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This study leveraged the social exchange theory to explore the influence of the knowledge management cycle on employee engagement, job satisfaction, and organizational culture within the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA). The structural equation modeling...

Job cycle time is the cycle time of a job or the time required to complete a job. Prediction of job cycle time is a critical task for a semiconductor fabrication factory. A predictive model must forecast job cycle time to pursue sustainable developme...

This study empirically examines the synergistic negative effect of two kinds of job demand on job-related affective wellbeing (JAW) and the accelerating effects of cynicism in the negative relationships between job demands and JAW using a sample of 2...

This article is a summary of the main findings of the study “Riding towards the green economy: cycling and green jobs”, which was developed in the context of the Transport, Health and Environment pan-European Programme (THE PEP). It builds on previou...

A monitoring system (MS) has been used to monitor products’ job cycles. It is indicated that by incorporating the job cycle into the product’s life cycle, warrantors can devise novel warranty models and consumers can define and model rand...

Job Crafting has been proposed as a new perspective, consisting in a bottom-up strategy to achieve person–job fit by emphasizing employees’ active participation and spontaneous change in job design, which is specifically adequate for olde...

Using monitored job cycles to design and model random maintenance strategies for ensuring life-cycle reliability has been extensively researched. The reliability heterogeneity over the life cycle has been ignored universally in this type of strategy....

Driven by digital technologies, it is possible that high-tech equipment management personnel use monitored job cycles to ensure products’ operation and maintenance over their life cycle. By means of monitored job cycles, this paper designs two...

Hiring workers takes resources. Firms may require funding before they can expend resources on recruiting workers. The search for credit reduces funds that firms can allocate to job creation. In the presence of such costs, a given change in productivi...

The urgent need to curb climate change calls for an energy transition to cleaner, more resilient and sustainable solutions. Combined designs of energy storage systems and demand management strategies are becoming more frequent in the literature. Howe...

Okun’s law is formulated as the ratio between GDP and unemployment (UE): β = f(GDP/UE). It is used to investigate the relations between output and labor input across regions or across business cycles. Based on results by James D. Hamilton we replaced...

Our earlier work identified social issues of stakeholders who are highly exposed to poor social performance in the current waste management system (WMS) of Kabul city, Afghanistan. The present work builds on earlier findings to elaborate four alterna...

In the context of deindustrialization and desurbanization, Romanian cities are confronted with issues related to natural demographic decline and out-migration, inducing apparently opposite, but complementary phenomena: slow-burn shrinkage and urban s...

Cycle time reduction plays an important role in improving the competitiveness and sustainability of a semiconductor manufacturer. However, in the past, cycle time reduction was usually unplanned owing to the lack of a systematic and quantitative proc...

Cycle time management plays an important role in improving the performance of a wafer fabrication factory. It starts from the estimation of the cycle time of each job in the wafer fabrication factory. Although this topic has been widely investigated,...

Data mining (DM) and machine learning (ML) are widely used in production planning and scheduling. Their application to production time estimation leads to improved planning and scheduling accuracy, resulting in increased overall efficiency. Small and...

Air traffic controllers (ATCOs) make a significant contribution to ensuring flight safety, making this profession a highly stressful job globally. Job demands–resources (JDR) theory proposes a health impairment process stemming from job demand...

The purpose of this paper is to examine perceptions of job insecurity among employees, applying a panel model that allows us to account for the business cycle. In addition, the data will enable the comparison of two measures of job insecurity, one wi...

Previous studies have shown an association between job demands and burnout in medical staff during the pandemic. However, these studies have ignored the possibility of loss cycle occurrence during the crisis. In order to address this gap, the aim of...

An innovative classification and back-propagation-network tree (CABPN tree) approach is proposed in this study to estimate the cycle time of a job in a wafer fabrication factory, which is one of the most important tasks in controlling the wafer fabri...

Difficulties with interpersonal communication experienced by individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) significantly contribute to their underrepresentation in the workforce as well as problems experienced while in employment. Consistently, it...

Building on studies on the impact of the Great Recession on the occupational and skill structure of employment, this article investigates developments over the last business cycle (2002–2007 and 2007–2011) in 36 manufacturing and service industries o...

The most recent version of the job demands-resources (JD–R) theory proposes that demanding working conditions and employee strain form a self-perpetuating loss cycle. By acknowledging that such cycles are detrimental for both employees and organizati...

Green and low carbon automated production has become a research hotspot. In this paper, the AGV transport resource constraint, machine layout and job setup time have been integrated into the background of a flexible job shop. From a whole life-cycle...

This paper summarises the research findings of the HyFlowJobShop research project. The aim of the research project is to combine the organisation structure of the flow principle with the principle of job shop production since traditional organisation...

