Education Level Of Employees Research Articles

The technical efficiency of military industrial enterprises: A civil–military integration perspective

Background: This article takes a look at the technical efficiency of 53 A-share listed companies of Chinese military industrial enterprises in the ‘10 Major Military-industrial Groups’ based on the random Frontier B95 model and the panel data of listed companies from 2010 to 2015. Objectives: The research put forward five influencing factors, namely ownership structure, asset turnover, enterprise size, staff education and regional differences. Method: The article proposed five hypotheses to measure the technical efficiency of the military and civilian enterprises. Results: The results showed a gradual increase in the technical efficiency of sampled military industrial enterprises, even though the overall results were low with a decreasing scale income. There was a positive correlation between ownership concentration and the technical efficiency of military industrial enterprises, but not significant. However, the proportion of state-owned large shareholders and the technical efficiency of military industrial enterprises had a negative correlation and were not significant. Asset turnover ratio, firm size, employee education level and regional differences correlated positively with the technical efficiency of military industrial enterprises, and their influence was seen to be very important. Conclusion: The conclusion of the study provides an empirical basis for further studies enhancing the technical efficiency of military industrial enterprises in China.

Electronic Educational Resources As Means of Formation of the Foreign-Language Professionally Focused Competence of Future Philologists

In the current conditions of society development, the most in demand are the educational level of employees, their professionalism, learning ability, creativity, and high intelligence. This has led to a trend of increasing requirements for graduates of higher education institutions. Taking into account that recent years have been marked by international integration, the quality of training of future philologists should ensure correspondence of all training aspects to the requirements of the applicable standard of education, an adequate level of foreign language command to the extent necessary for the free general and professional communication, the ability to freely navigate in the information field of foreign sources. This study reveals new perspectives and opportunities for the use of electronic educational resources (EER) in education, which allow the use of such effective tools as interactive means, multimedia, communication and productivity. In the process of training, opportunities arise to take advantage of information technologies, including electronic educational resources: electronic textbooks, multimedia, sites, portals, UDACITY and Udemy platforms; Web-2.0 services, new smart technologies, wiki technologies, podcasts, and webinars

PENGARUH TINGKAT PENDIDIKAN TERHADAP PRESTASI KERJA KARYAWAN


 Indonesia Power UP Suralaya Cilegon as one of the State-Owned Enterprises currently employs as many as 733 people with various expertise and education levels.With the large number of employees/worker involved in the company PT. Indonesia Power UP Suralaya Cilegon, researchers are interested in reviewing or knowing whether there is a significant influence on the level of education on the work performance of employees in the company. The method used in this research is descriptive method with quantitative analysis. The sample in this study were 110 employees from 733 employees of PT Indonesia Power UpSuralayaCilegon. Data collection techniques used are questionnaire methods. The data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis technique with the hypothesis test used is the t test and F test. Based on the results of the study it can be concluded that (1) The results of the calculation of the percentage of employee education level taken based on the respondent's overall answer of 80% which shows that most of the employees in the company have high school / vocational education. 2) With a significance of 5% it can be obtained the price of r table 1.661. It turns out that r count is greater than r table (0.276> 1.661), so the Hypothesis is rejected so that the Education Level does not have a significant effect on Employee Performance. Judging from the results of the output on the analysis of the calculation of the t test above, it can be concluded that the variable level of employee education does not affect employee performance. This is because the value of t count> t table (-2.240 <1.661) or significance <0.05 (0.029 <0.05) so the hypothesis is rejected.

Open innovation and firm performance: Evidence from the Chinese mechanical manufacturing industry

Abstract This paper studies how human capital can affect the relationship between open innovation and the financial performance of firms. The results demonstrate that there is an inversed U-shape relationship between open innovation and firm profitability. We also indicate how human capital (both quality and structure) will differently moderate above relationship: generally, higher the education level of employees will amplify the positive effect of open innovation, but for production-oriented firms, such argument does not hold; in technology-oriented firms, as the ratio of technical staff to production staff increases, the financial performance of firms improves as a result of the implementation of an open innovation strategy. However, in production-oriented firms, the moderating role is negative.

