Search Results - subject:"STAFFING"

Nurse-to-patient ratios in hospital staffing: A queueing perspective

Véricourt, Francis de; Jennings, Otis B. - European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) - 2008

-to-patient staffing ratios as a means to address the current crisis in the quality of health care delivery. Modeling medical units as …

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Demand, Selection and Patient Outcomes in German Acute Care Hospitals

Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Focke, Axel; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008

In times of peak demand hospitals may fail to deliver the high standard of treatment quality that they are able to offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically.We...

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Nurse-to-patient ratios in hospital staffing: A queueing perspective

Véricourt, Francis de - 2008

-to-patient staffing ratios as a means to address the current crisis in the quality of health care delivery. Modeling medical units as …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357567

Employment adjustments on the internal and external labour market : an empirical study with personnel records of a German company

Gerlach, Knut (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2008

Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...

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Demand, selection and patient outcomes in German acute care hospitals

Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Focke, Axel; … - 2008

affect patient outcomes. -- Hospital staffing ; inpatient outcomes …

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Institutional context and e-recruitment practices of Danish organizations

B. Holm, Anna - In: Employee Relations 36 (2014) 4, pp. 432-455

Purpose – Up to now, there has been little research on the impact of the external environment on recruitment practices of organizations, and in part it lags behind practice. The purpose of this paper is to rectify this by studying recent changes in recruitment practices of Danish organizations...

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A review of human resources management research : The past 10 years and implications for moving forward

Bruce Tracey, J. - In: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 26 (2014) 5, pp. 679-705

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present a review of the human resources (HR) research that has been published over the past ten years in discipline-based and hospitality-specific journals and identify key trends and opportunities for advancing future research....

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Effects of two staffing decisions on the performance of MNC subsidiaries

Ando, Naoki; Paik, Yongsun - In: Journal of Global Mobility 2 (2014) June, pp. 85-85

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between foreign subsidiary staffing and subsidiary … performance by focussing on two staffing practices: first, the ratio of parent country nationals (PCNs) to foreign subsidiary … two staffing practices have different effects on subsidiary performance. The ratio of PCNs to foreign subsidiary employees …

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Benchmarking sales staffing efficiency in dealerships using extended data envelopment analysis

Gonzalez-Padron, Tracy; Akdeniz, M. Billur; Calantone, … - In: Journal of Business Research 67 (2014) 9, pp. 1904-1911

This study presents an approach to benchmark dealer performance in a business-to-business setting through a rigorous efficiency analysis of sales staff allocation. Using a series of basic and extended data envelopment analysis (DEA) models on data collected from a survey of self-reported...

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Call center service process analysis: Bayesian parametric and semi-parametric mixture modeling

Aktekin, Tevfik - In: European Journal of Operational Research 234 (2014) 3, pp. 709-719

theory which gives birth to staffing and the estimation of operating characteristics. Studies investigating uncertainty of … implications of using such models on system performance and staffing are discussed. …

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