This study examined the factors affecting the fear of job loss, which is characteristic of various phases of an economic crisis. We used a representative sample of data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey-Higher School of Economics for 200...

This study examines the impact of workload demands on mental distress and job retention among healthcare workers (HCWs) handling mass fatalities during the COVID-19 pandemic. We utilized a cross-sectional validated survey to collect self-reported dat...

With the development of Industry 4.0, discrete manufacturing systems are accelerating their transformation toward flexibility and intelligence to meet the market demand for various products and small-batch production. The flexible flow shop (FFS) par...

The sustainability of a manufacturing process can be measured by three main factors which impact both ecological and financial constraints. These factors are the energy required to achieve a specific job, the material utilized for the job, and the ti...

This paper examines the relationships between a range of well-being factors and two commonly used subjective well-being measures—happiness and life satisfaction. Data from the second cycle of the Quality of Life (QoL) Survey in Abu Dhabi were u...

This article presents a comparative accessibility study between a real city and its redraft as a Garden City. The benchmarking methodology involves defining and evaluating a location-based accessibility indicator in a GIS environment for the city of...

Information concerning the home and workplace of residents is the basis of analyzing the urban job-housing spatial relationship. Traditional methods conduct time-consuming user surveys to obtain personal job and housing location information. Some new...

The implementation of lean manufacturing to increase productivity often neglects the impact on the environment and the well-being of employees. This can result in negative consequences such as environmental harm and poor employee satisfaction. To add...

Background: Scientific research on fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) workers has identified a gap in understanding the dynamics of job stress parameters among forest workers throughout the shift cycle. Methods: This study investigated the relationship between ps...

At present, automated material processing systems have been adopted by numerous high-tech enterprises, which mainly include Rail Guided Vehicles (RGVs) and CNC Machines. However, in the actual operation process, RGVs are generally scheduled according...

The goal of manufacturing scheduling is to allocate a set of jobs to the machines in the shop so these jobs are processed according to a given criterion (or set of criteria). Such criteria are based on properties of the jobs to be scheduled (e.g., th...

Machine scheduling problems associated with semiconductor manufacturing operations (SMOs) are one of the major research topics in the scheduling literature. Lots of papers have dealt with different variants of SMOs’ scheduling problems, which a...

From a positive psychological standpoint, access to decent work extends beyond fulfilling economic needs: it is a fundamental human right. While significant efforts have been made to examine the societal implications of decent work, surprisingly litt...

Forecasting the cycle time of each job is a critical task for a factory. However, recent studies have shown that it is a challenging task, even with state-of-the-art deep learning techniques. To address this challenge, a selectively fuzzified back pr...

The efficiency and quality of the manufacturing industry are greatly influenced by production scheduling, which makes it a crucial aspect. A well-designed production scheduling scheme can significantly enhance manufacturing efficiency and reduce ente...

Muscle fatigue has proven to be a main factor in developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Taking small breaks or performing stretching routines during a work shift might reduce workers’ fatigue. Therefore, our objective was to explore...

Industry 4.0 provides a tremendous potential of data from the work floor. For manufacturing companies, these data can be very useful in order to support assembly operators. In literature, a lot of contributions can be found that present models to des...

The rates of shift work outside of daylight hours have increased in recent years, and nighttime shift work is now considered a potential carcinogenic occupational exposure. Light at night exposure, lower melatonin production, and the production of st...

As bioeconomy strategies strive to integrate industrial sectors for achieving innovative materials alternative to the ones produced from non-renewable resources, the development of monitoring systems and tools to assess the implementation of such val...

Cellular manufacturing systems are widely used due to their advantageous capability of combining the flexibility of the job-shop and the productivity of the flow-shop. In recent years, the reduction of the product life cycle, variation in demand prod...

Cyclic scheduling is of vital importance in a repetitive discrete manufacturing environment. We investigate scheduling in the context of general cyclic job shops with blocking where there are no intermediate buffers between the machines. We also cons...

Walking and cycling are not only frequently-used modes of transport but also popular physical activities. They are beneficial to traffic congestion mitigation, air pollution reduction, and public health promotion. Hence, examining and comparing the b...

Teacher professional development (PD) programs ensure quality education, and quality education is the basis for sustainable development. However, the non-participation of mathematics teachers in PD still represents a tough challenge for several schoo...

Cities at all stages of development need to provide jobs, food and services for their people. There is no formula that can unilaterally be applied in all urban environments to achieve this. The complex interaction of social, economic and ecological c...

This paper reviews actual sustainability assessments in the construction sector to define whether and how a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is applied and interpreted in this sector today. This industry has large shares in global energy (...