Analisis Strategi Pengelolaan Kualitas Kehidupan Kerja Dalam Meningkatkan Kinerja Karyawan UD. ZIDAN COLLECTION TAYU-PATI

This study aims to analyze the strategy of quality management of UD working life. Zidan Collection in improving employee performance and what factors become supporters and obstacles in improving the performance of UD employees. Zidan Collection. This research includes field research and case study with descriptive qualitative approach. Primary data sources are sourced from direct interviews with UD convection leaders and employees. Zidan Collection, while secondary sources are obtained through documents owned by UD. Zidan Collection. Data collection techniques in this study are interviews, observation and documentation. Data analysis techniques with data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawing. Test the credibility of the data with extension of observation, increasing perseverance, and triangulation. This research resulted that, firstly strategy of quality management of UD working life. Zidan Collection in improving the performance of employees is done through the development of quality aspects of work life, namely: open interactive communication, employee involvement in conflict resolution through deliberation, career development by providing training, employment participation by involving all employees in the meeting, build employees pride with undertake recreation once a year and provide THR, appropriate compensation by awarding bonuses to achievers, environmental safety by providing a clean, safe and comfortable working environment with workplace music, work safety by making all employees as permanent employees, as well as occupational health given in the form of including all employees as members of BPJS employment. Second, the factors that become supporters in improving the performance of UD employees. Zidan Collection is the provision of bonuses to employees, the existence of insurance for employees, and the availability of facilities that support employee comfort in work. While the inhibiting factor is the level of employee education is still low and most employees are housewives.

The existence of Listeria monocytogenes in a cattle slaughterhouse and identification of serotypes by mPCR

This study was carried out to investigate the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in samples obtained from a slaughterhouse in Samsun, Turkey. A total of 300 samples (25 samples per month) analyzed by Immunomagnetic Separation (IMS) based on conventional culture method. Then isolates were verified and serotyped by PCR using specific primers. According to the analysis, a total of 18 isolates were identified as L. monocytogenes. Distribution of these isolates were as; 5 isolates (serotype 1/2b or 3b) from 1 cattle carcass, 5 isolates (serotype 1/2b or 3b) from 1 knife, 2 isolates (serotype 4b or 4d, 4e) from 1 knife sharpener, 5 isolates (serotype 1/2a or 3a) from 1 floor sample, 1 isolate (serotype 1/2a or 3a) from 1 cowhide, respectively. As a result, carcasses are considered to pose a hazard to public health due to L. monocytogenes contamination. The development of slaughterhouse conditions and production technology, improving the education level of employees in food safety issues, prevention of contamination of foodborne pathogens to carcasses in slaughterhouses and implementation of effective sanitation methods should be provided

Education and welfare program compliance: Firm-level evidence from a pension reform in China

This study examines how firms with heterogeneous human capital quality respond differently to a welfare policy shock. In 2002, China expanded pension mandates from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to private enterprises. Based on data covering all median and large manufacturers in China (around 250,000 firms), we find that their compliance rates varied widely across firms and increased in the average education level of employees. Utilizing these heterogeneous responses at the firm level, we estimate that the pension reform might have increased the return to education of employees by 8.75%. To address endogeneity in firms' human capital levels, we exploit the historical scale of local university as an instrumental variable. Moreover, we use SOEs as a control group, which was not directly affected by the policy shock. We find our empirical estimates robust to both measures.

Political openness and the growth of small and medium enterprises: empirical evidence from transition economies

This paper examines the growth determinants of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in transition and emerging economies, with a specific focus on the growth effects of political openness. Our findings indicate that product and process innovation, foreign market exposure through exports, providing training programs for employees, and the education level of employees are important growth factors for SMEs in transition economies. We also find that democracy and political openness have an adverse impact on the growth prospect of SMEs in transition economies. On the other hand, the negative effect of political openness on firm growth is decreasing as the proportion of the firm’s labor force with a university degree increases—a finding suggesting that the collective bargaining of low-skilled workers may hinder the growth of small firms in transition economies.

