The impact of globalization on business has forced most industries to become more innovative and implement newer strategies to retain market leadership and growth with the desired profitability. The retention of corporate engineering knowledge and rules is also critical because of the aging workforce. Knowledge based engineering is a concept that allows for the retention of corporate knowledge ...

In this paper, we explore the impact of workers’ tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data private Belgian firms. We estimate a production function augmented with firm-level measure tenure. deal endogeneity, which arises from unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causality, by applying modified version Ackerberg et al.’s (2015) control method, explicitly...

BACKGROUND Worksite-based programs to improve workforce health and well-being (Workplace Health Promotion (WHP)) have been advanced as conduits for improved worker productivity and decreased health care costs. There has been a countervailing health economics contention that return on investment (ROI) does not merit preventive health investment. METHODS/PROCEDURES: Pertinent studies were reviewe...

Employee participation and establishment-level codetermination via works councils are central elements of the German system of industrial relations. The existence of a works council is widely observed to be positively correlated with productivity. However, much less is known about the transmission channels that works councils use to affect productivity. In this paper two hypotheses have been de...

Although there would appear to be considerable potential for improving the health, productivity and quality of life of the Australian workforce through workplace physical activity (PA) promotion programs, the scientific evidence that such programs are effective is limited. This review appraises the quality of intervention studies conducted since 1997. Most studies included volunteer participant...

The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important question for firms and for governments to ask whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained f...

Every country struggles with how best to meet the demand for health care services with the available resources. This commentary offers a perspective on the Israeli physician workforce and the analyses of Horowitz et al., which found age and gender differences in physician productivity and career longevity, differences across specialties, and a sizeable fraction of licensed Israeli physicians li...

AIMS To estimate current and future specialist neurologist demand and supply to assist with health sector planning. METHODS Current demand for the neurology workforce in New Zealand was assessed using neuroepidemiological data. To assess current supply, all New Zealand neurology departments were surveyed to determine current workforce and estimate average neurologist productivity. Projections...

Orthodontic workforce planning Historically, orthodontic workforce planning has proved difficult. In 1985 Stephens et al.1 predicted an oversupply of orthodontists and yet only 13 years later the Task Group for Orthodontics identified a shortfall and recommended a target of 480 general dental service specialist practitioners for the UK. This wide ranging and perspicacious report took into accou...