Productivity and Organizational Management : Management Tools, Human Resource Management, Contemporary Engineers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machado, Carolina.

Series:

De Gruyter STEM Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor productivity.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

This book covers the issues related to the advances in productivity and organizational management that result from the continuous and highly complex process of change that today's organizations are facing.

Contents:

Intro

Opening note

Preface

Contents

About the editors

List of authors

1 The measurement of human capital and its relation to the generation of business value: empirical study

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Theoretical background and hypothesis

1.2.1 Human capital and its relationship to value creation

1.2.2 Levels of human capital measurement: the value chain of human talent

1.3 Research design

1.3.1 Source of data, study population, and sample

1.3.2 Study variables

1.4 Analysis of results

1.5 Results

1.5.1 Evaluation of measurement model

1.5.2 Evaluation of structural model

1.6 Conclusions and discussion of results

References

2 A case of certified units in a Portuguese University: interactions of ISO 9000 norms with HRM practices, employee performance, and employee satisfaction

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Quality in the management of organizations

2.2.1 ISO 9000 norms

2.2.2 Quality and human resource management

2.3 Certified units of Minho University

2.3.1 Academic services unit

2.3.2 Social services unit

2.3.3 Documentation services unit

2.4 Methods

2.4.1 Procedures

2.4.2 Sample

2.5 Results

2.6 Discussion and conclusions

2.6.1 Final considerations

3 Management tools for supporting productivity in organizations: empirical evidence from Slovenia

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Theoretical background

3.2.1 Efficiency

3.2.2 Management tools

3.2.3 Utilization of management tools in organizations

3.3 Research design and methodology

3.3.1 Data and sample

3.3.2 Instrument

3.3.3 Research design

3.4 Results

3.4.1 Utilization of management tools in production and service organizations

3.4.2 Utilization of management tools in organizational departments

3.4.3 Usage of management tools and organizational improvements.

3.5 Discussion

3.6 Practical implications

3.7 Limitations and future research direction

4 Economic and social efficiency: the case for inverting the principle of productivity in public services

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Productivity and economic efficiency

4.2.1 Flexible labor markets

4.2.2 Flexible and lean production

4.2.3 Transformational versus transactional change

4.2.4 Operational and organizational logics

4.3 Social efficiency

4.3.1 Learning from flexible production

4.3.2 Deigning down and "deliverology"

4.3.3 The limits of performance appraisal

4.3.4 Economic versus social efficiency

4.4 Hierarchy, surveillance, and education

4.5 Counterproductive health reforms

4.6 Logic in learning from lean

4.7 Responding to technological unemployment

4.8 Working to mutual advantage

4.8.1 Innovation-by-agreement and flexibility-by-consent

4.9 Summary

5 Human resource management in the health system: in the never-ending quest for productivity improvement: The Portuguese National Health Service case

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Literature review

5.2.1 Strategic dimension of HRM

5.2.2 Theoretical framework definition and research hypothesis

5.3 Methodological considerations

5.4 Data presentation and analysis and discussion of results

5.4.1 Processes in the logic of HHR situation analysis in Portuguese NHS

5.4.2 Observed performance in HRM in Portuguese NHS compared with expected performance (SHRM), according to five Peretti vectors

5.5 Conclusion

6 Critical role of managerial competencies in productivity enhancement interventions: an HRM perspective

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The critical role of managerial competencies

6.2.1 What are management competencies?

6.2.2 Improving management competencies.

6.2.3 An approach to competency development for productivity enhancement

6.2.4 Competencies in personal, interpersonal, and group skills: an imperative for productivity enhancement

6.3 Contents of this book chapter

6.4 Improving personal competencies

6.4.1 Self-awareness

6.4.2 Competency to manage personal stress

6.4.3 Competency to solve problems analytically and creatively

6.5 Improving interpersonal personal competencies

6.5.1 Competency to build positive interpersonal relationships

6.5.2 Building a strong power base and using influence wisely as a managerial competence

6.5.3 The skill of interpersonal conflict management as a management competency

6.6 Improving group competencies

6.6.1 Empowering and delegating as a management competency

6.6.2 Building effective teams and team work in work teams as a management competency

6.7 Concluding comments and summary

7 Competencies management in an SME: a lever for greater productivity

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The importance of competency management in SMEs

7.2.1 Competency management in companies

7.2.1.1 Approach to the concept of competency management

7.2.1.2 Effectiveness of competency management

7.2.2 Small and medium-sized enterprises

7.2.2.1 The concept of SMEs

7.2.2.2 Main characteristics of SMEs

7.2.3 The importance of competencies management in SMEs

7.3 Competency management in an SME: empirical study

7.3.1 Theoretical-methodological assumptions

7.3.2 Smile Company

7.3.2.1 Sociodemographic characterization

7.3.3 Methodological instrument

7.3.4 Analysis and discussion of results

7.4 Final remarks

References.

8 Prospective characteristics of contemporary engineers (using the approach of mechanical engineering): Contribution and role of the mechanical engineer to organizational management and productivity

8.1 The objective of mechanical engineering

8.2 Work scope and duties of mechanical engineers

8.3 How to be a well-educated engineer and to have a solid engineering career

8.3.1 University degree

8.3.2 Foreign language

8.3.3 Computer knowledge

8.3.4 Education following graduation

8.3.4.1 Graduate school

8.4 Important factors for success in engineering

8.5 Prospective characteristics of a newly minted engineer

8.5.1 Characteristic 1

8.5.2 Characteristic 2

8.5.3 Characteristic 3

8.5.4 Characteristic 4

8.5.5 Characteristic 5

8.5.6 Characteristic 6

8.5.7 Characteristic 7

8.5.8 Characteristic 8

8.5.9 Characteristic 9

8.5.10 Characteristic 10

8.5.11 Characteristic 11

8.5.12 Characteristic 12

8.5.13 Characteristic 13

8.5.14 Characteristic 14

8.6 Contribution and role of mechanical engineers to organizational management and productivity

8.6.1 A specific example of a medical technique in engineering and science

Reference

9 Productivity and management: a bibliometric analysis

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-220677-0

OCLC:

1569123291