ANALISIS FAKTOR TINGKAT PENDIDIKAN DAN KOMPETENSI SUMBER DAYA MANUSIA TERHADAP PRODUKTIVITAS KERJA KARYAWAN PADA PT. TRAKTOR NUSANTARA CABANG LAMPUNG

Achievement of company goals, PT. Traktor Nusantara often faces problems, where from within and from outside the company. One of the problems that comes from within the company in relation to human resources is the level of work productivity of employees who are still far from expectation. This is allegedly caused by the level of employee education that has not been in accordance with the function of office, in addition to the competence of employees who have not been in accordance with the field of work. This study aims to determine the influence of education level and competence on employee productivity. The sample used is 22 employees. Data collection techniques with questionnaires, documentation and observation. Data analysis with qualitative and quantitative analysis methods with the help of statistical tools SPSS application for linear regression model calculation. The results showed that the level of education has a positive influence on the productivity of employees of PT. Traktor Nusantara. The amount of influence of education level variable to productivity based on test of determination is equal to 38,1%. Competence influence on work productivity of employees of PT. Traktor Nusantara with contribution of 19.1%. The level of education and competence together have a positive influence and able to explain 38.2% of the changes in work productivity, while the remaining 4.7% sebesat is another variable outside the study.

Education in the system of today's employee values

Establishing the new society is accompanied by a global intellectualization of the entire economic system influencing the development of information, scientific and innovative branches of the indusry. The key factors of the society develpment are information and knowledge. An important quality of a modern employee is the ability for continuous training. Currently, the interest to education has significantly increased as well as the demand for education and the educational level of employees. Education is one of the most vital values, meeting the natural needs of humans in the knowledge of the external world and themselves. The growth of social demand for education in the evolution of social development has led to the gradual transformation of the elite educational institutions into the institutions for everyone. For most people nowadays, higher education has become not only sustainable, but one of the most significant values. The successful development of knowledge-based economy could be provided by the employees not only having a high degree, but having a desire for the continuous lifelong knowledge development.

INTELECTUAL CAPITAL IN PUBLIC ZAKAH INSTITUTION ON ZAKAH MANAGEMENT

<pre>Indonesia is the biggest moslem country, it has chance to reduction poverty through zakah. One of the zakah intitution is BAZ (Public Zakah Intitution). The purpose in study is to know about intelectual capital in public zakah Institution. Intelectual capital is important in zakah management. It consist of human capital, structural capital and relational capital.Research methodology is empirically qualitative research. The result of this study show that intelectual capital is not maximized. Although the level of employee education is high but still lower innovation and creativity still low. Bazda In Surakarta is the temporal institution in Ministry of Religion. </pre><p> </p><strong>Keywords:</strong><em>Intellectual Capital</em>, Pengelolaan Zakat

Association between psychosocial work environment and workplace bullying among office workers

To assess the prevalence of bullying in companies and health care center and identify the association between psychosocial environment and workplace bullying. A total of 847 employees at in business building companies and 146 employees at one community health service center were invited to this survey by cluster sampling during October to December 2014, using anonymous questionnaires including the general demographic information, job characteristics, job stress core scale, the social capital scale, and NAQ-R. The rate of targets of bullying in the two kinds of workplaces were 13.1% and 5.6% respectively. Workplace bullying was associated with employee's education level(χ(2)=11.17, P=0.019)and the area his or her families live in(χ(2)=5.66, P=0.017). In addition, workplace bullying was significantly associated with psychosocial work environment. Job demand was positively correlated with workplace bullying (OR=2.24, 95% CI=1.34~3.74), and workplace social support was negatively associated with workplace bullying (OR= 0.33, 95% CI=0.18~0.60). Workplace bullying can be reduced by adjusting certain working conditions that negatively affect employees who are susceptible to being bullied, giving their individual and job characteristic. Moreover, workplace bullying could also be reduced if job demands are limited and job control and social capital are increased.

"Firm Ownership, Employee Education, and Firm Performance in Transition Economy"

This study examines how firm performance in transition economies can be impacted by firm ownership structure and education level of employees. Ownership structure is measured by three dummy variabl...

Comparing Occupational Stress Level in Employees of Public and Private Sectors along Age and Gender

In today’s uncertain economy, the best performing employers know that taking their employees’ pulse and linking it in to their business goals will help organizations succeed and put them at a competitive advantage. On the other side, due to today’s competitive era, role of employees in any organization, are more complex and this complexity may increase their level of stress in their lives, in the organization. The present study was aimed to focus to measure level of occupational stress in employees of two different types of business communities called public and private sector organizations. For the present study, total sample was taken as 240 employees from public and private sector organizations. The age range of employees was 22 years to 41 years. Educational level of employees was minimum graduation. Middle managerial level employees were the sample of the study. Incidental sampling technique was used to collect data through standardized self report inventory, Occupational Stress Index (OSI). The results showed that employees of public and private sectors significantly not found differ in their occupational stress level. Impact of age and gender was also not found on occupational stress.

Pengaruh Tingkat Pendidikan, Usia, Dan Peringkat Penggajian (Grading) Terhadap Kinerja Pegawai Kantor Wilayah Direktorat Jenderal Perbendaharaan Provinsi Kalimantan Barat

This study aimed to determine the effect of education level, age, rank and payroll (grading) on employee performance DJPB Regional Office of West Kalimantan Province. The method used is descriptive method, while data collection technique consists of observation, interviews, and questionnaires. Object of this research is all that exists in the Regional Office DJPB West Kalimantan which amounts to 67 employees. The analysis used was the Anova test and Independent Sample T Test. The results of this study showed that the mean performance is 104.31. For the ANOVA test of the level of education shows that F count larger than F table (4.313> 3.140) which means that H0 is rejected and it can be concluded that the average performance for the level of education is not the same or there is a difference. As for the differences found in employee education level education level S2 S2 which differ significantly with education level below the S1 and S1. For the ANOVA test for age showed that the F table Bigger than F count (3.140> 0.658) which means that H0 is accepted and it can be concluded that the average performance for the same level or age is no difference. To test for independent samples t grade indicates that the arithmetic ≤ t table ≤ t, ie -2.281 <1.997 <2.281, which means that H0 is accepted and it can be concluded that there is no difference between the average performance level of high grade and low grade.

Management practices of Australian manufacturing firms: why are some firms more innovative?

Whilst many studies have focused on the adoption of individual or sets of innovative management practices (e.g. lean production), fewer studies have evaluated a diverse set of management practices and firm contextual factors which may limit (or enable) the accumulation of groups of innovations in organisations. The Australian manufacturing sector is a novel setting to investigate such issues due to, among other reasons, a protracted decline of the competitive position of the sector. In this paper, we use a data-set from the Australian government funded management practices benchmarking project which was part of the World Management Survey and empirically evaluate why some companies have more innovative management practices than others. The conceptual model developed draws mainly on innovation diffusion theory and prior empirical findings. We find that (1) firms which adopt clusters of better management practices have greater performance; and (2) several firm characteristics explain the adoption of better management practices, such as education level of employees and managers, firm size, ownership by a multinational firm, and diffused ownership structure. The study has practical implications for policy-makers and stakeholders who are interested in supporting the adoption of better management practices by firms to enhance productivity in the manufacturing sector.

