The purpose of this research was to determine if motivation had any influence on productivity in a merged real estate company. A secondary purpose of this research was also to determine the influence of commitment on motivation and productivity. A questionnaire was designed by the researcher emanating from the literature review addressing the variables of motivation, productivity and commitment. The questionnaire consisted of 58 questions: 4 demographical questions and 54 questions on the three variables of motivation, productivity and commitment. Frequency analyses were used to determine the results from the questionnaire on the three variables of motivation, productivity and commitment. Participants in the research included 315 employees of the 524 employees of the real estate company. These employees were located in the Carlton, Inland and the Corporate offices that are situated in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Kimberley. The results showed a direct link between motivation, commitment and productivity based on aspects like training, work experience, work knowledge, culture and tradition, leadership styles and the understanding of information systems. A limitation of this research entailed that additional research will be needed on mergers in real estate companies seeing that this study is not a representative sample of all mergers in real estate companies. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

The purpose of this research was to determine if motivation had any influence on productivity in a merged real estate company. A secondary purpose of this research was also to determine the influence of commitment on motivation and productivity. A questionnaire was designed by the researcher emanating from the literature review addressing the variables of motivation, productivity and commitment. The questionnaire consisted of 58 questions: 4 demographical questions and 54 questions on the three variables of motivation, productivity and commitment. Frequency analyses were used to determine the results from the questionnaire on the three variables of motivation, productivity and commitment. Participants in the research included 315 employees of the 524 employees of the real estate company. These employees were located in the Carlton, Inland and the Corporate offices that are situated in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Kimberley. The results showed a direct link between motivation, commitment and productivity based on aspects like training, work experience, work knowledge, culture and tradition, leadership styles and the understanding of information systems. A limitation of this research entailed that additional research will be needed on mergers in real estate companies seeing that this study is not a representative sample of all mergers in real estate companies. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

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Graduation date: 1984

This thesis applies innovative methods to the efficiency and productivity analysis of the Australian banking system. Key areas of investigation include the impact of regulatory reforms on bank performance, the impact of firm entry and exit on industry productivity and the changing nature of banking and the role of risk in measuring bank value-added. The latter leads to the construction of a new bank production model, emphasising risk management as part of a bank??s value-added. As such, the proposed bank output framework views risk as a productive service, rather than a bad output or externality, which is often assumed in the literature. Aided with this new framework, several refinements are suggested for the treatment and measurement of bank output by researchers and statistical agencies. A unified regulatory framework combined with a greater level of harmonisation in rules in the Australian banking sector, has meant that a pooled analysis of all deposit-taking institutions has become feasible for the first time. With an enlarged dataset new insights are gained into the relative performance of deposit-taking institutions in Australia. The results challenge commonly held views of bank efficiency and the relevance of scale, size and incumbency when measuring bank efficiency. The new definition of bank output is also applied across the sector using econometric and non-parametric techniques to gauge productivity. Problems with balanced data sets and aggregation of firm level productivity are examined. A new approach to decomposing aggregate industry level productivity is introduced based on strong axiomatic grounds and its ability to attribute productivity between continuing, exiting and entering firms. The technique is applied for the first time and uses the newly developed bank output production model. The analysis provides key information on the relative performance of firms in the Australian banking sector.

This thesis assesses the efficiency wage hypothesis using Australian industry and macro economic time series data by focussing on two questions: whether paying an above market clearing wage called the efficiency wage raises industry output and productivity, and if such a payment causes unemployment at the macro economic level. The wageproductivity or wage-output nexus is investigated using three techniques; namely a decomposition procedure used by Huang, Halam, Orazem, and Paterno (1998), an instrumental variable estimation method, and the Solow residuals approach. Further, an examination of macro economic unemployment involves developing an aggregate unemployment equation, where the Solow (1979) model is used to derive a testable hypothesis. The Solow model argues that effort, which is a function of the wage, enters the production function when the real wage is rigid. By introducing profit maximising behaviour and making further economic assumptions, the Solow condition that the effort elasticity with respect to the wage is one can be derived. The theoretical framework of Solow is useful as specifying a production function allows the possibility of aggregate data being used to assess the wage-productivity prediction. The Solow condition is also useful because it provides the basis for constructing a testable hypothesis using an unemployment equation. Solow???s theoretical framework and the Solow condition does not rely on the economic assumptions of the shirking, labour turnover, sociological and adverse selection [micro economic] efficiency wage models. Therefore, the innovation of this thesis is to treat the efficiency wage hypothesis as an imperfectly competitive model of the labour market using applied macro economic methods. Previous Australian macro economic literature in the 1970s and 1980s have argued that the wage is either harmful to employment prospects (ie unemployment is classical), or that factors such as consumption and investment are more important (ie unemployment is Keynesian). One of the aims of the thesis is to use the empirical analysis to suggest that neither of these propositions is entirely correct. Rather, an intermediate position is arrived at by arguing that there is some empirical evidence in Australian industry and macro economic time series data to suggest that the wage plays a dual function: both as a small source of productivity and also a minor cause of involuntary unemployment.

Thesis (M.Ag.Sc.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Agronomy, 1982. / Typescript (photocopy).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-91).

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-116). Also available via the Internet.