...Productivity measurement Productivity is a measure of output from a production process per unit of input. Productivity is a measure of the effective use of resources, usually expressed as the ratio of output to input. Productivity is the value of outputs produced (Goods & Services) divided y the value of input resources. It is the quantitative relationship between what we produced and the resources used. So in shortly we can say: Productivity = In general sense productivity is an economic measure of efficiency that summarizes the value of outputs relative to the value of inputs used to create them. In economic sense, productivity is a measure of production output per unit of production input. This refers, to the ratio of output and input in the production process. Importance of Productivity 1. Productivity is an important device for comparison of performance for various organizations. 2. Productivity increases the rate of low cost per unit and results in lower price. 3. Education, Research and Development, technology are positively correlated to productivity 4. reduction of poverty 5. It helps companies in measuring their strength and weakness. 6. it helps to know the contribution of different input factor used in conversion process 7. it is an indicator of how well the factors the production are utilized 8. it is an indicator of competitive position of an organization 9. it partially determines the peoples standard of living within a particular...
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...C H A P T E R Operations and Productivity 1 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. The text suggests four reasons to study OM. We want to understand (1) how people organize themselves for productive enterprise, (2) how goods and services are produced, (3) what operations managers do, and (4) this costly part of our economy and most enterprises. 2. Possible responses include: Adam Smith (work specialization/ division of labor), Charles Babbage (work specialization/ division of labor), Frederick W. Taylor (scientific management), Walter Shewart (statistical sampling and quality control), Henry Ford (moving assembly line), Charles Sorensen (moving assembly line), Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (motion study), Eli Whitney (standardization). 3. See references in the answer to question 2. 4. The actual charts will differ, depending on the specific organization the student chooses to describe. The important thing is for students to recognize that all organizations require, to a greater or lesser extent, (a) the three primary functions of operations, finance/accounting, and marketing; and (b) that the emphasis or detailed breakdown of these functions is dependent on the specific competitive strategy employed by the firm. 5. The answer to this question may be similar to that for question 4. Here, however, the student should be encouraged to utilize a more detailed knowledge of a past employer and indicate on the chart additional information such as the number of persons employed to perform the...
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...have been duly acknowledged. I hereby verify this research has not been submitted in substance for any other degree. Signature:ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Date: ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Supervisor Name: Mr. Iqbal Singh Kaundali Signature:ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Date: ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ iii APPLICATION TO CONDUCT RESEARCH PAPER PART A: STUDENT PARTICULAR 1. Name Student’s Number : Nowier Mohammed Al-Anzi : 51060418 PART B: PARTICULARS ABOUT THE PROJECT 1. Title of the project : Workplace Environment and Its Impact on Employee Performance : To determine the impact of work environment on employees’ productivity 2. Research Objective 3. Proposed Research Method Research Design : Questionnaire PART C: FUCULITY'S INPUTS 1. Topic chosen: Acceptable/Not acceptable: 2. Suggested supervisor for the student: Mr. Iqbal Singh iv Kaundali RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM Project Paper Title: Workplace Environment and Its Impact...
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...Workshop One: Productivity Juan Gonzalez Ana G. Mendez University MANA-340 Professor: Ramon Rondon 07/24/12 Table of Content: 1. Introduction. 2. Productivity definition. 3. How to measure productivity. 4. Labor productivity of employees vs. managerial productivity 5. Conclusion. Introduction: By way of introduction of this subject is to understand how we define productivity, how we measure it according to the efficiency in the making process, and factors which influence to increase it according to that goal that are pursue for its wide application spectrum. The objective of this research is focused on reaching an answer in which can be shown that labor productivity is essential, but productivity management is the key to the productive development of any industry. The concept of productivity is seem as a factor that determine the efficiency of an individual, equipment, industry, system, etc. to convert efforts and participation into useful amount produced. Productivity is measured dividing average of amount produced per period by the total costs of resources like capital, personal, materials and energy implemented in a period of time that determine the cost efficiency. We have to develop strategies that would improve productivity of the employees at the workplace. Some factors influence in the employee productivity which are: Accountability, which mean that each employee is responsible for their actions and decisions that either...
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...Productivity measurement Productivity is a measure of output from a production process per unit of input. Productivity is a measure of the effective use of resources, usually expressed as the ratio of output to input. Productivity is the value of outputs produced (Goods & Services) divided y the value of input resources. It is the quantitative relationship between what we produced and the resources used. So in shortly we can say: Productivity = [pic] In general sense productivity is an economic measure of efficiency that summarizes the value of outputs relative to the value of inputs used to create them. In economic sense, productivity is a measure of production output per unit of production input. This refers, to the ratio of output and input in the production process. Importance of Productivity 1. Productivity is an important device for comparison of performance for various organizations. 2. Productivity increases the rate of low cost per unit and results in lower price. 3. Education, Research and Development, technology are positively correlated to productivity 4. reduction of poverty 5. It helps companies in measuring their strength and weakness. 6. it helps to know the contribution of different input factor used in conversion process 7. it is an indicator of how well the factors the production are utilized 8. it is an indicator of competitive position of an organization 9. it partially determines the peoples...