Top management demographic characteristics and company performance

Purpose– The importance of the performance of a firm and the essential role played by the management in their accomplishment has been discussed and recognised by many researchers from Drucker to Upper Echelon Theory. Nonetheless, currently, anybody has been able to determine the precious and reliable parameters which let the firm achieve required-level performance. The confusion around this objective is still sufficient and the controversial has being growing widely over time, being the findings achieved contradictory, insufficient, imprecise and unreliable. Regarding the demographical literature findings focus on the premises previous related to Upper Echelon Theory. The purpose of this paper is to go further and try to test how, not only the level, but also the diversity of constructs like top management teams (TMT)'s demographic characteristics influence the firm performance accomplished by the managers by applying a Hierarchical Linear Regression Model.Design/methodology/approach– Based on primary data from two Spanish databases – SABI, CNMV – and secondary data, a sample size of 147 TMTs in large companies from 18 industries sector with headquarters in Spain over a four years period (2004-2007) were obtained. The analysis focused on the total TMT for each firm. To test the relationship between the company performance and the demographic constructs, a more recent methodology based on hierarchical linear models (HLMs) using a longitudinal dataset of multinational big firms with headquarters in Spain was applied.Findings– After applying the statistical techniques the results show a partial confirmation of the hypotheses formulated in the theoretical model proposed. First, the analysis evidences that company size is both highly correlated with TMT size and their demographic variables in terms of diversity. Second, the HLM shows that TMT's education-level diversity has a negative and significant impact on corporate performance and no significant effects for functionality and education background diversity have been found. Based on the accomplished findings, organisations appear to be more concerned about the employee's education level rather than their education background. Moreover, the model further supports that companies seem to be more aware of industry experience diversity than functionality diversity, also confirming a greater influence of the more international experience diversity of TMT on corporate performance.Originality/value– This study offers a significant contribution not only by specifying a three-level hierarchical regression models regarding diverse approaches to measure the performance variable as dependent variable but also by considering as predictors not only the level of the demographic variables but also their diversity. This knowledge is relevant for entrepreneurial purposes since it highlights the achievement of high performance. The results allow us to explain which constructs influence the achievement of firm performance. Thus, this knowledge could be relevant to the entrepreneurs to encourage the firm survival and growth. Furthermore, focused on an ambitious purpose, it reveals the parameters needed to achieve to get the optimums performance level. Hence, the present study contributes an attempt to advance the literature on TMT composition by applying multi-level theory given the nested structure of the data set. The paper is one of few studies which apply panel data to analyse the influences of TMT characteristics on corporate performance and one of the first focused on Spanish entrepreneurial context.

The influence of the structure of employees on sensory quality of restaurants' food

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to determine the sensory quality of food in restaurants by professional food evaluators and to research the impact of education, age and number of employees on the quality of food. Design/methodology/approach – In the first phase five trained food tasters evaluated the sensory quality of food. In the second phase, the analysis of the structure of employees was done by establishing their level of education, age and number of employees. In the third phase the regression and correlation analysis was done with the aim to establish the impact of the level of education, age and number of employees on the sensory quality of food. Findings – The sensory evaluation has shown that the evaluated food is of moderate quality. Correlation matrix has shown that the education level of employees has a high impact on the sensory quality of food. There is a correlation between the number of employees, their age and their education. Practical implications – Obtained results are the indicators of the quality of food in restaurants in the region and they can serve for the improvement of quality. They have shown that education and staff training can contribute to a better quality of food. Established methodology can also contribute to the practical evaluation of quality. Originality/value – This paper is reflected on the specific application of methodology of the sensory analysis of food in restaurants. The paper pointed to the impact of employees on the sensory quality of food by statistical methods. Statistical results which point to the great impact of the level of education of employees on the sensory quality of food in restaurants are particularly valuable.

The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success

Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance. The entrepreneur's human capital, though, is only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture. In this paper we will analyze to what extent the education levels of other (potential) stakeholders affect the entrepreneur's performance. The education level of consumers may shape the demand function for an entrepreneur's output, whereas the education level of employees may affect the entrepreneur's productivity and thereby shape her supply function. Based on this, we hypothesize that the performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education level but also by the education level of the population. We find empirical support for this hypothesis using an eight year (1994–2001) panel of labor market participants in the EU-15 countries. An implication of our finding is that entrepreneurship and higher education policies should be considered in tandem with each other.

Outsourcing and firm performance—a comparative study of Swiss and Greek firms

This article aims at analyzing (i) the factors determining the firms' propensity to outsource various processes (production of intermediate products, production of final products, R&D activities, ICT activities), and (ii) the impact of outsourcing on firms' innovation performance, as well as labor productivity. The integral investigation of the determining factors, as well as the impact of outsourcing on innovation and productivity based on the same data in a comparative setting (Switzerland versus Greece) are important new elements and contributions of this study to the existing empirical literature. It has been concluded that in both countries more innovative firms (R&D) were stronger inclined to outsourcing activities than less innovative ones, whereas on the contrary, the educational level of employees and the labor cost showed no effect on outsourcing in both countries. Also, the intensity of ICT use and organizational aspects, especially those related to the formal structure of workplace organization, were relevant for the Swiss firms but not for the Greek firms. With respect to the impact of outsourcing on performance, it has been concluded that it tends to enhance innovation, particularly process innovation, but only weakly productivity (at least directly). Copyright 2013 The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.