Productivity of remote workers is of critical concern to organizations and managers contemplating telecommuting arrangements. Here we suggest a general theoretical framework for understanding telecommuter productivity, and then report on a two-phased research study. In the first phase, semi-structured interviews with 32 telecommuters were conducted in one organization, and individual, social, a...

Although the effect of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning has become a major focus in ecology, its significance in a fluctuating environment is still poorly understood. According to the insurance hypothesis, biodiversity insures ecosystems against declines in their functioning because many species provide greater guarantees that some will maintain functioning even if others fail. Here we exa...

abstract many agricultural researches have been performed to improve soil productivity. nitrogen (n) and phosphorus (p) are essential elements which are utilized by the plants in large amounts. phosphorus can be provided by applying chemical fertilizers. microorganisms convert insoluble phosphate to the soluble form and some bacteria such as rhizobacteria play an important role in this process....

The paper analyses the scientific research production of more than a thousand faculty members of Louis Pasteur University, large and well ranked in Europe. We take account of individual and collective determinants to explain individual productivity in terms of intensity and quality. We find that individual variables related to the position occupied are significant. The size of the lab plays neg...

There is a widely shared perception that Management Information Systems (MIS) research has significantly improved in both quantity and quality over the past decade. Most MIS academics and practitioners have strong opinions about who the leading MIS researchers are and which institutions are on the cutting-edge with respect to MIS research. To a large extent, these opinions are subjective, based...

Many researchers and managers agree that small workgroups tend to lose productivity and speed as they grow large and that decision-making tends to become sluggish in very large organizations. These effects are attributed to collaborative coordination costs that grow in importance as functions of an organization’s scale. Understanding of these effects has however been primarily empirical and qua...

objective: the article arises from a research project investigating the effectiveness of safety training on changing attitudes toward safety issues. followed by the training intervention was observed that employees’ helplessness decreased. the researchers have come to the idea of investigating how safety training can reduce perceived helplessness. thus, this research examined the effectiveness ...

Using combined experimental and survey data, this paper provides empirical evidence that firm productivity is related to worker’s pro-social behavior in the workplace. At the firm level, we find a strong positive relationship between firm productivity and reciprocating behavior among workers. Investigating workers’ individual behavior we find a similar, strong relationship when regressing earni...

Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) uses components to construct systems, being a means to increase productivity by promoting software reuse and increasing software quality. The process of assembling component is called component composition. Components are themselves compositions of components. This give rise to the idea of composition levels, where a component on level i may be decomp...

Purpose: This research was conducted to develop a comprehensive model for improving the supervision system in sports organizations of the country. Methodology: In terms of purpose, the research was applied and developmental, and in terms of the method of data collection, it was a mixed type of sequential exploratory design. In the qualitative phase of the research, semi-structured interviews w...