Productivity

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1 - PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF IRANIAN INDUSTRIAL SECTORS BASED ON PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
علی محمدی مهسا هوشنگی

The purpose of this study is to present an integrated framework for assessment and ranking of 23 Iranian industrial sectors, based on several productivity indicators during the years 80 to 85. The integrated approach of this study is based on "principal component analys More

The purpose of this study is to present an integrated framework for assessment and ranking of 23 Iranian industrial sectors, based on several productivity indicators during the years 80 to 85. The integrated approach of this study is based on "principal component analysis" (PCA).The validity of the model is verified and validated by numerical "taxonomy". Furthermore, the non- parametric correlation methods, namely, Kendall-Tau correlation experiments shows high level of correlation between the findings of PCA and “taxonomy” and the approach of this study may be used to assess the importance of each of the selected indicators for industrial units of interest. It is observed that the sectors: "Coke, refined petroleum products" (code 23), " Chemicals and chemical products"(code 24), and " Basic metals" (code 27), have the three top grades in the ranking while the sectors:" Wearing apparel, fur" (code 18), "Textiles" (code 17) and "Furniture, manufacturing" (code 36) have the weakest grades in the ranking. Furthermore, the most important productivity indicators are: Value added to salaries and wages- value added per employee-value added to energy cost- production value per employee-production value to salaries and wages and value added to total input. Manuscript profile

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2 - Measurement and Analysis of Total Factor Productivity by the Tornqvist Index (Case Study: Textile Production in Iran)
مسعود تمسكي بيدگلي مسعود باباخاني سید محمد سید حسینی کاظم نقندریان

In this modern world, considering expansion of competition and lack of resources, everybody knows the importance of measuring of productivity and decomposition of it. Although assigned about 2.8% of value added and 8.5% of employment of large manufacturing industries, t More

In this modern world, considering expansion of competition and lack of resources, everybody knows the importance of measuring of productivity and decomposition of it. Although assigned about 2.8% of value added and 8.5% of employment of large manufacturing industries, the textile industry has not respected more attention. The main goal of this paper is measuring and analyzing of individual and total factor productivity in textile manufacturing industries during period of 1994-2007. For this purpose, after extraction of production factors (labor, capital stock, material and energy), it is measured individual productivity indexes in form of quotient of value added and each of production factors. It is also computed total factor productivity via divisia index and Tornqvist function. The results show that labor productivity has grown annually 4.4% because of labor decrease especially in large firms. However capital productivity has decreased less in the studying period. On the other hand, productivity of electricity consumption and material has decreased annually 1.7% and 1.9% respectively. Total factor productivity index has grown annually 0.6% in average and this improvement mainly has achieved via labor productivity. The econometric model for decomposition of total factor productivity in the textile manufacturing industries has confirmed the positive impacts of production values, per capita wages, percentage of small firms and government expenditures. It has also confirmed the negative impacts of foreign material dependency and working only in expert field. Manuscript profile

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3 - The Role of Agile Manufacturing in Improving Organizational Productivity
gholamreza hashemzade khorasegani Mohammad Reza Bahrami

Today, the increase in instability and turbulence in organizational environments has made organizations achieve certain levels of agile manufacturing to meet the needs of their customers in unpredictable conditions, as agile manufacturing is considered the major contrib More

Today, the increase in instability and turbulence in organizational environments has made organizations achieve certain levels of agile manufacturing to meet the needs of their customers in unpredictable conditions, as agile manufacturing is considered the major contributor to the success and survival of firms. However, many manufacturing firms do not pay much attention to such issues. This paper was mainly aimed at investigating the role of agile manufacturing in improving organizational productivity. To this end, a number of employees at Moghan Wire & Cable Company were selected as the study sample. The research was an applied cross-sectional survey. Simple random sampling was used to select 134 managers, specialists and employees familiar with agile manufacturing at Moghan Wire & Cable Company. After identifying productivity and agile manufacturing indicators, a questionnaire was designed. The questionnaire’s validity was confirmed by professors and a group of experts at Moghan Wire & Cable Company. Cronbach’s alpha was used to evaluate the questionnaire’s reliability. The questionnaire’s Cronbach’s alpha was 0.90. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze the collected data and find the relationships between the variables. The analyses were performed using SPSS 20 and SmartPLS 2. The results showed that high levels of agile manufacturing had a significant influence on productivity at Moghan Wire & Cable Company. Manuscript profile

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4 - Identifying and ranking the effective factors on hospital teams' productivity using ANP-BWM approach (A case study: The Sadjad hospital in Tehran)
Abdolreza Karimi Marzieh Mozafari Rambod Barandoost

Health care services are of the most important operations which are usually done inside teams. This paper aims at identifying and ranking the hospital teams' productivity indices. For this purpose, the effective factors that influence hospital teams' productivity have b More

Health care services are of the most important operations which are usually done inside teams. This paper aims at identifying and ranking the hospital teams' productivity indices. For this purpose, the effective factors that influence hospital teams' productivity have been identified through literature study as well as experts survey. These factors then have been reduced to 34 criteria using a screening approach and then categorized into 9 main groups. Internal relations among the factors have been examined using statistical tests. We proposed a new ANP-BWM approach combining the analytical network process (ANP) and best-worst method (BWM) to rank the factors. The proposed ranking approach can significantly reduce the number of pairwise comparisons in ANP method. Finally, in the case of Sadjad hospital, 12 nursing teams have been selected and investigated. Results show that “the quality of services” has the most and “the permanent employment” has the least impact on nursing teams’ productivity. Manuscript profile

