What is productivity?



How do we define It.?



There is more than one definition for this term. An HR executive will
define it as number of man hours spent on the work station. For him
productivity increases with the number of man hours. For a technical
head or floor manager, the productivity is the output an employee gives
in his man hours. Similarly it has different meanings for the costing,
supply chain and other departments exist.

Most convenient and definitive way to describe productivity is to judge
the relativity of the output to bottom lines per man hour. The value of
the ‘per man hour’ output depends on the physical & psychological
conditions. The value of the productivity during first and second hours
will be considerably higher than the value for the Thirteenth &
fourteenth hour when a man is working continuously for fourteen hours.



Let us take a simple example, in an office an employee in normal case
replies to 50 mails. He has to put in extra hours to send 75 mails.
Theoretically his productivity has increased by 50%. But actually the
quality of the content has decreased resulting in the reduction in the
positive outcome out of the mails. The value of each mail has come down
substantially.

Another example, A man working on a machine produces normally 50 pieces
of the material. He puts in more man hours and produces 75 pieces. Here
also the productivity has gone up by 50 %. But if the rate of rejection
suddenly goes up, the value of his productivity per man hour has come
down. The choice for the employer is between increasing the productivity
and increasing the value of the productivity.



Now you would agree that productivity per man hour is not the value for
money for the employer, it is the value of productivity during the man
hours.



Now how to add value to the productivity?



Please follow the link to read the complete article.





http://capacitybuildingdevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/05/let-us-add-...





Best wishes,



Shyam