This study introduces a new reward system for enhancing safety during work activities, by improving workers’ motivation in performance and thereby reducing occupational accidents. The reward system is based on a safety incentive that can be defined by means of two parameters: the worker behavior, which is measured especially in terms of proactivity (namely workers’ attitude in reporting potenti...

Abstract Despite suggestions that work performance varies with age, the empirical evidence is inconclusive and contradictory. Possible reasons for this are lack of differentiation between different types a naive assumption negative linear relationship age task across working lifespan. With study we question revisit these expectations. We take lifespan perspective to explore differential curvili...

Libraries that implement trigger-initiated proactive chat reference services see substantial increases in the number and complexity of transactions. However, it is not clear if this growth a result something inherent to proactivity, or other factors such as increased awareness service. To investigate this, we compare usage during periods with without proactivity databases which our service esta...

• this paper examines the conditions under which corporate social responsibility (csR) is related to value creation in the multinational enterprise (MNe). • Following prior work by Burke and logsdon (1996), we examine the relationship of centrality, appropriability, proactivity, visibility, and voluntarism to value creation. • the results of a survey of 111 MNes in Mexico suggest that centralit...

Purpose – To analyze a series of strategic capabilities/factors that affects organizational innovation (OI) and organizational learning (OL) (personal mastery, transformational leadership, shared vision, proactivity and environment) and demonstrate that OL and innovation are positively related to organizational performance. Design/methodology/approach – Based on prior research, the paper develo...

The ultimate aim when designing an assembly system is to make it strategically and operationally competitive. Competitive systems for manufacturing, especially assembly systems, have to cope with frequent changes of demands. The aim to have a short response time to customer demand, e.i. mass customization, requires assembly systems that are reliable, have high availability and have ability to p...

With our research, we contribute to the research on proactive work behavior in two ways. First, examine a person's gender as boundary condition for at work. Based social role theory, argue that women are less likely receive credit showing personal initiative (PI) than men. Second, agency and communion underlying mechanisms translate PI into evaluation drive backlash effects. The hypotheses were...