Productivity and Organizational Management

Management Tools, Human Resource Management, Contemporary Engineers

Carolina Machado, J. Paulo Davim

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9783112207000
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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. Effective work practices and good employee relations are a real necessity of today's organizations, as they can help to reduce absenteeism, turnover, and organizational costs, conducting high levels of commitment, effectiveness, performance and productivity. Addressing these questions this book focuses on the implications of those changes in productivity and organizational management. It explores the models, tools and processes used by organizations to help managers become better prepared to face the challenges and changes in work and, consequently, in the way how to manage today's organizations. As a consequence of social, technological, political and economic changes, the field of work and organization management has become highly complex, claiming management for more effective strategies. Conscious of this reality, this book provides support to academics and researchers, as well as those operating in the management field who need to deal with policies and strategies related to work issues. Giving special attention to interdisciplinary perspectives, to further our knowledge and understanding of productivity and related change processes and work practices, the different chapter contributions of this book contribute to a better merger and interrelationship among organization, management and employee needs in order to increase efficiency, productivity and profitability of modern organizations.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Frontmatter
• Opening note
• Contents
• About the editors
• List of authors
• 1 The measurement of human capital and its relation to the generation of business value: empirical study
• 2 A case of certified units in a Portuguese University: interactions of ISO 9000 norms with HRM practices, employee performance, and employee satisfaction
• 3 Management tools for supporting productivity in organizations: empirical evidence from Slovenia
• 4 Economic and social efficiency: the case for inverting the principle of productivity in public services
• 5 Human resource management in the health system: in the never-ending quest for productivity improvement The Portuguese National Health Service case
• 6 Critical role of managerial competencies in productivity enhancement interventions: an HRM perspective
• 7 Competencies management in an SME: a lever for greater productivity
• 8 Prospective characteristics of contemporary engineers (using the approach of mechanical engineering) Contribution and role of the mechanical engineer to organizational management and productivity
• 9 Productivity and management: a bibliometric analysis
• Index
• Index