Tyrimo objektas – Lietuvos ir kitų Europos Sąjungos šalių gyventojų užimtumo pokyčiai ir jų veiksniai. Darbo tikslas – išnagrinėjus gyventojų užimtumo pokyčius Lietuvoje ir kitose Europos Sąjungos šalyse, numatyti užimtumo žemės ūkyje perspektyvas. Uždaviniai: 1) išnagrinėti užimtumo sampratą ir pagrindinius rodiklius; 2) išanalizuoti užimtumo žemės ūkyje įvertinimo metodologines problemas; 3) atlikti užimtumo Lietuvos ir kitų Europos Sąjungos šalių žemės ūkyje lyginamąją analizę; 4) įvertinti užimtumo Europos Sąjungos šalių žemės ūkyje struktūrinius pokyčius; 5) numatyti užimtumo žemės ūkyje perspektyvas. Tyrimo metodai. Užimtumo žemės ūkyje teoriniai aspektai nagrinėjami ir sisteminami naudojant mokslinės literatūros analizės metodą; užimtumo žemės ūkyje vertinimui bus naudojami statistiniai – matematiniai duomenų analizės, palyginimo bei grafinio vaizdavimo metodai. Darbą sudaro 3 dalys. Pirmoje išnagrinėta užimtumo samprata, vertinimo metodika ir užimtumo žemės ūkyje vertinimo problemos. Antroje dalyje atlikta Lietuvos ir kitų Europos Sąjungos šalių užimtumo žemės ūkyje pokyčių ir veiksnių analizė. Atliktas užimtumo Europos Sąjungos šalių žemės ūkyje lyginamasis vertinimas, išanalizuoti struktūrinius užimtumo pokyčius pagal lytį, pagal užimtųjų žemės ūkyje statusą, amžiaus grupes, ūkio narių struktūrą. Taip pat nustatyti užimtumo žemės ūkyje veiksniai. Trečioje darbo dalyje pateiktos užimtumo Lietuvos ir kitų Europos Sąjungos šalių žemės ūkyje perspektyvos, atlikus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Research object –changes in population employment and influencing factors in Lithuania and other European Union country. Research subject – having analyzed changes in population employment in Lithuania and other EU states, to project employment perspectives in agricultural sector. Objectives: 6) To analyze conception and main indices of employment; 7) To analyze methodological problems of assessment of employment in agriculture; 8) To do comparative analysis of employment in agricultural sector in Lithuania and other European Union; 9) To estimate structural changes in employment in agricultural sector in European Union states; 10) To prjesct perspective employment in agriculture. Research methods. Method of scientific literature analysis is used to systematize and analize theoretical aspects of employment in agricultural sector; methods of statistical-mathematical data analysis, comparison and graph presentation are used to evaluate employment in agriculture. The work consists of 3 parts. The first part analyses conception of employment, evaluation methodics and problems of employment evaluation in agriculture. The second part presents analysis of factors and changes in employment in agriculture in Lithuania and other European Union states. Comparative evaluation of employment in agricultural sector in European Union states is done, structural changes in employment are analyzed based on gender, employment status, age group, structure of economy members. The third part of... [to full text]

According to the Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, “productivity isn’t everything, but in the long-run it is almost everything”. It is unfortunate that the productivity in the construction industry has lagged behind the manufacturing industry for the last several decades. The research presented in this thesis aims to improve productivity in the infrastructure sector of the construction industry by developing and validating Best Productivity Practices Implementation Index (BPPII) for Infrastructure projects. The BPPII Infrastructure is a check list of practices that are considered to have a positive influence on labour productivity at the project level for infrastructure projects. These practices have been identified through a literature review and consultation with industry experts, and have been anecdotally proven to positively affect productivity. These practices have been grouped together into a formalized set of BPPII’s categories, sections, and elements. Each practice and its planning and implementation levels have been completely defined. Each practice in the index has been assigned a relative weight based on its importance in affecting labour productivity. In total, there are 61 elements, 20 sections, and 6 categories. The six categories of the BPPII Infrastructure are: (1) Materials Management; (2) Construction Machinery and Equipment Logistics; (3) Execution Approach; (4) Human Resources Management; (5) Construction Methods; and (6) Health and Safety. The productivity factor defined as a ratio of estimated productivity and actual productivity was used as a metric to collect information about labour productivity. Data were collected for infrastructure projects on the planning and implementation level of practices, on the productivity factor, and on project schedule performance. The research hypothesis tested was that projects that have a high level of implementation of best practices as defined by the BPPII Infrastructure will have a better productivity performance than projects which have a low level of implementation of best practices. The regression analysis confirms that the BPPII score has a strong positive relationship with the productivity factor. ANOVA tests confirm that there is statistically significant difference between the productivity of projects that have a high level of implementation of practices and those that have a low level of implementation. Also, it was found that projects that have a high score on the index perform better in terms of project schedule performance than projects which have a low score on the BPPII Infrastructure.

