THE subject of this short paper was chosen quite deliberately-not because one has any fresh contribution to make to it, nor because it can be summarised briefly, but because it gives me yet another opportunity of saying that the practice of Occupational Medicine is more than the provision of casualty services, the study of toxic hazards, and the diagnosis and prevention of industrial diseases. ...

almost every experinced manager has been faced with the necessity of dealing with the problems of productivity in connection with wages and salaries. during the last two decades, governments, cultural centers, managers and ::::union::::s have focused their attention on productivity as an important subject and there have been many articles emphasizing the linkage between wages and productivity a...

E conomists often emphasize that “incentives matter.” The basic “law of behavior” is that higher incentives will lead to more effort and higher performance. Employers, for example, often use extrinsic incentives to motivate their employees. In recent years, the use of incentives in behavioral interventions has become more popular. Should students be provided with fi nancial incentives for incre...