G.M. and Chrysler, not to mention Ford, which didn't get taxpayer money but benefited indirectly, are profitable, hiring more workers, competing more effectively, gaining market share and building better cars and trucks.
Industrial unrest has broken out sporadically in China for many years but labour activists say the latest cluster of strikes represents a new trend as workers organise more effectively and ask not just for pay rises but structural reforms allowing them to engage in collective bargaining.
In fact, you will be hard pressed to find a policy that does what it sets out to do -- to raise the pay of our lowest wage workers -- more effectively.
Some argue that the tech industry simply isn't creating tools that help workers work more effectively.
These case management tools help extension workers to more effectively manage their relationships and tailor their visits to the farmers' needs.
Global Health Media Project creates online videos that help health workers learn more effectively by seeing basic practices demonstrated in low-resource settings similar to their own.
Using new technologies like 3D spatial binaural audio, gesture interfaces, and super-high-resolution video, we will be able to build incredibly immersive (and relatively inexpensive) experiences for workers to connect more effectively.
Improving non-monetary incentives such as providing them with materials that identify them as community-based health workers (badges, t-shirts, and so on), frequent refresher training, supportive supervision [ 53] and closer links to CHAs, could motivate this group of health workers to collaborate more effectively with CHAs.
Strategies that involve securing adequate staffing, appropriate infrastructure, attractive benefits, supportive work environments, along with professional human resource development practices have shown to allow health workers to respond more effectively to the demands of their jobs, and thus enhance their retention [ 34, 39, 40].
The competencies described in the WEB model could inform the set of competencies and skills for a community health worker to work more effectively with people with chronic disease, especially those with multiple disadvantage.