Motivation, job satisfaction and their links with productivity have been researched for decades, with many researchers producing contradictory findings. This topic has become especially important in recent times as companies struggle in a challenging economic environment. The organisation that successfully implements strategies which address these issues can gain a significant competitive advantage, as a sustainable increase in productivity from their staff will result in running costs being reduced. This study was carried out on the short-term insurance industry within South Africa and investigated the impact that motivation and job satisfaction have on productivity within the organisation. The study comprised a literature review, which includes the following concepts: a definition of motivation, motivational theories, driving forces of motivation, skills variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, job feedback and organisational productivity. These topics provided insight into motivation, job satisfaction and productivity. A quantitative research methodology was used for this study to understand the relationship between job satisfaction, motivation and productivity. Due to the research being carried out on one insurance company, which the researcher had access to, a non-probability convenience sampling method was used. A key finding was that employees who were motivated or satisfied with their job were more productive. However, staff who were not motivated did not believe they were unproductive. The study also found that there was a relationship between motivation and job satisfaction. One of the recommendations of this study is that companies should empower staff to make decisions, as this is a key factor in them being motivated. Furthermore, job satisfaction is driven by one’s personal beliefs about whether or not their job is important to the organisation; therefore, companies should ensure that managers communicate with their staff regarding how their job affects the organisation. / Thesis (MBA)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2011.

Bakalauro baigiamajame darbe yra analizuojama informacinės visuomenės plėtros įtaka šalies darbo produktyvumui. Darbas susideda iš dviejų dalių. Teorinėje darbo dalyje nagrinėjami Lietuvos ir užsienio šalių autorių moksliniai straipsniai apie informacinę visuomenę ir jos paskaičiavimo metodus bei apie produktyvumą ir jo rūšis. Empirinėje darbo dalyje analizuojama 2000-2010 m. laikotarpio Lietuvos statistinė informacija apie darbo produktyvumą ir informacinės visuomenės plėtrą (informacinių ir telekomunikacinių technologijų parengtis, panaudojimas bei panaudojimo pajėgumai). Lietuvos situacija pagal tiriamus rodiklius lyginama ir su Europos Sąjungos šalimis. Lietuvos atveju darbo produktyvumas nagrinėjamas plačiau, pagal ekonomines veiklos rūšis. O informacinės visuomenės plėtros sudarytas indeksas giliau analizuojamas ir lyginamas su keletą ES šalių. Taip pat, bandoma nustatyti, ar informacinės visuomenės plėtra įtakoja šalies darbo produktyvumą ir kuris informacinės visuomenės plėtros veiksnių daro tam didžiausią įtaką. / In Bachelor’s final thesis the impact of development of information society on country's labor productivity are analyzed. The work consists of two parts – theoretic and empirical. In the theoretic part Lithuania’s and foreign countries’ scientific articles about development of information society and its calculation methodology and productivity and it's types are analyzed. In the empirical part there are analysis of years 2000-2010 statistical information of Lithuania about labor productivity and development of information society (information and telecommunication technology access, use and skills). Lithuania's analyzed indicators are compared with European Union countries’. Deeper analysis is made in Lithuania's labor productivity by economic sectors. Lithuania's calculated index of development of information society is compared with few other European Union countries and analyzed deeper. In addition, the part of the thesis is striving to determine if the development of information society has any impact to labor productivity and which factor has the biggest the influence to it.

An analytical approach for explaining the variability in labour intensive construction operations has been developed. A consistent method of collecting productivity developed jointly at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Dundee has been refined and tested. Data has been collected daily from seven Scottish sites for continuous periods of up to 3 months. Not only productivity but many of the factors affecting it have been measured. A comprehensive, computerised database has been designed to facilitate data storage and manipulation. The quantification of the impact of each individual factor is based on the assumption that deviations from an operative?s normal output arise because of disturbances imposed by a multiplicity of site factors. The impact of each individual factor causes the average daily productivity to change.

Diss. Örebro : Örebro universitet, 2005.

The main goal of this graduation theses named "The remuneration system of human resources in the company" is to evaluate the current system of remuneration and productivity of human sources in a company, that I chose and design a process that would lead to improvement in human resources achievments. In the practical part is charecterized the chosen company, in detail described its system of remuneration and structure of employees. On the basis of the observed data there are designed some changes to make the remuneration system more effective that would lead to improvement in human resources achievments.

The thesis deals with the evaluation of the impact of labor productivity on the profit/loss in the selected company. In the theoretical part are defined options of assessment of the financial situation of the company by the financial analysis. The next part of the thesis describes the problem of labour productivity and outlines procedures for the determination of the impacts on the profit/loss by the pyramid decomposition. In the practical part are used methods of financial analysis and methods of measuring produktivity to selected company. After this finding followes by defining of the factors that affect the labor productivity (quality, technical equipment, etc.). The last part focuses on defining and evaluation of the impact of labor productivity on the profit/loss in the company. The data in the thesis are drawn from the annual reports of the company for the period 2006-2010.

