Managing Work Productivity Through Global Competence

Managing Software Productivity and Reuse

Your organization can choose from three main strategies for improving its software productivity. You can work faster, using tools that automate or speed up previously labor-intensive tasks. You can work smarter, primarily through process improvements that avoid or reduce non-value-adding tasks. Or you can avoid unnecessary work by reusing software artifacts instead of custom developing each pro...

Managing Core Competence of the Organization

Past studies on ‘core competence’ have deliberated either on the theoretical concept of core competence or its usefulness as a strategic tool for firms. In spite of a large number of papers on the subject, to the author’s knowledge, there has been no study which spells out an actionable framework for leveraging the concept of core competence in creating competitive advantage for organizations. ...

Discretion, Productivity and Work Satisfaction

In Bartling, Fehr and Schmidt (2012) we show theoretically and experimentally that it is optimal to grant discretion to workers if (i) discretion increases productivity, (ii) workers can be screened by past performance, (iii) some workers reciprocate high wages with high effort and (iv) employers pay high wages leaving rents to their workers. In this paper we show experimentally that the produc...

Managing Waste Through Managing People

Enhancing Metaphoric Competence through the Cognitive Approach

Studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. Metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. Most textbooks in ESL/EFL avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. This article reports a study conducted at the Islamic Azad Univ...