Principles of lean management encourage managers to exert tight control over office space and the people within it. Alternative, design-led approaches promote the value of offices that are enriched, particularly by plants and art. On the basis of a social identity perspective, we argue that both of these approaches may compromise organizational outcomes by disempowering workers and failing to g...

The study proposes a new way of measuring productivity and efficiency, with and without considering environmental effects from a production activity, by modifying the conventional Luenberger productivity indicator. The Luenberger approach has so far been applied in productivity and efficiency measurement in time-varying contexts. It has been mainly used in comparisons of international productiv...

Due to the increasing heterogeneity of parallel and distributed systems, coordination of data (placement) and tasks (scheduling) becomes increasingly complex. Many traditional solutions do not take into account the details of modern system topologies and consequently experience unacceptable performance penalties with modern hierarchical interconnect technologies and memory architectures. Others...

A study was commissioned by Hughes Space and Communications software engineering group to determine the effectiveness of the recent introduction of object-oriented languages, technologies, and development methodologies. Of particular was any effects on development productivity. Fundamentally productivity metrics are difficult to apply across non-homogeneous projects and development teams. Furth...

A common pattern emerging from studies on the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning is that productivity increases with diversity. Most of these studies have been carried out in perennial grasslands, but many lasted only two growing seasons or reported data from a single year. Especially for perennial plant communities, however, the long-term effects of diversity are im...

Morphological productivity is generally seen as affix-driven, with a given affix selecting base words satisfying a range of formal and semantic selectional restrictions. Plag (1999), however, has shown that there are base-driven selectional restrictions, and Hay (2000) and Hay & Baayen (2002) have shown that the frequency relation between derived and base word is correlated with affix productiv...

An important recent development has been the emergence o f a body o f literature by Harva rd economists emphasizing a collective voice/insti tutional response (CV/IR) view of unionism, t Possibly the most controversial aspect o f this literature (hereafter, the Harva rd studies) concerns the effects o f unions on labor productivity. Utilizing a product ion function approach, Brown and Medof f (...