The dark side of an operations researcher. Or how operations research can be a funny subject. Wanna join me?.
This book, containing a range of case studies, will be a powerful supportive tool for implementing improvements in the workplace, illustrating that improving Health and Safety can actually save companies money.
AOR is preparing a special issue on Efficiency and Productivity: Theory and Application.
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I’m currently working, re-finishing better said, a paper on the productivity of the Cultural and Leisure Sector. What are my chances of ending it sooner rather than later?. Don’t know! I’ve got the answers to the referees, but still confused…
Malmquist should be proud of himself, since these indexes were named on his honour. Sorry, I should’ve said I’m using Productivity Malmquist Indexes. Just take a look to the plethora of alternative decompositions of them in order to segregate productivity change from efficiency change, technical change, technical efficiency change, scale efficiency, product-mix change, and so on.
I’m reading avidly some papers on the matter (some from the 20th volume of the Journal of Productivity Analysis) and hopefully I will finish it sooner than I thought.
Well…
Carrying on with the Taylor’s biography reading, plus some other books I’ve being turning the pages of, I’ve just arrived to an interesting abstract of the last millennium labour productivity history:
1) At the beginning men were machines.
2) Then, machines helped men.
3) Afterwards, machines enslaved men.
4) Finally, men and machines have learned to cooperate.
Until when…?.
Have you ever heard of “scientific management”?. Do you know who Frederick W Taylor was?. Well, you have heard of Henry Ford and the Fordism, so I can tell you he was an amateur compared to Mr Taylor, the father of the infinite search for the efficiency.
Robert Kanigel (author of ‘Apprentice to Genius’ and ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’, and a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist) has recently published a brilliant biography of Mr Taylor (worth your money).
A freebie: Chapter 1 excerpt.
Keep the productivity up, catch up with the efficiency, rule the world. Mr Taylor would be proud of YOU!.
