An Empirical Examination Of Management Control Systems In Just-In-Time Manufacturing

Proponents of JIT techniques often argue that Japanese manufacturing techniques are among the best in the world. On the other hand, critiques have called the JIT manufacturing techniques “management by stress” and that they are often associated with high work intensity, stress, and fatigue. Prompted by some recent findings, organizational theorists began to question whether these new work practices will have a sustaining effect on performance. Consistent with the social technical systems theory, this study suggests that unless complimentary changes also occur in other related systems within an organization, the perceived productivity gain of a new work system may not be realized. Findings provide some support for the hypotheses tested. For example, results show by itself JIT does not lead to performance gains. Similarly, findings show that incentive pay or extrinsic motivation per se is not associated with better manufacturing performance. Instead, results show JIT interacts with performance goals to produce lower manufacturing costs only when incentive pay is used. For plants using fixed pay, however, manufacturing costs are a decreasing function of performance goals but a marginal increasing function of JIT

Discutindo a educação ambiental no cotidiano escolar: desenvolvimento de projetos na escola formação inicial e continuada de professores

A presente pesquisa buscou discutir como a Educação Ambiental (EA) vem sendo trabalhada, no Ensino Fundamental e como os docentes desta escola compreendem e vem inserindo a EA no cotidiano escolar., em uma escola estadual do município de Tangará da Serra/MT, Brasil. Para tanto, realizou-se entrevistas com os professores que fazem parte de um projeto interdisciplinar de EA na escola pesquisada. Verificou-se que o projeto da escola não vem conseguindo alcançar os objetivos propostos por: desconhecimento do mesmo, pelos professores; formação deficiente dos professores, não entendimento da EA como processo de ensino-aprendizagem, falta de recursos didáticos, planejamento inadequado das atividades. A partir dessa constatação, procurou-se debater a impossibilidade de tratar do tema fora do trabalho interdisciplinar, bem como, e principalmente, a importância de um estudo mais aprofundado de EA, vinculando teoria e prática, tanto na formação docente, como em projetos escolares, a fim de fugir do tradicional vínculo “EA e ecologia, lixo e horta”.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

Some potential issues of service quality reporting for airlines

Prior studies have examined the value relevance of operating measures in the airline industry. These indicators, however, have been evaluated in isolation. This study adds to the extant literature by investigating the interactive effects of service quality (e.g., on-time arrivals, flight delays, mishandled baggage, and complaints) and aircraft productivity on the firm\u27s future performance as measured by one-quarter-ahead Return on Assets or Return on Sales. Overall, results show that negative factors such as more complaints and more mishandled baggage interact with aircraft productivity to further reduce one-quarter ahead Return on Assets or Return on Sales, with the results of complaints being more pronounced. On the other hand, there is no support for the interaction between on-time arrivals and aircraft productivity. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Comparison of Long-Term Mortality of Patients Aged >= 40 Versus > 40 Years With Acute Myocardial Infarction

10.1016/j.amjcard.2016.05.002AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY1183319-32

Influence of Ethnicity, Age, and Time on Sex Disparities in Long-Term Cause-Specific Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction

10.1161/JAHA.116.003760JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION51

Transverse momentum and pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in pp collisions at (s)\sqrt(s) = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV

Measurements of inclusive charged-hadron transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions are presented for proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector during the LHC commissioning in December 2009. For non-single-diffractive interactions, the average charged-hadron transverse momentum is measured to be 0.46 +/- 0.01 (stat.) +/- 0.01 (syst.) GeV/c at 0.9 TeV and 0.50 +/- 0.01 (stat.) +/- 0.01 (syst.) GeV/c at 2.36 TeV, for pseudorapidities between -2.4 and +2.4. At these energies, the measured pseudorapidity densities in the central region, dN(charged)/d(eta) for |eta| < 0.5, are 3.48 +/- 0.02 (stat.) +/- 0.13 (syst.) and 4.47 +/- 0.04 (stat.) +/- 0.16 (syst.), respectively. The results at 0.9 TeV are in agreement with previous measurements and confirm the expectation of near equal hadron production in p-pbar and pp collisions. The results at 2.36 TeV represent the highest-energy measurements at a particle collider to date