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An empirical study about the effect of Six Sigma CSFs on quality and cost
Lee, Mi Sook - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 6, pp. 568-580
involvement, culture change, communication, organisation infrastructure, resource investment, training and understanding Six Sigma …
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The effects of training on performance in service companies: A data panel study
Valle, Ignacio Danvila del; Castillo, Miguel Ángel Sastre - In: International Journal of Manpower 30 (2009) July, pp. 393-407
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to determine whether the effort invested by service companies in employee training … treatment with fixed effects. Findings – The prepared models give clear empirical support to the hypothesis that training … limitations related to the use of a training indicator based on effort and not on results obtained, with low representation of …
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Human capital elements and performance of small-scale manufacturing firms in Tanzania
Mahadea, Darma; Mkocha, Aira; Ramroop, Shaun - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 3 (2012) 2, pp. 164-178
that is increasingly knowledge-based. Investment in education and training improves individual and organisational …
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Role of Training on the Development and Improvement of Entrepreneurship Process
Jahanian, Ramezan; Mahjoubi, Setareh - In: Journal of Asian Scientific Research 4 (2014) 4, pp. 182-193
on their guidance based on training positive and suitable talks with him/herself, mental images, beliefs and thinking … patterns, he witnesses increasing operation in compare with peoples in which they don’t have training in this area. …
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Operational performances in manufacturing and service industries: conceptual framework and research agenda
Grando, Alberto; Tapiero, Charles S.; Belvedere, Valeria - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 9 (2007) 2, pp. 110-126
This paper deals with measurement practices and expertises in both manufacturing and service industries. It states that the issue of 'what to measure' still needs further research and discussion, even though there is a general acceptance that the key operational performances of a production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669231
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Knowledge management in small firms
Rantakyro, Lena - In: Global Business and Economics Review 7 (2005) 2/3, pp. 214-225
All companies that wish to stay competitive have to develop their ability to maintain, improve, organise, use and reuse the employees' knowledge, tangible as well as intangible. Knowledge management has become a very important management tool. Although still open to several interpretations, it...
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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997
Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the Americas and East Asia in the past two centuries. Between 1830 and 1945, labor-abundant Britain, the most advanced country, traded heavily with land-abundant countries in the...
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An Empirical Analysis of YTS, Employment and Earnings
Whitfield, Keith; Bourlakis, Constantine - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) January, pp. 42-56
An analysis is made of the effect of YTS participation on the subsequent employment and earnings of participants. It uses data from the first cohort of the England and Wales Youth Cohort Studies. These focus on a cohort of young persons who reached the minimum school-leaving age in 1984 and were...
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Technological change and employer-provided training: evidence from UK workplaces
Gashi, Ardiana N.; Pugh, Geoff; Adnett, Nick - In: International Journal of Manpower 31 (2010) July, pp. 426-448
Purpose – This paper sets out to examine the link between technological change and continuing training at a workplace … increased demand for skills, which induces an increased provision of training. UK data from two waves (1998 and 2004) of the … technological change are more likely to train their workers and also to provide more days of training per worker. Team working is …
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Employer perceptions of skills deficiencies in the UK labour market: a subregional analysis
Watson, Duncan; Johnson, Steve; Webb, Robert - 2006
Past research on labour-market skills shortages indicates that employers report skills shortages or hard-to-fill vacancies for a variety of different reasons. Nevertheless, there is some consensus that skills-shortages analysis needs to examine such shortages within the context of the local...
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