Sentences with phrase «as impact productivity»

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I think your assertions around the key variables that impact workforce productivity are spot on.One of the other variables I would like to contribute is in relation to the employees themselves, as you also talk about employee engagement when referring to staff morale.

innovation results — i.e., evidence of the impact of research, innovation and commercialization as captured in patents, and overall labour productivity.

As an entrepreneur, you're all too familiar with the feeling of being stressed out, but you probably don't know the extent to which stress impacts productivity at your company.

It can be as mundane as needing more microwaves in the café — anything that impacts productivity and success.

Entrepreneurs have long seen outsourcing as a strategy reserved for big business, but technology has made it a more accessible tool for small businesses — and for some small firms, outsourcing has made a powerful impact on their growth, productivity and bottom lines.

And, to our surprise, these previously ignored behavioral differences across CEOs have quite a large association with firm productivity, about one - fifth as big as the impact of a firm's capital inputs (machinery, equipment, buildings, and so on).

Task complexity — Be careful in adding too much complexity to your goals as complexity can impact morale, productivity and motivation.

And if you have a morale problem, you likely also have a productivity problem, among a multitude of other issues such as poor concentration, lackluster performance, and increased turnover, all of which can have a negative impact on your bottom line.

As a strategic investment in the success of the business, many of our clients and prospects lack a technology plan, which can end up with (their) spending creating an unforeseen impact on the productivity of the staff.

«The reduced full year guidance [at South Deep] is attributable to the ongoing impact of poor equipment reliability, the slower advance rates in Corridor 3 and delayed extraction in the composites, as well as slower rates of destress in the March quarter, again a symptom of the lower productivity related to uncertainty around the labour restructuring,» Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland said.

Jonathan has led numerous research efforts on global economic trends, including growth and productivity, urbanization, affordable housing, energy and sustainability, e-commerce, and the economic impact of the Internet, as well as on productivity growth and economic development in China and Asia.

Remember that in terms of «debt productivity» each additional dollar of debt has less and less impact on GDP growth as a larger percentage of the new debt has to be used to service the existing debt.

Risky Business based its findings on data from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, as well as peer - reviewed literature on extreme weather impacts on crops, labor productivity and energy system performance.

One of the most important strategies to increase productivity, recognition, and impact is to present your research as widely as possible.

Well, not only does postdoc dissatisfaction have an impact on current research productivity, it may have far - reaching consequences as well.

The postdocs that I interviewed try to shape the research process to maximize their productivity as measured by the number of publications and the impact factor of those publications.

Men reported that the impact of their domestic violence issues on productivity and time lost were just as great before the incident that brought them to the attention to the criminal justice system as after.

A team of economists and labour market specialists developed an innovative analytical technique to estimate the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on productivity across Britain's low - paying sectors, as defined by the Low Pay Commission.

In their model herbivory is greatest in relatively unproductive environments, with predation more important and the impact of herbivory reduced as ecosystem productivity increases.

It is an estimation of the current (as of 2000) existing rate of annual deaths reasonably attributable to climate change, albeit from a limited subset of climate - related health impacts: malaria due to an increase in the geographic range of disease - bearing mosquitoes, malnutrition associated with loss of agricultural productivity, water - borne diarrheal diseases, and deaths from flooding, McMichael says.

Mahowald said current U.S. energy policies will likely lead to large negative impacts on ocean fishery productivity, but there is hope: «Renewable energy has become more affordable, so as a country, we're moving more toward renewables,» she said.

Direct effects of climate change on trees and forests, such as warmer, wetter conditions improving forest productivity or warmer, drier conditions increasing tree mortality, will be secondary to the impacts of altered forest disturbance regimes, such as changes in forest fire behavior and area burned.

As a behaviour change expert, Dr. Lisa Belanger helps you to implement the seemingly small habit changes that can have a profound impact on your well - being, productivity, and happiness.

First, I use estimates that economists have developed of the social cost of crimes, which include tangible costs, such as lost productivity and medical care, as well as intangible costs, such as impact on quality of life; these estimates are extremely high for fatal crimes.

It offers your new employees the ability to immediately make an impact on your company's productivity and success, as it allows them to practice what they are learning.

For example, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee explain in their book, The Second Machine Age, when factory managers first replaced the steam engines used to power manufacturing equipment with electric motors, the new technology had little impact on productivity.

Laing states that a layout which focuses student attention and interest can have a huge impact on productivity: «Innova has worked on many refurbishments, and factors such as re-thinking desk configurations, teacher positioning and the provision of storage can all have a positive effect on pupil behaviour.

