Work Study: Volume 50 Issue 1

Table of contents

Contingent use of stretch goals: considerations of workflow integration and risk deviation

R. Eugene Hughes

Stretch goals or targets ask an employee to go beyond the possible (and merely difficult) to the impossible. This performance requirement violates the generally accepted criterion…

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Asian management style versus western management theories: a case study in construction project management

Low Sui Pheng, Christopher H.Y. Leong

The Asian financial crisis snowballed in July 1997 following the devaluation of the Thai Baht. This triggered off a chain reaction which led to similar crises in many countries in…

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Continuous observation work sampling and its verification

Cheng‐pin Ho, Elinor S. Pape

Work sampling focuses mainly on determining the proportion of times for a specified category within a predetermined tolerance at a specified statistical risk. Conventional…

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ISSN:

0043-8022

Online date, start – end:

1952 – 2003

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited