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Handbook of Research on Transnational Higher Education
Various measures, ratiosratios, or methodologies to rate the performance of the higher education institutions such as Retention rates and graduation rates, time-to-degree, drop- and stop-out rates, etc.
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Observations through a Keyhole: The Changing Dimensions of Global Higher Education
Tak Cheung Chan (Kennesaw State University, USA), Evan G. Mense (Southeastern Louisiana University, USA), Mindy Crain-Dorough (Southeastern Louisiana University, USA), Michael D. Richardson (Southeastern Louisiana University, USA), and Kenneth E. Lane (Southeastern Louisiana University, USA)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4458-8.ch004
Abstract
Global higher education leaders face the most explosive political environment in the history of higher education in the world due to decreased financial resources coupled with increased accountability. As revenues become scarcer, calls for accountability continually increase the five often-competing forces driving change in global higher education. In order to gain a more holistic view of accountability, the authors focus on five major shifts in global higher education: 1) Supply: financing; move from state-supported to state-assisted; 2) Demand: students; by 2020 minority students will be the majority; 3) Delivery: competition; faculty, f2f, online, technology, etc.; 4) Structure: new structures in different locations, internationalization, no longer brick and mortar, brick and click; 5) Productivity: management by objectives and results orientation.
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Productivity Convergence and Asian Trade Blocks
Productivity is defined here as GDP per worker as defined in the Penn-World Table.
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The Impact of Unified Communication and Collaboration Technologies on Productivity and Innovation: Promotion for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Productivity improvement can be introduced rapidly through combinatorial digital transformation towards innovation.
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Social Loafing: Why Does It Matter in Tourism Industry?
The rate connected with the amount of production resources and the output produced.
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Unified Communication Technologies at a Global Automotive Organization
Productivity improvement can be introduced rapidly through combinatorial digital innovation.
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Productivity Profiles of Islamic Banks Using Data Envelopment Analysis-Based Malmquist Productivity Indices (MPIs): Survey, Classification, and Critical Analysis
In the context of banks, productivity refers to the efficiency and effectiveness with which they convert inputs (like capital, labor) into outputs (like loans, financial services).
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China's Economic Growth and Innovation in Globalization
The effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.
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Standards for Skill Training and Development
Productivity captures the relationship between production of an output and inputs used in accomplishing the assigned task. It is measured as a ratio of output per unit of input over time. It is a measure of efficiency and is usually considered as output per person-hour.
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Joint Service Development with the Local Authorities
Public sector productivity involves efficiency and outputs, it also involves effectiveness and outcomes.
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Organizational Culture: A Key Element for the Development of Mexican Micro and Small Tourist Companies
It is also an economic measure; it has to do with the company's ability to produce. Productivity is directly related to the person and their level of performance within the company.
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The Effect of Total Quality Management on Supply Chain Management in the Digital World: Case of Healthcare Services
It is a measure of converting inputs to output. It is stated that the more the given inputs can be converted into output, the higher the productivity.
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Software to Optimize Productivity and Efficiency
A ratio of production output to what is required to produce it (inputs).
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Quality Models and Systems in Relation to the Automotive Sector in Colombia: Autoparts Sector Case
The effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.
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Technology Leapfrogging for Developing Countries
In economic terms, is the value of output produced using one unit of input. Workplace productivity generally means output per worker. For a considerable period of time, economists failed to determine the relationship between investments in ICT and productivity. This phenomenon was known as “productivity paradox”. Although evidence of this relationship has emerged from studies at the firm level in recent times, measures of it at the aggregate or industry level remain nebulous (Pilat, 2005 AU28: The in-text citation "Pilat, 2005" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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Collective Bargaining as a Tool for Industrial Conflict in Organization and Conflict Resolution
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Solving the Paradoxes of the Information Technology Revolution: Productivity and Inequality
Measures the changes in output per unit of input. To better understand the complementarities between Information Technology capital and other inputs, the use of multifactor or total productivity is widely used in the study of the relationship between productivity and changes in the Information Technology capital.
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Ten Years of Enterprise 2.0: The Power Law of Enterprise 2.0 Revisited
Measures the efficiency of a company production AU60: The URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_(economics) has been redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_(economics). Please verify the URL. system—productivity is typically a function of inputs, their combination, and a drift linked to technical and technology progress.
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The Impact of Improvement in Productivity on the Creation of Value in the Automotive Parts Sector
A measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, factory, system, etc., in converting inputs into useful outputs. Productivity is computed by dividing average output per period by the total costs incurred or resources (capital, energy, material, personnel) consumed in that period. Productivity is a critical determinant of cost efficiency.