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...MANAGING EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY Week 11 Dr Pieris Chourides Productivity • A measure of performance. • Broadly a ratio of output to input, i.e. comparing amount produced (output) with resources used (input) • Materials, machinery, labour, capital, energy --- a combination • What improvements have there been over the last 50 years in – construction productivity – payroll processing – Car servicing – banking • How do we evaluate productivity levels and identify areas for improvement? Managing Productivity • Productivity – An economic measure of efficiency that summarizes the value of outputs relative to the value of the resources used to produce them. Levels of Productivity • The unit of analysis used to calculate or define: – Aggregate productivity—the total level of productivity for a country. – Industry productivity—the total productivity of all the firms in an industry. – Company productivity—the level of productivity of a single company. – Unit productivity—the productivity level of a unit or department. – Individual productivity—the productivity attained by a single person. Forms of Productivity • Total factor productivity–an overall indicator of how well an organization uses all of its resources (i.e., labor, capital, materials, and energy) to create all of its products and services. Outputs Productivity = Inputs Forms of Productivity • Labor productivity–a partial productivity ratio that uses only one...
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...Productivity One primary responsibility of a manager is to achieve productive use of an organization’s resources. The term productivity is used to describe this. Productivity is an index that measures output (goods and services) relative to the input (labor, materials, energy, and other resources) used to produce it. It is usually expressed as the ratio of output to input. Although productivity is important for all business organizations, it is particularly important for organizations that use a strategy of low cost, because the higher the productivity, the lower the cost of the output. A productivity ratio can be computed for a single operation, a department, an organization, or an entire country. In business organizations, productivity ratios are used for planning workforce requirements, scheduling equipment, financial analysis, and other important tasks. Productivity has important implications for business organizations and for entire nations. In nonprofit organizations, higher productivity means lower costs; for profit-based organizations, productivity is an important factor in determining how competitive a company is. In the case of a nation, the rate of productivity growth is of great importance. Productivity growth is the increase in productivity from one period to the next relative to the productivity in the preceding period. Service productivity is more problematic than manufacturing productivity. In many...
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...potential contamination to the food source of the general populace. Currently the company is equipped to accomplish 12,000 tests per period and has just been requested to increase productivity by 50%. To accomplish this increased workload and still maintain a profit margin, the management staff will need to generate solutions to meet the growing demand. Meeting Increased Demand Smartly BSE Veterinary Service current provides a specialty capability to the meat supplier and farming community. The service provided is the testing and identification of potential disease or infection within the herd. This service is not only vital to the sustainment of healthy farming community but ultimately the elimination of food contamination which could have detrimental affects upon the society which relies upon the food produced. Currently BSE Veterinary Service is equipped to support the testing of 12,000 tests per period. However with the growing demand and difficulties with the beef herd, they have been tasked to increase their services by fifty percent. This has the potential to be a hardship for the company, management team and the employees to not only keep up with production, but ultimately show a positive profit margin. There are many avenues in which the company can tackle this task, but the Rational-Decision Making Model has a potential to resolve their respective dilemma. By using the Rational Decision-Making Model, BSE needs to first identify...
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...Development In this essay about training and development, facts provided about training and demonstrated in development for the employee in the health care system related to education that associated with planning and wealth. In today organizations, managers provide training resources and programs to create a stake in their employee’s performance. In different business managers guide, and strengthen their employees to get the best performance when come to their ability to do their job. However, training, and development for the employees, it usually associated with each component, and with the knowledge of physically training and development. When companies try, training, it is to develop and improve the skills of employees to perform his or her tasks and improve their understanding of the job (Industrial Relations Policy Statement 2008) Everyday health care technology improves and develops the employees with the ability to provide service for their customers. Training and development also plays a vital role in the health care system. Health care corporation; maintain awareness of an employee to identify their learning process by using the technology and resources to develop and understand the concept of his and her strength. In every aspect of education and training, it depends on how useful the training reflects on the organization success of their business. Some businesses have concerns of how to handle or advocate on the job training with appropriate skills, and provide information...
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...during work improve productivity, or does it act as a distraction? The significant increase of technology and connectivity in the workplace in recent years has lead to an unexpected, potentially negative, by-product of behaviours demonstrated by many employees, which is now commonly referred to as cyberloafing, cyberdeviancy or cyberslacking. While on the surface the initial response by most business owners and managers is that cyberloafing is a wasteful activity costing the company money through loss of productivity as a result of employees spending company time on personal endeavours, there has been another, more positive spin off, to the personal use of technology. These aspects have been investigated and expanded upon during numerous investigations into these behaviours. It has also been found that there are several factors within the workplace, such as technology use policies, that can contribute to employee behaviours in relation to use of company provided technologies that will be explored within this essay. 1 While many business owners and managers would like to see the occurrence of cyberloafing in the workplace eradicated completely there is plenty of evidence available from multiple independent studies that not all personal technology use in the workplace has a negative affect on worker productivity or workplace moral. It has been reported that brief periods of personal use of workplace technology for tasks such as sending...
