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Books on: productivity improvement

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Productivity Measurement and Improvement: Organizational Case Studies

Book by Robert D. Pritchard; Praeger Publishers, 1995

Subjects:

Industrial Productivity--Measurement--Case Studies, Labor Productivity--Measurement--Case Studies

Collections: Entire Library

Improving organizational productivity is an important current and future issue. The improvement can be effected by changing technology, or by changing the way in which people work. The concern of this work is how to structure work so that people can and will want to maximize their productivity using ...
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Improving organizational productivity is an important current and future issue. The improvement can be effected by changing technology, or by changing the way in which people work. The concern of this work is how to structure work so that people can and will want to maximize their productivity using a special approach to measurement and improvement of organizational productivity defined by the author - ProMES (Productivity Measurement and Enchancement System). ProMES is a way of motivating people to maximize their productivity. This book describes a series of cases where ProMES was applied to improve productivity in service and manufacturing organizations in a variety of different organizations in different countries. Results indicate very large increases in productivity, much larger than those typically found. Lessons learned from these cases for future productivity improvement efforts are summarized.
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Estimates of Productivity Change by Industry: An Evaluation and an Alternative

Book by Edward F. Denison; The Brookings Institution, 1989

Subjects:

Industrial Productivity--United States, Industries--United States, Manufacturing Industries--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...adjustment to eliminate unusual productivity improvement in computer production...allowance for exceptional productivity improvement in computer production...Exclusion of the exceptional productivity improvement in computer production...
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Labor Productivity Control: New Approaches for Industrial Engineers and Managers

Book by John C. Martin; Praeger Publishers, 1991

Subjects:

Labor Productivity, Work Measurement

Collections: Entire Library

This management guide to labor productivity is the product of Martin's 40 years of experience in the industrial engineering and manufacturing fields. He presents his own personal approach to the specifics of labor productivity control, detailing ineffective control strategies and the alternate ...
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This management guide to labor productivity is the product of Martin's 40 years of experience in the industrial engineering and manufacturing fields. He presents his own personal approach to the specifics of labor productivity control, detailing ineffective control strategies and the alternate methods that he's observed to be workable. Among the issues he addresses are control plan applications, direct time study vs. predetermined motion times, work sampling bias, misapplications of improvement curves, implementing nondirect cost control, and computer-aided applications of MTM-1. The coverage provided is applicable within manufacturing, processing, and service organizations.
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Educating for Excellence: Improving Quality and Productivity in the 90's

Book by J. H. U. Brown, Jacqueline Comola; Auburn House, 1991

Subjects:

Economic Development--Effect Of Education On, Education--Economic Aspects--United States, Educational Change--United States, Industrial Management--United States, Industrial Productivity--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

America's current social and economic crises are the subject of this work, which attributes much of the blame to the loss of excellence in education. By focusing on such topics as management's failure to recognize the importance of technology, the school systems' inability to train students in lower ...
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America's current social and economic crises are the subject of this work, which attributes much of the blame to the loss of excellence in education. By focusing on such topics as management's failure to recognize the importance of technology, the school systems' inability to train students in lower grades, the health care crisis, and the lack of ethical standards, Brown and Comolo provide a clear picture of the need for re-education in all aspects of our society. A set of four concluding chapters offer ideas and solutions to the problems.
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Human Performance and Productivity: Stress and Performance Effectiveness

Book by Earl A. Alluisi, Edwin A. Fleishman; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1982

Subjects:

Job Stress, Labor Productivity

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Includes a chapter on workload, task & situational factors as modifiers of complex human performance.

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Journal Articles on: productivity improvement

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Labour Productivity in UK Manufacturing in the 1970s and in the 1980s

Journal article by Nicholas Oulton; National Institute Economic Review, 1990

Subjects:

Industrial productivity--United Kingdom, Labor productivity--United Kingdom, Manufacturing industry--Statistics, United Kingdom--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...What accounts for the productivity improvement experienced in manufacturing...size-for example, is the productivity improvement greater or smaller in...the linkages between the productivity improvement, unionisation and the...
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Unions and Productivity: Convergence or Divergence in Perceptions

Journal article by Michel Grant, Jean Harvey; International Studies of Management & Organization, Vol. 22, 1992

Subjects:

Labor productivity--Analysis, Labor unions--Attitudes

Collections: Entire Library

...focuses on the dynamics of productivity improvement and on perceptions of...relations practices and their productivity improvement needs and programs. Perceptions...important clues in assessing productivity improvement programs and in identifying...
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The High-Productivity Electronics Company

Journal article by Arthur P. Cimento, Russell J. Knister; The McKinsey Quarterly, 1994

Subjects:

Electronics industry--Production management, Industrial productivity--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...essential link between productivity improvement and strong economic performance...successfully pursue continuous productivity improvement can still earn good profits...Price competition and productivity improvement are well-established facts...
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Are Computers Boosting Productivity? A Test of the Paradox in State Governments

Journal article by Geunjoo Lee, James L. Perry; Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 12, 2002

Subjects:

Administrative agencies--Investments, Industrial productivity--Analysis, Information technology--Investments, State government--Investments

Collections: Entire Library

...1995). Thus far, however, productivity improvements associated with IT investments...report that evidence of productivity improvement is hard to find in the...contribute to overall productivity improvement; it gives a firm strategic...
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Sources of Australia's Productivity Revival

Journal article by Dean Parham; Economic Record, Vol. 80, 2004

Subjects:

Australia--Economic aspects, Economic recovery--Causes of, International Monetary Fund, Macroeconomics--Analysis, Productivity accounting

Collections: Entire Library

...found that whilst most productivity improvement came from existing firms...be genuine sources of productivity improvement. Moreover, in principle...contributed to recent productivity improvement in Australia. However...