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5 - Investigating the effect of employer brand on human resources productivity with the mediating role of Talent Management (Case Study: Elites in a defense organization)
younes nazari majid ramezan Masih Ebrahimi

Iranian governmental agencies, to realize the slogan of "resistance economy, action and implementation", require special attention to the human resources productivity. This leads to the customer retention, improving financial performance and profitability. The employer More

Iranian governmental agencies, to realize the slogan of "resistance economy, action and implementation", require special attention to the human resources productivity. This leads to the customer retention, improving financial performance and profitability. The employer brand is a long-term strategy to attract, retain and develop human resources that can be an important factor affecting labor productivity. Research has also shown that one of the factors affecting the productivity of human resources is talent management. The present study has investigated the influence of the employer brand on the human resources productivity as well as the mediating role of talent management in influencing human resources productivity by employer brand. Implementation of the outcomes of this study will provide an increase in labor productivity. The study population includes the elite employees of a defense organization. This study was conducted on a sample of 45 members of staff; the purposive sampling was used in this regard. The research method was descriptive correlational and a researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. Data analysis was conducted using equation modeling in PLS software. The findings indicate that the employer brand and talent management affect human resources productivity; the employer brand also affects talent management. Manuscript profile

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6 - Public Expenditure and Human Resource Productivity in Iran
سعید عسکری ماسوله Mohamad Taghi Taghavi fard

Public spending is a necessary requirement in every state for doing its tasks in the areas of education, health, security, and defense. How to spend on these expenditures can, directly and indirectly, impact the productivity of human resource. This paper seeks to examin More

Public spending is a necessary requirement in every state for doing its tasks in the areas of education, health, security, and defense. How to spend on these expenditures can, directly and indirectly, impact the productivity of human resource. This paper seeks to examine the proportion of these expenditures together and their impact on the productivity of human resource. This study was conducted during the period 1990 to 2015 and the generalized least squares and Granger causality method was used to investigate the effect of public expenditure. The results of the causality test showed that there is a one-way causal relationship between educational expenditures and health expenditures and there is no causal relationship between military expenditures and human resource productivity. On the other hand, the results of the model's estimation indicate that the health and military expenditures don't effect on human resource productivity, which indicates the health expenditures are not properly spent by the government and military expenditures don't have the role of complementary or competing for two other components of public expenditure. Manuscript profile

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7 - The study of cyberlofing (unnecessary use of the Internet) in the workplace and its effect on employee productivity
akbar bahmani ramzan gholami

The purpose of this study was to analyze the cyberlofing (unnecessary use of the Internet) in the workplace and its effect on employee productivity. The purpose of the present research is to apply the applied research group and is descriptive and descriptive in the rese More

The purpose of this study was to analyze the cyberlofing (unnecessary use of the Internet) in the workplace and its effect on employee productivity. The purpose of the present research is to apply the applied research group and is descriptive and descriptive in the research field. The statistical population of this research includes Zamzam employees with 1300 people. The statistical sample of the study was obtained using the law of 10 structural equations. A sample of 350 individuals was selected as a stratified sampling. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire was determined using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and combined reliability, and the validity of the questionnaire was confirmed using convergent validity and content validity using the knowledge of experts familiar with the research topic. Also, SPSS22 and Lisrel8.8 software were used to determine the relationship and data analysis. The results of data analysis have confirmed all the research hypotheses: personality factors, job requirements, job conflict, organizational policies, and organizational justice have a significant effect on cyberlofing. Also, the results indicate that cyberlofing will reduce the productivity of individuals in the company. Manuscript profile

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8 - Designing a Comprehensive Personal Productivity Assessment Model for the Personnel in Banking Industry
Ali Nemati Hojjat Taheri Goodarzi Parvaneh Gelard Yadollah Abbaszadeh Sahroun

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The present research aims at designing a comprehensive personal productivity assessment model for the personnel in the banking industry, which has been conducted with a combined (qualitative-quantitative) method. Objective sampling method has been employed for the resea More

The present research aims at designing a comprehensive personal productivity assessment model for the personnel in the banking industry, which has been conducted with a combined (qualitative-quantitative) method. Objective sampling method has been employed for the research where a number of university elite and experts as well as managers of the banking industry were elected as samples. Semi-organized interviews and closed-ended questions were used as the first and second stages of data collection. The method of analysis in the qualitative section was inductive thematic analysis and in the quantitative section was structural equations modeling, and the results of the research in the qualitative section is indicative of identifying 377 meaningful concepts or propositions resulting from 110 interview texts; however, taking into account the notion of concentration, the meaningful concepts and propositions were reduced to 137 primary themes. Further on, 15 subsidiary themes and 3 levels of main themes were identified. For the quantitative section, a structural pattern was presented for the correlation among the components which depicted that from among the 15 components constituting the personal productivity of the personnel in the banking industry, the highest ratio belongs to social intelligence with the value of 0.82 and the lowest ratio goes for professional competency wit the value of 0.49 Manuscript profile

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