Treating schools as a workplace We know the impact of un-ergonomic workplaces and furniture for adults in terms of productivity and wellbeing, including development of musculoskeletal disorders and increased absence from work.

The commitment comes as the UK faces an estimated shortfall of 20,000 engineering graduates a year, with half of companies in the sector saying the shortage is having a significant impact on productivity and growth.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

And, that partly explains the 1 % vs 99 % argument, because as the rest of the world grows, and the US doesn't, it has impact on those in the US that earn too much relative to their productivity.

Debt problems can have a negative impact on your workplace performance and productivity as well.

The impact of higher temperature and marine productivity is evaluated in the model as a result of higher atmospheric carbon dioxide and oceanic nutrient concentrations.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

Clearly, the loss of biodiversity (estimated at thousands of times the natural backgroud rate), the number of well known species that are threatened (10 - 40 % depending on taxonomic group), the loss of 10,000 - 30,000 genetically distinct populations per day (see Hughes et al., 1997) massive declines of groundwater, soil productivity and fertility, etc. as well as the fact that human activities now impact biogeochemical cycles over huge spatial scales is sufficient evidence that our species is living off of natural capital, rather than income.

«resulting impacts, such as changes in streamflow, wildfires, crop productivity, extreme hot summers, and sea level rise.»

Future scenarios and projections may thus need to include such changes, as well as relevant population estimates, allowing for the impact of HIV / AIDS, especially on farm labour productivity (Thornton et al., 2006).

This paper assesses the impact of pollution on worker productivity by relating exogenous daily variations in ozone with productivity of agricultural workers as recorded under piece rate contracts.

Pieces of this coupling have been introduced previously: that forest loss / gains perturb the surface energy budget sufficiently to influence global climate [15,25]; and that remote, large - scale climate patterns, such as El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), impact ecosystem productivity [37,38].

One reason for this result is that higher atmospheric concentrations of CO2 might make agriculture more efficient, and this productivity increase would not have been vitiated as of 2100 by any detrimental impacts of higher temperatures.

There is also ample scope for reforming tax systems to deal much more effectively with broader environmental and related problems that can be a significant drag on economic growth, such as the health and productivity impacts of poor air quality, and severe congestion of major urban centers.

Labeling issues such as reduced agricultural productivity, loss of biodiversity, pollution and the looming shortage of fresh water as «impacts of global warming» leaves the public confused and susceptible to propaganda by groups who oppose environmental regulation of any kind.

The regional effects of unexplained factors suggest that the next generation of ecosystem models will need to explore the impacts of forest demography, differences in regional management intensities for cropland and pastures, and other emerging productivity constraints such as phosphorus availability.

The plant will use outdated technology and as a result will be a coal plant with disproportionate emissions, impacts on human health, water availability, and agricultural productivity in an age when any new coal plant can not compete economically with renewable energy and is a climate crime.

This has drifted into the realm of personal productivity, but it would likely have benefits in terms of environmental impact and oil usage as well.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

As far as I can see, one of the things that others have been trying to get at in this thread is that, owing to chronic reductions in crop yield, acute crises from droughts or flooding, and (in the case of ocean acidification) reduced productivity of ocean biomes exploited for food sources, starvation is a potential (if not yet 100 % certain) climate impact, especially in tropical / subtropical regionAs far as I can see, one of the things that others have been trying to get at in this thread is that, owing to chronic reductions in crop yield, acute crises from droughts or flooding, and (in the case of ocean acidification) reduced productivity of ocean biomes exploited for food sources, starvation is a potential (if not yet 100 % certain) climate impact, especially in tropical / subtropical regionas I can see, one of the things that others have been trying to get at in this thread is that, owing to chronic reductions in crop yield, acute crises from droughts or flooding, and (in the case of ocean acidification) reduced productivity of ocean biomes exploited for food sources, starvation is a potential (if not yet 100 % certain) climate impact, especially in tropical / subtropical regions.

«Although transaction activity could slow or fall over the next few months as the impact of uncertainty around Brexit is reflected in the number of deals going through, conveyancers have an opportunity to take a deep look at their business and how they can increase productivity.

Discussions as to the increasing use of tablets and legal apps, for example, and how that fosters increased productivity, dance around the issue of the impact of that improved productivity upon the careers of those who had previously been performing those tasks.

Burton Law is seeing a positive impact on productivity, as well as greater agility in working with clients.