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Kluwer Academic Productivity Analysis at the Organizational Level by Nabil R. Adam, Ali Dogramaci
1 Nabil R. Adam and Ali Dogramaci Measuring, analyzing, and improving productivity in a given organization is a complex process that involves the contributions of economists, industrial engineers, operations researchers, management scientists, and lawyers. The objective of this book is to provide the reader with a sample of original papers that relate to these productivity topics at the organizational level. In the book, the word organization refers to business firms and municipal organizations. The hook is divided into three parts: perspectives on productivity mea surement, a range of studies at the micro level, and some productivity issues in public organizations. Part I, which consists of three chapters, deals with productivity measurement. The first two chapters of this part cover a broad framework of measurement concepts and techniques; the last chapter, on the other hand, provides the reader with an example of productivity measurement for a specific industry (in this case, food retail ing). Thus, a spectrum of productivity measurement issues is covered in this part of the book._x000D_ Table of contents : - _x000D_
1 Introduction.- I Perpspective on Productivity Measurement.- 2 Productivity Measurement at the Firm Level: A Brief Survey.- 2.1 Definitions and Proxies.- 2.2 History and Use.- 2.3 Numerators and Denominators.- 2.4 Company Examples.- 2.5 Summary and Outlook.- References.- 3 Measurement of Productivity: Some Open Issues.- 3.1 A Time of Troubles.- 3.2 A Methodological Issue: Causality.- 3.3 Labor Inputs.- 3.4 Capital Inputs.- 3.5 Output of Products.- 3.6 Output of Services.- 3.7 Value Judgments.- References.- 4 Productivity Measurement at the Level of the Firm: An Application within Food Retailing.- 4.1 Measurement Approaches at the Micro Level.- 4.2 Reconceptualizing Productivity.- 4.3 Measuring Output.- 4.4 Testing the Validity of "TIME".- 4.5 Productivity Indexes.- 4.6 Conclusion.- Notes.- References.- II A Range of Studies at the micro level.- 5 A Modeling Approach to Productivity Deals.- 5.1 Changes in Working Hours, Labor Productivity, and the Size of the Work Force.- 5.2 Changes in Wage Rates.- 5.3 Changes in Benefits.- 5.4 The Effects on the Unit Cost and the Profit.- 5.5 Developing Models for Use in the Negotiations: An Example.- 5.6 Conclusions.- References.- 6 Personnel Assignment with a Budget Constraint.- 6.1 Mathematical Formulation.- 6.2 Solving the Problem.- 6.3 The Method.- 6.4 Feasibility and Execution Time.- References.- 7 Experimental Design for Comparing the Productivity of Traditional and Innovative Work Organizations.- 7.1 Traditional and Innovative Work Designs.- 7.2 Models and Hypotheses.- 7.3 Measuring Organizational Characteristics.- 7.4 Measures for Testing the Hypotheses.- 7.5 Productivity Measures.- 7.6 Conclusion.- References.- 8 Market Structure, Technological Development, and Productivity: Some Empirical Evidence.- 8.1 Market Structure and Technological Development: The Theory.- 8.2 Market Structure and Technological Development: Empirical Evidence.- 8.3 A Recent Research Study.- 8.4 Policy Implications.- Notes.- References.- 9 Labor Productivity in Large and Small Firms.- 9.1 The Data.- 9.2 The Results.- 9.3 The Firm Size with the Highest Productivity.- 9.4 Statistical Problems.- 9.5 Value Added per Production Worker Man-Hour.- 9.6 Conclusions.- Notes.- References.- III Some Productivity Issues in Public Organizations.- 10 Improving Public Sector Productivity through Competition.- 10.1 Alternative Organizational Arrangements for Delivering Services.- 10.2 Productivity Comparisons.- 10.3 Introducing Competition to Increase Productivity.- References.- 11 Public Sector Productivity and Collective Bargaining: The Case of New York City.- 11.1 Public Sector Productivity and Collective Bargaining Issues.- 11.2 The Case of the City of New York.- 11.3 Conclusion.- References.- Name Index._x000D_