Finally, process flexibility (achieved in this case by adjusting workforce skills and processes) allowed Toyota to quickly restore the supply of brake-fluid-proportioning valves (P-valves) after a major disruption.
Adjusting workforce participation by country of qualification can improve estimates of the number of medical school places needed to balance supply with demand.
Adjusting workforce participation by country of qualification should give improved estimates of the number of medical school places that will be needed to balance domestic supply with demand.
The extent to which shorter retention in small, more sparsely settled locations is 'optimal' (that is, all that might be expected in these locations) or 'sub-optimal' (that is, illustrates premature or avoidable turnover that could be adjusted through workforce incentives or interventions), remains a moot point.
Let m ¯ be the immigration-induced percent change in the efficiency units-adjusted size of the workforce, and m i be the percent change in the size of the efficiency units-adjusted workforce in skill group i.
This has helped Dutch companies to adjust their workforce to the demand for labour and has helped unemployed people get back into work.
While many studies suggest that companies use temporary agency work only as a short-term instrument to adjust the workforce in line with demand, recent research has pointed to new developments in employers' use of temporary agency work.
"Rapid changes to the nature of work put a premium on flexibility for firms to adjust their workforce, but also for those workers who benefit from more dynamic labor markets," the draft says.
It might not seem like a bold move in line with what Apple and IBM did, but make no mistake, this is a similar attempt by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to recognize changing market conditions and adjust the workforce to meet those changing conditions.
To minimize the bias, in our regression models, we have adjusted for firms' workforce characteristics that potentially affect output and wages, which were derived from individual-level worker data.