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...Abstract Information Technology has become a significant component of new capital investment (some estimate put it at 30%) and several economists look to computers as the best hope for a sustainable increase in economic growth rates. Thus the question arises, can computers and the usage of information technology help attain the break-even earlier resulting in more and more profits? Thomas K. Landauer, in his book, The Trouble with Computers (MIT Press, 1995), argues that computers have been unproductive due to poor design and deployment. To support this thesis, Landauer Drwasn on economic data and analysis as reported by other researchers, and offers voluminous anecdotal evidence of computer shortcomings. He then proceeds to offer his own solution to this problem and provides an argument that computers can be improved in ways that would make them more useful, usable and productive. Introduction In India, Information Technology has built up a valuable brand equity over a decade. It is estimated that IT sector in the country has been growing at a rapid rate of over 35% per year. The contribution of IT has not been only limited to Banking, ITES and BPO sector, but also to the ever-growing Manufacturing sector. IT today provides the communication and analytical power to the organization to conduct business and compete at the global level. In the broadest sense, information technology refers to both the hardware and software that are used to store, retrieve, and manipulate information...
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...Organizations do not want to stay at the same stage or go under year after year not growing. For the organizations to achieve their goal is for the employees being productive. An organization to understand the difference with productive and counterproductive behavior will allow maximizing productive and decreasing counterproductive behavior. Productive behavior is when employee contributes positively to the goals and objects of the organizations. As a new employee when entering the organization must be able to contribute his or her duties, and be able to transit the period during which, he or she is not contributing positively to the organization. To be productive, however, over the time employees must be able to achieve the goal and task. To be successful organization must have productive employees but organization can be conducted with employees who have ineffective job performance, absenteeism, turnover and unsafe behavior and which is called counterproductive behavior. Counterproductive behavior is when an employee engages in behavior that makes the organization achieve any of it goals more difficult. Counterproductive behavior is when an employee performs poorly and engages in a violent act at work. Productive behavior and counterproductive behavior relay to each other because they involve people. An organization is usually impacted by the behaviors of its employees. Job performance is an area that is affected by productive and counterproductive behavior. Job performance...
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...Efficiency Chapter 8 .......................Prepare Thoroughly Before You Begin Chapter 9 .......................Do Your Homework Chapter 10 .....................Leverage Your Special Talents Chapter 11 .....................Identify Your Key Constraints Chapter 12 .....................Take It One Oil Barrel At A Time Chapter 13 .....................Put the Pressure on Yourself Chapter 14 .....................Maximize Your Personal Power Chapter 15 .....................Motivate Yourself Into Action 2 Chapter 16 .....................Practice Creative Procrastination Chapter 17 .....................Do the Most Difficult Task First Chapter 18 .....................Slice and Dice the Task Chapter 19 .....................Create Large Chunks of Time Chapter 20 .....................Develop a Sense of Urgency Chapter 21 .....................Single Handle Every Task Putting It All Together 3 Preface Thank you for picking up this book. I hope these ideas help you as much as have helped me and thousands of others. In fact, I hope that this book changes your life forever. There is never enough time to do everything you have to do. You are literally swamped with work and personal responsibilities, projects, stacks of magazines to read and piles of books you intend to get to one of these days as soon as you get caught up. But the fact is that you are never going to get caught...
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...(Antonoaie & Antonoaie, 2014). The values and decision making is informed by all information that can be shared (Antonoaie & Antonoaie, 2014). This type of organization will function optimally in an organic design. Having an organic design typically means that the organization adapts to a changing environment, an adaptive culture, and has an innovation strategy (Daft, 2013). In a learning organization with everyone receiving information from all areas, empowered roles are better suited than tasks that are narrowly defined to a person (Daft, 2013). The strategic emphasis is on innovation instead of efficiency as is the case in an efficient performance organization. The efficient performance organization is focused on labor productivity and ways to improve efficiency (Daft, 2013). This type of organization focuses on a centralized structure that is hierarchical. Knowledge and control of activities are centralized to make sure all process are optimized for efficiency (Daft, 2013). In this organization tasks are assigned to specific people for further follow up and execution. Communication is this organization is from the top management to the bottom and vice versa. Information is controlled by the top and flows all...
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...Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. You should be able to: 1. List the three primary ways that business organizations compete 2. Explain five reasons for the poor competitiveness of some companies 3. Define the term strategy and explain why strategy is important 4. Discuss and compare organization strategy and operations strategy, and explain why it is important to link the two 5. Describe and give examples of time-based strategies 6. Define the term productivity and explain why it is important to organizations and countries 7. Provide some reasons for poor productivity and some ways of improving it Instructor Slides 2-2 Better quality, higher productivity, lower costs, and the ability to respond quickly to customer needs are more important than ever and… the bar is getting higher Instructor Slides 2-3 This chapter focuses on three separate, but related that are vitally important to business organizations Competitiveness Strategy Productivity Instructor Slides 2-4 Competitiveness: How effectively an organization meets the wants and needs of customers relative to others that offer similar goods or services Organizations compete through some combination of their marketing and operations functions • What do customers want? • How can these customer needs best be satisfied? Instructor Slides 2-5 Identifying...
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