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Definition of Overstaffing
1. overstaff [v] - See also: overstaff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstaffing
Literary usage of Overstaffing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inflation and Growth in China: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Beijing edited by Manuel Guitian, Robert Mundell (1998)
"overstaffing, underutilization of capital resources, and overstocking of inventories
are all characteristics of state enterprises.19 Moreover, ..."
2. Agricultural R&d in the Developing World: Too Little, Too Late? by Philip G. Pardey, Julian M. Alston, Roley Piggott (2006)
"The major (and interrelated) problems currently confronting most of the research
institutes are overstaffing, the heavy financial burden imposed by retirees ..."
3. Public Housing: New Assessment System Holds Potential for Evaluating Performance by Stanley J. Czerwinski (2003)
"... practices led to overstaffing, and some of the personnel who were hired did
not have the necessary qualifications, according to HUD and SFHA officials. ..."
4. OECD Economic Surveys: Slovak Republic by OECD Staff (2005)
"... the introduction of skill-and performance-based pay is particularly important
but it is constrained by the budgetary burden of overstaffing. ..."
5. Reviews of National Policies for Educationby Centre for Co-operation with Non-members by Centre for Co-operation with Non-members (2001)
"The average ratio of teachers to other personnel is only slightly over one,
indicating that overstaffing is attributable to the large number of non-teaching ..."
6. Africa South of the Sahara: The Challenge to Western Security by Lewis H. Gann, Peter Duignan (1981)
"... inefficiency, overstaffing, and poor worker morale. The transportation system,
heavily dependent in the past on cooperation with Rhodesia, ..."
7. The Fractured Continent: Latin America in Close-Up by Willard Leon Beaulac (1980)
"The more jobs he finds for deserving politicians and their friends the higher he
may be regarded in government. overstaffing is a chronic defect of state ..."
8. Czech Republic by Oecd (2003)
"... hoc system risks making the elimination of overstaffing in either vulnerable
private firms or public enterprises with excessive employment very costly. ..."
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