Reaction of the airways to inhaled Berodual was evaluated in two groups of metallurgists surveilled by systematic, complex medical examinations for appx. 25 years: 31 coke oven and 31 cold-rolling mill workers. All subjects under examination were active smokers, smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day. The frequency of ventilatory disorders (central bronchi obturation, small bronchi obturation, a...

Chapter 1 studies the tradeoff of knowledge generation and information flow in organizations, and explains why many modern firms choose to replace corporate meetings with one-on-one communication. In a theoretical model we compare the efficiency of employee communication during a meeting with the efficiency during a pairwise one-on-one communication. The quality of information transmission betw...

The potential for human resource management to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. life insurance companies has received little attention in the past. Our evidence suggests that U.S. life insurance firms give little attention to consciously aligning their human resource systems with the requirements of their competitive strategies. We also find evidence suggesting that care in preserving relati...

Organization’s size is determined by number of its employees, the largeness of its operation, and its market reach and share. It also poses a very different challenge for the organization’s leaders, while small organizations are build for innovation, large are meant for operational efficiency. The skills necessary for entrepreneurship are quite different from that of running a large and diverse...

• Polluted indoor air can lead to discomfort, reduced efficiency and even ill health amongst employees and residents in modern buildings. • Wool carpet has been shown to rapidly neutralize formaldehyde, nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide, common contaminants in today's indoor environment. • Not only does wool neutralize these contaminants more quickly and completely than synthetic carpet fibe...

In today’s competitive market, it is essential to maximize employees’ efficiency through job structure and knowledge exchange. This phenomenological study explores the lived experience of sharing and creating knowledge in teams of two. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with four dyadic teams.. Data analysis revealed four major themes and eleven sub-themes. This paper focused on one...

Organization’s size is determined by number of its employees, the largeness of its operation, and its market reach and share. It also poses a very different challenge for the organization’s leaders, while small organizations are build for innovation, large are meant for operational efficiency. The skills necessary for entrepreneurship are quite different from that of running a large and diverse...

In today’s competitive world employees with engagement can interact with their job and have desirable job performance. Since improvement of employees’ job performance is the key of efficiency in all levels of organization, investigation of variables leading to the improvement of job performance is of great importance. Thus the purpose of the present research is to analyze the effect of employee...