White-collar productivity

Nowadays many companies have adopted a policy of continuous improvement of working conditions. Therefore, it is desirable to create target levels for those who want to pursue more efficient control by applying the best available control technologies. There are also endeavors to create optimal working conditions in order to improve the performance and the innovativeness of a staff, and hence enhance productivity. A series of laboratory and case studies show that employee productivity is higher when the work environment is appropriate for the tasks being done.- Such efforts are typical in the advanced sector of industry. One can say that there is a transition from blue-collar to white-collar work. ... 

The total number of employees in the two cases amounted to approximately 13,000. For an analysis, the employees of the metal processing were divided to the categories of production workers (blue-collar employees) and supervisors (white-collar employees). To facilitate comparison, the following data were also gathered ... 

Manufacturers have long emphasized cost reduction in their improvement efforts — particularly on shop floor and direct labor activity. But today s supply chains are increasingly knowledge based. They are composed of informa-hon factories as much as producers of physical goods. The typical cost of a manufactured product is about 10% touch labor, 50% direct material, and 40% overhead. The overhead figure, in particular, includes a lot of informa-hon handling — the domain of the so-called white-collar worker. In a company with this cost profile, these functions will consinne several times the resources directly related to produchon. Of course, the service business is even more information-intensive. 

The effect of marijuana on production can be two-fold. First, an individual who is working close to or at his maximum capacity would probably suffer a decrement in performance after smoking marijuana, which could not be compensated for by additional financial incentive for increased productivity. Second, if incentive was offered, which is many times the case in an industrial situation, the individual s interest in the incentive probably would be lessened. The effects of marijuana on psychomotor function would probably be more severe in individuals performing white-collar jobs where concentration and decision making are normal job requirements. 

Today s meth (crystal, crank, speed) is as addictive as crack, with highs that can last as long as eight hours. Users tend to be white, blue-collar males. Meth production is believed to be one of the fastest-growing cottage industries in the Midwest. 

FIXAPRET PH is, therefore, a top-ranking product for the chlorine resistant finishing of white goods, poplin shirting, blouse materials, and collar interlinings. Good fixation of the product on the fibre is, of course, essential. It should be noted, however, that FIXAPRET PH is liable to impair the light fastness of direct and reactive dyed shades to a certain extent. 

The estimated RR statistic (metal processing, year 2002) shows that the incidence of injurious HLA was relatively much higher in production workers (blue-collar) than in supervisors (white-coUar). 

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