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Magazine Articles on: productivity improvement

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The Computer and the Economy; Will Information Technology Ever Produce the Productivity Gains That Were Predicted?

Magazine article by Alan S. Blinder, Richard E. Quandt; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, December 1997

Subjects:

Industrial productivity--Analysis, Information technology--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Evidence for "productivity miracles" arising...or two ago. The improvements have indeed been...created a like improvement in communication...approaches the productivity impact of the...enhance business productivity. And we have not...Information overload. Improvements in information...
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Computers Can Accelerate Productivity Growth

Magazine article by Robert H. Mcguckin, Kevin J. Stiroh; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 14, Summer 1998

Subjects:

Computers--Economic aspects, Industrial productivity--Economic aspects, Industry--Data processing

Collections: Entire Library

...interchangeably, and TFP is the productivity measure most favored by economists...services, augmented with quality improvements), where different inputs...that both output growth and productivity growth are poorly measured...economists agree that quality improvements are an important form of...
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How to Improve Employee Motivation, Commitment, Productivity, Well-Being and Safety

Magazine article by L. Scott Kimball, Carl E. Nink; Corrections Today, Vol. 68, June 2006

Subjects:

Employee motivation--Methods, Human resource management, Job satisfaction--Analysis, Labor productivity--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...turnover and better teamwork, productivity and other manifestations...managers create goals for future improvements. The one-day retreat subsequent...staff and increase overall productivity in their organization. During...also renewed. The potential improvement in employee engagement is...
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Productivity with a Human Face. Long Practiced in Japan, the Management Ideas of Edward Deming Are Finally Starting to Catch on Here, Too

Magazine article by Michael Maccoby; Washington Monthly, Vol. 23, March 1991

Subjects:

Deming Management at Work (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Deming, W. Edwards--Philosophy, Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Industrial management--Philosophy, Industrial productivity--Philosophy, The Man Who Discovered Quality: How W. Edward Deming Brought the Quality Revolution to America (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Productivity with a human face. Long practiced...logic and making qualitative improvements in the way a company runs...unions support was crucial to improvement. Walton reports Demings notion...their contributions to continuous improvement. Deming would do away with performance...
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No Productivity Boom for Workers

Magazine article by Stephen S. Roach; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 14, Summer 1998

Subjects:

Information technology--Economic aspects, Labor productivity--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...a notable lack of improvement in official productivity results for the U...that white-collar productivity improvements are simply much harder...glasses, "not yet." Improvements in underlying productivity growth are one of...

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Newspaper Articles on: productivity improvement

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Productivity Is Just Child's Play

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 16, 2007

Subjects:

Labor productivity

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...stability. He hassaid the same sort of thing many times since. Manufacturing industry has the scope for continuous productivity improvement.Service businesses have much less scope. Cutting hair and pouring beer take aslong now as they did in the Sixties...
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Despite Billions Pumped into the NHS, Productivity Still Falls

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 30, 2008

Subjects:

Industrial productivity

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...spending. This means that productivity - when measured relative...there has been virtually no improvement in patient satisfactiondespite...in2006 than in 1995. While productivity kept pace until 2001, it...although there was a slight improvement in 2006. The ONS said there...
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Cost of Poor Productivity

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), September 26, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Cost of Poor Productivity. Byline: Paul Gilhooley, Business Improvement Director, R. Blackett Charlton...help improve a workforces productivity, as these individuals would...can all contribute to an improvement by making minor changes...
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The Productivity Surge

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 3, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...represented a significant improvement over average annual changes in productivity experienced during the...employees and significant improvement in corporate profits on...percentage point increase in productivity from 1.5 percent (1974-1995...
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Bush to Stay the Course on Economy; Cites Good News on Jobs, Productivity

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 8, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Cites good news on jobs, productivity Byline: Patrice Hill...of reports showing recent improvement in the economy. Several...robust 4 percent increase in productivity and a decline in jobless...buying groceries and gas. Productivity of our workers is high...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: productivity improvement

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Science

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the magnetic compass, as well as improvements in ship design, had increased agricultural productivity and navigation and contributed...resulting enormous increase in productivity; the improvement of many metallurgical processes...
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Pollution

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...true costs of pollution in terms of its effects on health, productivity, and quality of life. There is considerable agreement, nonetheless...fertilizer and by recycling glass and metal materials. Finally, improvement is required in techniques for preventing pollution by especially...

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