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Software Agents and Contracts
A measure of performance in accomplishing the assigned task given by the relationship between production of an output and one, some, or all of the resource inputs used. It is often measured as a ratio of output per unit of input over time.
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Mental Health and Employee Performance: A COVID-19-Based View
Productivity denotes a ratio between input volume and volume of output.
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Creating a Computer Simulation with Ill-Structured Problems for Physical Therapists in the Acute Care Setting
This is typically a measure of time spent on patient care that is considered billable. This includes assessment and intervention activities when a health care professional is in direct contact with the patient. This does not include interprofessional communication and consultation time.
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A Cost Model of Open Source Software Adoption
The rate of work output in time. In this paper, this is measured in documents created per unit of time.
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The Caribbean Community: A Promise yet Unfulfilled
A nation’s performance, aimed at competing in a regional and global market.
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WorkAI: Raising Work-Related Self-Awareness With Gamified Approach
A measure to determine the efficiency of a person completing a task.
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IT-Enabled Reengineering: Productivity Impacts
A measure of a firm’s efficiency in converting inputs into outputs. Essentially, it refers to the rate at which outputs are produced per unit of input (labor and capital). Productivity can be considered as either minimizing the use of inputs for a given output level (e.g., reflecting efficient production processes that minimize waste) or maximizing output for a given input level (e.g., reflecting the use of resources in the production of goods and services that add the most value).
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Nurturing Positive Organizational Climates to Enhance Work Success: A Positive Psychology Approach
The efficiency and effectiveness of an organization transforming inputs into valuable outputs, often measured by the quantity and quality of work.
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Competitiveness in Colombian MSMEs: Analysis of Best Business Practices
Effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output (goods, products, services) per unit of input (labor, materials, equipment) (De Been, Van der Voordt, & Haynes, 2017).
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A Model for Success in Agribusiness in the Portuguese Context
The result obtained from the resources that have been applied by the enterprise by the agribusiness enterprise.
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Transforming Agriculture With Modern AI: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize Farming
Quantifying the output from crop or livestock production. While production is the process of keeping and managing livestock and growing crops to get outputs. For livestock, productivity is the level of efficiency for instance in producing milk, meat, eggs, wool, pelt and other livestock products. Crop productivity refers to the measure of crop yield per measure of land. Productivity is influenced by several factors such as precipitation, management, and availability of necessary inputs.
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Future of Work Places: A Hybrid Approach
A ratio of output is to inputs within a given time period without compromising on quality.
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Innovation of SMEs and Their Effect on Productivity in Jalisco
Productivity is an economic measure that calculates how many goods and services have been produced for each factor used (worker, capital, time, costs, etc.) during a given period.
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Human Behavior in Telework: A Modality of Work Centered on the Human Being That Promotes Opportunities and Social Integration
The measure of efficiency and production capacity in relation to the resources used. It is related to the quantity of results achieved in relation to the time, effort, resources, and inputs employed in an activity or process. In a business context, productivity is often evaluated in terms of the production of goods or services per unit of time or per worker. It is important to note that productivity is not just about doing more in less time but also about seeking efficiency, quality, and innovation.
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Teleworking: New Challenges and Trends
Ratio between the output volume and the volume of inputs or, in other words, effective production of a unit of analysis during a period, in relation with the resources used for that production. There are several different measures of productivity.
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Academicians Quality of Work Life and Its Influence on Value of Education
Productivity is an economic measure of output per unit of input. Inputs include labor and capital, while output is typically measured in revenues and other gross domestic product (GDP) components such as business inventories.
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Exploring Business Process Innovation towards Intelligent Supply Chains
Innovation means the development of productivity. The innovation in the business processes can lead to the whole industry’s productivity increase at some point.
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The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence
It is a result of planned work that plays role in determining whether the productivity is high or low.
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Innovation of SMEs and Effect on Productivity in Jalisco
Productivity is an economic measure that calculates how many goods and services have been produced for each factor used (worker, capital, time, costs, etc.) during a given period.
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High Performance Teams in a Multigenerational Workforce: An Example From Academia in Mexico
The effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.
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Spirituality at Work: Past, Present, and Future Trends
A measure of personal and organizational performance.
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A Unified Framework of Organizational Perspectives and Knowledge Management and Their Impact on Job Performance
A measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, factory, and system in converting inputs into useful outputs.
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