This theses deals with productivity and economic performance of small and medium-sized enterprises of chosen sector of manufacturing industry in Czech Republic. The main goal of this thesis is to assess the relation between labour productivity and economic performance in the selected sector of furniture manufacture. Required data are gained from database Albertina. The theses is devided into two sectors. The first part of thesis describes scientific findings about productivity and economic performance.Practical part focuses on analysis of labour productivity and economic performance of chosen companies. The last section of pratical part is devoted to proving the relations between labour productivity and economic performance represented by indicator ROA and indexes of financial health: IN99 and Reliability index. Regression and correlation analysis evaluates described relations from the static and dynamic view.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo a elaboração de um método para se prognosticar a produtividade da mão-de-obra na execução dos sistemas prediais hidráulicos e o consumo unitário de materiais destes sistemas em dois momentos distintos: fase de viabilidade do empreendimento (método simplificado) e na fase de anteprojeto ou projeto de arquitetura (método analítico). São apresentados os fundamentos que nortearam a elaboração do método proposto, envolvendo a conceituação sobre produtividade da mão-de-obra, consumo unitário de materiais e sistemas prediais. Além destes fundamentos teóricos, faz-se o detalhamento do método de coleta e processamento das informações para a obtenção destes indicadores, abordando o planejamento da coleta de dados, a coleta de dados propriamente dita e seu processamento. Os resultados sobre a produtividade da mão-de-obra são relativos a quatro canteiros de obras localizados no Estado de São Paulo, enquanto que os resultados sobre o consumo unitário de materiais são frutos da análise e levantamento de informações de 12 projetos de sistemas prediais hidráulicos de edifícios residenciais de múltiplos pavimentos. Como contribuição desta tese destaca-se a obtenção de indicadores de produtividade da mão-de-obra considerando as tarefas e subtarefas inerentes à execução dos sistemas prediais, com distintos níveis de esforço, diferentemente dos manuais de orçamentação, que trazem estes indicadores apenas por tipo de material empregado e tipo de conexões. Quanto ao consumo unitário de materiais, o método simplificado permite o prognóstico das quantidades de tubos e conexões tendo-se como variáveis de entrada o número de apartamentos-tipo por pavimento e sua respectiva área. O prognóstico destas quantidades, utilizando-se o método analítico, é feito com base no número e tipo de ambientes molháveis existentes no apartamento-tipo e no número de pontos de consumo/captação de água destes, além de equações elaboradas a partir da observação das concepções dos sistemas nos projetos analisados. Os métodos de prognóstico do consumo unitário de materiais foram aplicados a um caso real e a diferença entre as quantidades de tubos e conexões levantadas em projeto e as quantidades prognosticadas foi de 16% (tubos) e 22% (conexões), para o método simplificado, e 1% (tubos) e 4% (conexões), para o método analítico, indicando a aplicabilidade dos métodos propostos, para estes sistemas. A diferença entre a quantidade de mãode- obra (homens-hora) prognosticada utilizando-se o TCPO (2003) e a prognosticada utilizando o método proposto foi de 71%, indicando a necessidade de um maior aprofundamento na exploração dos indicadores de produtividade da mão-de-obra na execução destes sistemas. / The objective of this work is to elaborate a method aimed at evaluating the labour productivity in the execution of hydraulic systems and the unitary consumption of materials in these systems in two distinct moments: at the undertaking viability phase (simplified method) and at the architecture project phase (analytical method). The concepts that guided the elaboration of the proposed method involving conceptions on labour productivity, unitary consumption of materials and building systems will be presented. Besides these theoretical concepts, the detailing of the collection method and data processing for the evaluation of these indices will be performed, which include from the data collection planning, the data collection itself to the data processing. The results on labour productivity correspond to the survey of these parameters in four building sites in the state of São Paulo, while those on the unitary consumption of materials are a result of analysis and survey of information from 12 hydraulic systems of multiple-pavement residential buildings. The evaluation of labour productivity indices considering tasks and subtasks inherent to the execution of building systems with different effort levels is one of the contributions of this research, unlike budgeting handbooks that bring these parameters only in terms of the type of material and connections employed. Regarding to the unitary consumption of materials, the simplified method allows estimating the quantity of pipes and connections, considering the type and number of apartments per floor and their respective area as input variables. The prognostic of these quantities using the analytical method is performed based on the number and type of rooms provided with hydraulic building systems in the apartment and on the type, number of water consumption/intake points of these apartments, as well as on equations elaborated from the observation of conceptions in the projects analyzed. The proposed methods for unitary consumption of materials were applied to a real case and the difference between the quantity of pipes and connections measured and predicted was 16% (pipes) and 22% (connections), for the simplified method, and 1% (pipes) and 4% (connections) for the analytical method, validating the proposed methods for these systems. The difference between labour employed (man-hour) predicted using budgeting handbooks and those predicted using the proposed method was 71%, indicating the need of further analysis of labour productivity indices in the hydraulic building systems.