane, Bouter, and Silman presented results of a study with reportedly aimed to determine risk factors within the work setting that are potentially associated with shoulder pain. The authors initially presented a brief overview of the common incidence for shoulder pain in the occupational setting; where ...

Polyvinylidene fluoride polymer first exhibited the piezoelectric effect in the year 1969 followed by the pyroelectric effect some years later, leading to the development of numerous applications of pyroelectricity and piezoelectricity. PVDF possesses many attractive features as a tactile or touch sensor. Tactile sensors can be used to monitor skin conditions. They find use in minimally invasive surgery. Tanaka et al. developed an active palpitation sensor to detect hypertrophy and prostate cancer. Pyroelectric and piezoelectric polymers help in energy conversion. The Energy Harvesting Eel device created by Taylor et al. used piezoelectric polymers for the conversion of mechanical flow energy ...

Abstract

A company started loosing its market share due to a prolonged period of the system development life cycle (SDLC). We ensure that the time-to-market is reduced in order to increase a company’s competitiveness as we also work on minimizing the requirement engineering (RE) phase of the SDLC while holding the current quality levels of product high. In solving this problem, action research was utilized to a large extent as the preferred method of inquiry. Action research is divided into five types; dialogical, participatory, canonical and dual imperative. In this study, we combined the joint application design (JAD), group decision support system ( ...

Executive Summary

Talent management in any institution is a key concept that should be totally differentiated from human resource management. This is because proper talent management leads to increased productivity and loyalty among the employees. The article “Strategic Talent Management: A review and research agenda”, Human Resource Management Review, 19: 4, 304–313” by Collings, D.G. and Mellahi, K. (2009) helps to shed light on the issue of talent management and human resource management.
The following report analyses the views and issues raised by the authors by looking at the validity and reliability of the research methods used by the authors, ...

Article Reviews

Mayer, J., Wilson, R., and M. Hazlewood. “Personal Intelligence Expressed: A Multiple Case Study of Business Leaders.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality 30(2): 201-224.

Summary

This article acknowledges the wealth of intelligences that can lead to success in many different areas of life, focusing on the ways in which personal intelligence (PI) can influence life expressions. Defined as “the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans and life experience,” PI can increase one’s interest in one’s own personality, and the personalities of others, inspire the creation ...

New low back pain in nurses: work activities, work stress and sedentary lifestyle

In "New Low Back Pain in Nurses: Work Activities, Work Stress and Sedentary Lifestyle," Yip (2003) investigates the prevalence of new low back pain (LBP) in nurses as it relates directly to amounts of physical work and psychological stress endured in healthcare settings. A 12-month prospective study was conducted using 144 nurses from six Hong Kong district hospitals, in which the participants completed face-to-face baseline interviews with telephone follow-up sessions. Questions in the study included demographic characteristics, work activities and stress, as well as physical leisure and the extent and occurrences of new low back pain. Self-reporting was also ...

1. Collaborative tools:
More often than not, the information technology department of an organization will not seek the views of other employees when introducing new office tools. They instead impose new office tools within the organization. Such organizations need to be aware that Software user experience varies between employees. Be it Skype, MS Communicator or Lotus project, for software to be effective, the users (employees) should be involved in selection processes. Only when their views on software’s anticipation of their needs, ease of use, content and effectiveness are sought, will communication be flexible. It would be a tremendous ...

Issues in Industrial psychology

Industrial psychology, also referred to as industrial-organization (I-O) psychology is the study of workplace behavior. Psychologists in this field are concerned with research in establishing ways of boosting productivity, determining employee suitability to specific tasks and trying products. This field is wide encompassing employee training and assessment, research and academic positions. There are many issues in this field and this essay will explore some of them.
Globalization has led to increased spread of businesses and industries across the globe, diversity and demand for business graduates, psychologists have focused on the effect of attitudes, values and organizational frameworks in ...

Introduction

This work is about the implementation and use of the Human Resource Information Systems (HRISs) in various organizations. It investigates the effectiveness of HRISs and how the systems meet the demands of the users. The study was conducted by TNS on behalf of the CIPD’s and 317 organizations were involved.

A questionnaire was sent to 4000 Human Resource professionals and only 317 respondents were received. This means that only 8% of the sample responded. Statistically, this is a misrepresentation, and the findings cannot be taken as perfectly representing the actual ground situation. The study explored various uses of HIRSs, ...