BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the impact of 'sit less, move more' interventions on workplace performance. This study assessed the short and mid-term impacts of and patterns of change within, a 19-week workplace web-based intervention (Walk@WorkSpain; W@WS; 2010-11) on employees´ presenteeism, mental well-being and lost work performance. METHODS A site randomised control trial recruited...

Asthma accounts for an estimated 3 million workdays lost each year in the United States in addition to reduced worker productivity. Although asthma disease management programs are relatively common in managed care organizations, they have generally not been offered at the workplace. Seventy-six employees participated in a five-session worksite-based asthma education program. A total of 47 of 76...

The importance of face-to-face communication in collaborative projects is well understood in the literature. However, many organisations, and even governments are increasingly pushing for greater use of synchronous media such as video-conferencing to replace face-to-face meetings to drive costs down, reduce carbon footprint and improve efficiency. This calls for a review of existing theories th...

Industrial training needs to be improved as employees are faced with a rapid change in their knowledge environment and their responsibilities. Instructional design was often considered as a keypoint of knowledge transfer but the outcomes in terms of cost and efficiency depend greatly on how the design is realized and how the employees can efficiently use the learning material. In the SAFARI pro...

This study aims to investigate the relationships between human resource management and entrepreneurship in the view of owner-managers and employees, and among employees with in the SME in Thailand. The research method used qualitative method to confirm the phenomenology interest with top management position which women are regarding their career path by using purposive sampling method. The resu...

We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment of the companies to let the employees participate in any efficiency gain. Resistance against technical progress becomes less plausible. Moreover, employees are stimulated to share their specific information advantage on possibilities to optimize the production process and produ...

T purpose of this paper is to assess the claim by the Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA) and the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business (DEWRSB) that Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) allow employers to integrate both the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ dimensions of ‘strategic’ human resource management (HRM) theory, providing greater efficiency and profitability, while a...

Multivariate statistical analysis is utilized to explore the association between firm strategies, contributions made by venture capitalists and incentives for owners and employees and three exporting variables in a stratified random sample of 147 management buyouts and buyins. Firms focusing upon a diversified product/ service range and/or advertising were significantly more likely to be export...

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...