Increased sleepiness at work is increasingly being focused on as a safety and health issue. However, research on workers' sleepiness is very limited in scope and the characteristics of work organization, including the impact of job stress, have not been fully addressed. A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the prevalence of daytime sleepiness and its associated factors among non-...

A typology of four ideal types has been developed to classify the different forms of engineer-to-order (ETO) company. This framework is used to examine the impact of market changes on the configuration of production processes. Markets that were once stable are now dynamic and uncertain. The research found that ETO companies have responded to the environmental changes by adopting new configurati...

Creation and maintenance of competencies is one of the most strategic activities in organizations, especially in knowledge intensive ones, as is the case of consulting companies. The role of core competencies in making a company achieve competitive advantage has been widely investigated in (Hamel and Prahalad, 1990). Other studies (Gronau and Uslar, 2004) show that the return on investment is s...

the balanced scorecard framework with a hierarchical, multilayer, and causal-effect structure can shed light on the growth path and pave the development steps, which in addition to monitoring the financial goals. it also considers and controls the other effective and driving factors. in this study, after reviewing the balanced scorecard, a model was proposed in addition to extract the strategic...

Development of the global economy leads to the spread of multinational companies operating in all parts of the world. It follows that multinationals perform relocation of significant resources to other countries, from which eventually derive a profit from the business operations performed there. The influence of growth of international economy has become a major force in business and therefore ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this research was to examine racial differences in trust in various healthcare institutions. METHOD In telephone interviews, 195 Whites, 183 Blacks, and 171 Latinos from Durham, NC indicated how often they trust various institutions (community doctors, local hospitals, county health department, insurance companies, and state and federal government) to do what is best for...

This case study examines the automation and process change options available to emerging discovery/development stage pharmaceutical companies when considering implementing sophisticated high-throughput screens. Generally there are both financial and personnel constraints that have to be addressed when implementing state-of-the-art screening technology in smaller companies which generally are no...

For purposes of this subpart: Bank holding company means any company that controls a bank (as provided in section 2 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)). Consultant. For purposes of this subpart, a consultant for a national bank, savings association, bank holding company, savings and loan holding company, or other company shall include only an individual who works d...

Many companies move from open-plan offices (OPO) to activity-based workplaces (ABWs). However, few studies examine the benefits and drawbacks following such a change. The aim of this study was to explore how physical conditions, office use, communication, privacy, territoriality, satisfaction and perceived performance change following a company's relocation from an OPO to an ABW. A mixed method...