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Workforce
About: Workforce is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 32140 publications have been published within this topic receiving 449850 citations. The topic is also known as: labour force & labor force.
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TL;DR: Policy options include prevention and health promotion, better self-care, increased coordination of care, improved management of hospital admissions and discharges, improved systems of long-term care, and new work and pension arrangements.
529 citations
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30 Mar 1990
TL;DR: Based on a large comparative survey of Japanese and American employees, the authors seeks to explain the greater motivation and commitment of the Japanese workforce, which is attributed to the management and organization of Japanese factories, or to deep-seated Japanese cultural values.
Abstract: Based on a large comparative survey of Japanese and American employees, this book seeks to explain the greater motivation and commitment of the Japanese workforce. Is this attributable to the management and organization of Japanese factories, or to deep-seated Japanese cultural values?
528 citations
TL;DR: The cost associated with performance based work loss or “presenteeism” greatly exceeded the combined costs of absenteeism and medical treatment combined for all chronic conditions studied.
Abstract: Objective:The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and estimate total costs for chronic health conditions in the U.S. workforce for the Dow Chemical Company (Dow).Methods:Using the Stanford Presenteeism Scale, information was collected from workers at five locations on work impair
527 citations
TL;DR: As China deepens its health-care reform, it has the opportunity to build an integrated, cooperative primary health- care system, generating knowledge from practice that can support improvements, and bolstered by evidence-based performance indicators and incentives.
515 citations
TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to describe four directions in which the existing workforce can change: diversification; specialisation and vertical and horizontal substitution, and to discuss the implications of these changes for the workforce.
Abstract: The healthcare professions have never been static in terms of their own disciplinary boundaries, nor in their role or status in society. Healthcare provision has been defined by changing societal expectations and beliefs, new ways of perceiving health and illness, the introduction of a range of technologies and, more recently, the formal recognition of particular groups through the introduction of education and regulation. It has also been shaped by both inter-professional and profession-state relationships forged over time. A number of factors have converged that place new pressures on workforce boundaries, including an unmet demand for some healthcare services; neo-liberal management philosophies and a greater emphasis on consumer preferences than professional-led services. To date, however, there has been little analysis of the evolution of the workforce as a whole. The discussion of workforce change that has taken place has largely been from the perspective of individual disciplines. Yet the dynamic boundaries of each discipline mean that there is an interrelationship between the components of the workforce that cannot be ignored. The purpose of this paper is to describe four directions in which the existing workforce can change: diversification; specialisation and vertical and horizontal substitution, and to discuss the implications of these changes for the workforce.
508 citations