Sentences with phrase «from higher productivity»

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, every dollar invested in employment screening can result in a $ 5 — $ 16 return on investment, stemming from higher productivity, lower absenteeism, a decrease in turnover, and less risk of employer liability.

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, every dollar invested in employment screening can result in a $ 5 — $ 16 return on investment, stemming from higher productivity, lower absenteeism, a decrease in turnover, and less risk of employer... Read more»

Government has often played a role in promoting performance - enhancing work practices to enhance overall economy - wide outcomes from higher productivity and innovation, such as the long history of agricultural extension services (since 1887) to spread information on best practices in farming, and employer education on safety practices conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The remaining decline, meanwhile, is attributable to plant turnover, and a shift in resources from higher productivity plants to lower productivity plants.

Not exact matches

While compensation and benefits matter to workers, research from Gallup shows that zeroing in on a mission is linked to higher employee engagement, better retention rates and increased productivity.

As anyone who's dodged calls from collections agents knows, debt creates stress, which spawns all sorts of nasty offshoots in the workplace: lowered productivity, higher absenteeism, toxic morale.

Most benefits may come not from reducing labor costs but from raising productivity through fewer errors, higher output, and improved quality, safety, and speed.

So you can maintain high levels of productivity no matter where you are, or what time it is — you can get to your data from the office, at home, on a business trip, in a café or airport... the possibilities are nearly endless.

Many commentators go on to conclude that the higher incomes generated by high commodity prices have given Canadians a temporary reprieve from the problem of low productivity growth.

As a strong leader, you can inspire greater engagement and higher productivity from everyone around you.

Taking that time away from work can drastically vacationing can drastically increase our productivity by being able to reflect on a higher level that you usually wouldn't have the chance to do.

Higher productivity and output from fewer employees.

The economy at that time benefited from much higher rates of productivity growth, which allowed employers to raise pay and hire more without having to lift prices.

They found that employees who receive it on a regular basis increase their individual productivity, receive higher loyalty and satisfaction scores from customers, and are more likely to stay with their organization.

Wage and benefit increases of 15 to 20 percent per year at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted for the higher productivity of U.S. workers.

Airline workers also work much harder than they did in the past; the industry had the second highest multifactor productivity growth from 1997 through 2014, according to an analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The growth rate of potential output is expected to increase gradually from 2.0 per cent in 2012 to 2.2 per cent in 2014, reflecting higher trend productivity growth, before edging down to 2.1 per cent in 2015 (Table 2 - A).

If you have identified who these people are, however, you can quickly segment them out from the rest of your buyer personas, achieve a lower cost - per - lead and cost - per - customer, and see higher sales productivity as a result.

New shale oil well productivity drove U.S. production higher in the last few years, with the average daily rate for the first month of operation rising from less than 100 Continue Reading

Rising productivity in manufacturing also led to widespread industrialization, which attracted labour from farms to higher - paying factory jobs.

While it is sensible economics to interpret the positive link of employee stock ownership and profit sharing to company performance as reflecting worker responses to the incentives in the plans, it is possible that the positive relation comes from a very different causal link, in which higher - productivity companies introduce profit sharing or employee stock ownership plans for whatever reason.

These include the economy's lack of diversification away from the non-oil sector and high operating costs as a result of bureaucracy and a lack of competition, as well as low productivity due to relatively weak infrastructure and poor human capital development.

The latter initiative is perhaps the most important, as technological innovation is so central to the country's goal to transition from low - end, labour - intensive manufacturing to a high - tech, productivity - led, consumption - based economy — and such a rich source of opportunities for investors.

The drivers of this low growth environment stem from four secular headwinds — aging demographics, depressed productivity, high global debt levels and incessant deflation deriving from globalization.

Increased productivity, and ultimately higher living standards, comes from investment in capital, provided by financial intermediaries like private equity firms.

Core inflation has drifted higher over the past year, as slowing productivity growth has pushed up growth in unit labour costs, albeit from a very low level.

Flattening the hierarchy can allow employees from all levels of the organization to enjoy a work environment with greater freedom and creativity, and — hopefully — achieve higher levels of productivity.

Such gaps tend to narrow for a number of reasons, including higher marginal productivity on cheaper labor and land costs in lower - tier cities, better economic integration with government - led redistribution of infrastructure and public resources from regional hubs to small neighbor cities, and broader penetration of technology, including smartphones and the internet, according to the Morgan Stanley research.

