Human Work Productivity: A Global Perspective
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Features
- Includes a comparative global perspective
- Presents integrated approaches
- Examines all aspects that feed into productivity
- Covers productivity in a number of different areas (manufacturing, service industry, health, mining, forestry, agriculture, petrochemical, etc ... ).
- Discusses correlations between other factors such as age, education, population and productivity
Summary
The current global economic downturn and considerable shifting in industrial and manufacturing activities have disturbed the homeostasis of the industrial order. Many issues have to be examined in new context to objectively establish new and adjusted approaches. Human work productivity is one of the most important components of industrial economy and the factor that determines competiveness. All components must be considered as an integrated whole for sustained productivity. This book explores these aspects as independent factors and their impact on productivity. It discusses models integrating these factors and schemes of optimization for incorporation in practice.
Table of Contents
Ergonomics Improvements for the Human Operator – Cost Effectiveness Approach, Issachar Gilad and Moran Elnekave
Workstation redesign, Workplace Re-Layout and Productivity, Reem AlKadeem
Productivity and Worker Age, Kurt Landau; Margit Weißert-Horn, Angelika Presl, Regina Brauchler
Human Factors Related to the Success of Total Productive Maintenance, Jorge Luis García Alcaraz, Sergio Gutiérrez Martínez, and Aidé Araceli Maldonado Macías
Design Simplification and Innovation through Adoption of a Time Based Design for Maintenance Methodology, Anoop Desai and Anil Mital
Changes in US Manufacturing Worker Productivity with Working Hours, Vignesh Ravindran, Aashi Mital, and Anil Mital
A comparison of US Manufacturing Workers’ Productivity with Similar Workers in Selected Developed and Fast Developing Economies, Vignesh Ravindran, Aashi Mital, and Anil Mital
Benefits of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Jorge Luis García Alcaraz, Sergio Gutiérrez Martínez, and Salvador Noriega Morales
Productivity and Technology: Techniques Related to Industrial Energy Savings, Alina Adriana
Productivity in Healthcare Organizations, Priyadarshini Pennathur, Arunkumar Pennathur, Paulina Cano, Natalia Espino, and Jacqueline Loweree-Schmitz
