Using worker personality and demographic information to improve system performance prediction
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The best approaches that predict the influence of workers performance on system productivity are determined using simulation. The study that has been performed on the real workers indicate that it is imperative to include multiple sources of variation based on the characteristics of the worker, in order to achieve more authentic predictions of system performance.
Publication Name: Journal of Operations Management
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0272-6963
Year: 2004
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Personnel policy and profit
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Personnel policies with respect to pay, tenure, and worker flows in relation with the economic performance of the firm are described. Measures of the relations between personnel policies and profit are produced.
Publication Name: Journal of Business Research
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0148-2963
Year: 2004
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A theory of purchasing's contribution to business performance
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The development of a theory to determine the impact of the integration of purchasing strategy into production planning, on the production competence of manufacturing industries, is described.
Publication Name: Journal of Operations Management
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0272-6963
Year: 2007
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