SPC Ardmona argues it has made every productivity improvement possible, but has been hit by the high dollar, dumping of cheap imports and low or zero tariffs on imported fruit products from China and Europe.

This holistic approach forms the basis of our success in achieving a high percentage of productivity from our Academy system going onto senior football in the Premier League.

This entails shifting labour from low productivity jobs in agriculture to high productivity jobs in urban manufacturing.

The dire consequences of this on many States of the Federation was made worse by some of the earlier decisions the country took including the 2011 minimum wage increase, which from all indications is unsustainable for most states of the federation considering the huge size of the public service of many of them, low productivity and high level of waste.

«This is in part explained by the positive effects of higher wages for businesses, which benefit from reduced levels of turnover, savings from reduced spending in recruiting and training new workers as a result of the lower turnover, higher morale and productivity, and improved customer service.»

Typical of this is a piece of work that I have been driving, looking at how the industry can start to deliver the required levels of productivity from high - throughput screening (HTS).

Organizations that don't provide opportunities for employees to recover from work during the day risk lower employee effectiveness and productivity, leading to burnout, absenteeism, and higher staff turnover, he says.

The methods for achieving greater water productivity, Grant and his colleagues suggest, are threefold: substituting higher - quality water with lower - quality water, regenerating higher - quality water from lower - quality water through treatment, and reducing the amount of high - quality water that is used to generate goods and services.

They found that high rates of carbon accumulation in lake sediments were stimulated by several factors, including «thermokarst erosion and deposition of terrestrial organic matter, -LSB-...] nutrient release from thawing permafrost that stimulated lake productivity, and by slow decomposition in cold, anoxic lake bottoms.»

There remains the risk that robots may displace humans from jobs, although previous waves of automation have tended to lead to higher productivity and growth, with benefits throughout the economy.

(Advisers — whose principal motivation is to obtain the highest rate of scientific productivity from their students and postdocs — often spread this misapprehension.)

What this means, says Paarlberg, is that «the increased productivity of modern agriculture is not from higher yields but lower inputs per bushel».

The improvements in K2 operations and science data analysis resulting from 1.5 yr of experience with this new mission concept, and quantified by the metrics in this paper, will support continuation of K2's already high level of scientific productivity in an extended K2 mission.

«As a wrestler, it is important to develop a strong center of gravity, as well as an efficient productivity force / output between both the lower and upper extremities due to the fact that most of the required muscles and / or positions used for the sport demand a high level of production from a transfer of force from a lower position to a higher position,» explains Mujahid.

This method for tapping both sap and coconuts from the same tree yields 5 - 7 times higher productivity than traditional methods.

Bending the Cost Curve Inside Higher Ed, 1/27/15 «Online education can «bend the cost curve» of an undergraduate degree, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, but whether the lower tuition is caused by a boost in productivity — as opposed to more competition — is still undetermined.

Brian Jacob and Lars Lefgren find no relationship between teachers» pay and their performance in a mid-sized, western school district (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, page 58); and Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, and Daniel O'Brien, in a 2005 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, report no relationship between teacher productivity and changes in pay, suggesting that surrounding districts do not pull the most effective teachers from the city by offering higher salaries.

In the study, which tracks economic - growth patterns from 1970 to 2000, researchers found that the link between national productivity and high test scores weakens and, in some years, disappears when the so - called «Asian Tigers» — Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea — are removed from researchers» calculations.

It is now apparent that the greatest impact of digital technology comes from its deep - seated infusion and use in every facet of an organisation's operations and the part it plays in facilitating the growth of evolving synergistic, higher order ecologies that can improve productivity.

As Latin America comes down from a decade of growth based on exporting commodities at high world prices, it faces the next challenge: transitioning to a higher - productivity economy.

Holding all of the intelligences in high regard shifts the focus from being heavily weighted on the side of industriousness and productivity (certainly important within a larger context) to welcoming and embracing the emotional, the spiritual, the ephemeral.

A cross-sectional analysis of state government employees from Sally Coleman Selden and Donald P. Moynihan found that states with higher pay for state employees experience lower turnover.26 This reduction in turnover from increased compensation helps to explain the common finding that employees» productivity can increase when they are paid higher wages.27 Furthermore, Selden and Moynihan found that states with a higher percentage of state employees covered by collective bargaining agreements have lower voluntary turnover, even after taking into account the effect of unionization on pay increases.28