Work Study: Volume 41 Issue 1

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Table of contents

Measuring productivity: a how‐to guide

Don Gaile

Briefly discusses the role of productivity management. Offers sevenquestions that should be asked when measuring productivity in anorganization.

Time in your hands

Adrian Fairhurst

Looks at time, as opposed to money, as being the paramountproduction variable of the 1990s, in light of the evolving informationeconomy. Examines streamlining of time in the form…

Building a collaborative advantage

David Kolbus

Looks at how, at a time when efficiency is at an all time premiumand operational complexity is expanding exponentially, many companiesare coming to recognise that the key to…

Office work measurement by PADS

Alan Brown

Details the functions and implications for workplace managers ofPADS, a simplified, predetermined method‐time system which analyses thesequences of manual actions performed in…

ISSN:

0043-8022

Online date, start – end:

1952 – 2003

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited