Improving the living standards of populations is a widespread societal objective. A cornerstone of living standards is the ability of individuals to earn wages and profits in order to purchase goods and services for consumption. In turn, wages and profits reflect the value of the goods and services produced in an economy and the productivity of the factor inputs used to produce them. Though liv...

PURPOSE The current status of external and internal workload and productivity measurement systems and strategies to improve their use to maximize overall pharmacy department operational performance and staffing effectiveness are described. SUMMARY The use of operational benchmarking is increasing within health systems as a tool for continuously measuring and improving departmental performance...

PURPOSE The current status of external and internal workload and productivity measurement systems and strategies to improve their use to maximize overall pharmacy department operational performance and staffing effectiveness are described. SUMMARY The use of operational benchmarking is increasing within health systems as a tool for continuously measuring and improving departmental performance...

the coordination and alignment between the corporate, business and functional strategies cause to raise organizational efficiency. this article based on strategic reference points theory, intends to illuminate how the alignment of human resources , ethical decision making and organizational culture strategies affect firm performance. data for this study were collected from research organization...

Extensive government control over industrial and service sectors show it could not overcome the increasing misuse of public resources, raisins debts, lack of improvement in operation efficiency and mismanagement. Numerous productivity programs could be a key to improve performances. In present article a case of productivity program in one of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) namely Isfahan Steel M...

the greatest limitations to agricultural development and production in iran are scarcity of water resources, ineffective irrigation scheduling and wasteful water usage. avenues discussed for optimum water use include improving water productivity by improving irrigation scheduling, farm water management and water profitability. the present study evaluated current water use and ways to improve wi...