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- Knowledge Work Productivity Assessment
- Productivity is a key determinant for the success of any organisation. This holds true also in the case of knowledge-intensive organisations. Traditional productivity measures are based on measuring the quantities of outputs (i.e. products and services) produced as well as the inputs used in the production process. However, these quantitative...
- White papers 2005-11-01
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- Measuring Multi-Factor Productivity When Rates Of Return Are Exogenous
- This paper discusses the computation of capital services measures with user cost expressions that employ exogenous rates of return, as well as expected depreciation and expected asset price changes. One consequence of this formulation is that total capital remuneration does not necessarily equal non-labour income as given by the national...
- White papers 2004-10-16
- Increasing the Productivity of Your Sales Force
- The first task of a program to improve sales force productivity is to determine how much time the sales force actually spends selling. Factors such as poor call rates, travel time, sickness, and vacations all serve to reduce potential sales time. Database techniques can improve sales performance by enabling analysis...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- The Productivity Gap | BTalk Australia
- (14min 40) Telstra has just released "The Telstra Productivity Indicator: A report on business attitudes toward improving productivity in Australia", highlighting what is termed the productivity gap. An accompanying economic white paper shows the link between productivity gains and investment in information and communication technology ICT. In...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Productivity Statistics: Sources And Methods
- Productivity is a measure of how efficiently inputs (labour and capital, for example) are being used in the economy to produce outputs. It is commonly defined as a ratio of a volume measure of output to a volume measure of input use. Movements in the ratio over time reflect changes...
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Introducing a Productivity Initiative
- In a company where good, solid, and effective managerial processes exist already, many of the techniques for improving productivity should be easy to incorporate. Though technical capabilities are crucial, implementing new systems can be expensive and often lead to drastic reductions in productivity. Employing innovative managerial techniques is a cheaper...
- Articles 2008-01-30
- Productivity Keeps Profits Up
- According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, productivity is "the rate at which goods or services are produced, especially output per unit of labor.Peter H. Soderberg, president and CEO of Welch Allyn, Inc., one of the five manufacturers who appeared on the "Syracuse 100" list this year...
- Research articles 2000-11-17
- Human Capital Allocation and Over education: A Measure of French Productivity
- In the last three decades, France has experienced an increase in the numbers of students in further education. In this context, it has chosen to quantify the phenomenon of over education using a salary-based approach and to measure the impact of the general lengthening in the duration of studies on...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Productivity Surges, Job Growth Should Follow
- By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. business productivity grew at its fastest clip in six years in the third quarter and new claims for jobless aid fell to a 10-month low last week, suggesting the labor market may be starting to bottom out.The Labor Department said on Thursday that productivity...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Schering-Plough's Productivity (Layoffs) Program Has Murky Results
- When Schering-Plough declared its Q4 2008 earnings a few days ago, the management team there got about half-a-dozen questions about the company's sales and marketing expenses -- more than the usual number. Schering has played up its Productivity Transformation Program to Wall Street, which is essentially a...
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Is It Possible To Measure Sectoral Productivity Levels?: The Case Of Manufacturing
- This paper studies conversion factors based on the expenditure approach and evaluates the appropriateness for international productivity comparisons in manufacturing. It applies a consistency check based on the insight that relative productivity levels should be invariant to the choice of base year. Consequently, convergence parameters and dispersion of productivity across...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Measuring Working Capital Productivity
- Working capital productivity compares an organization's sales with its working capital, as a measure of efficiency.If sales increase more rapidly than the funds needed to generate them, it shows that a business is being well managed and operating productively—so it will be more attractive to investors. It's also an indication...
- Articles 2007-03-15
- Total Factor Productivity: Macroeconomic And Structural Aspects Of The Slowdown
- The focus of this paper is on developments in Total Factor Productivity TFP in OECD countries since the 1960s. TFP growth is defined here as that portion of real output growth which is not accounted for by increase in inputs of labour and capital, the two most fundamental factors of...
- White papers 2005-08-17
- International comparisons of labor productivity and per capita income - Statistical Data Included
- A new cross-national study reveals differences in economic performance and living standards that are both quantitatively and qualitatively large across countries and regions Interest in international comparisons of economic performance and living standards has grown with increased world trade and improved labor and capital mobility. Differences among countries in...
- Research articles 1999-07-01
- Productivity Growth And The Role Of ICT In The United Kingdom: An Industry View, 1970-2000
- A new industry-level dataset is used to quantify the role of ICT Information and Communication Technology in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970-2000. The dataset is for 34 industries covering the whole economy (31 in the market sector). Using growth accounting, it is found that ICT capital played an...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- U.S. worker productivity rises slightly in 1998 first quarter
- WASHINGTON Bloomberg -- U.S. worker productivity rose in the first quarter at the slowest pace in more than a year as the number of hours employees spent on the job surged and business grappled with shortages of job applicants. Productivity -- a measure of the time and effort...
- Research articles 1998-05-08
- US productivity surges 4.7 percent
- WASHINGTON AFP — US workers' productivity jumped by 4.7 percent in the third quarter, the Labor Department said in a revised report that analysts said was good news for inflation and growth. The report boosted the initially reported figure for annualized non-farm productivity of 4.1 percent, and was more...
- Research articles 2005-12-06
- US productivity revs higher at 3.2 percent pace
- WASHINGTON AFP — US labor productivity increased at a 3.2 percent pace in the first quarter of 2006, government data shows. The Labor Department preliminary report on nonfarm productivity was better than the 2.8 percent increase expected by private economists. The jump came after a 0.3 decline in...
- Research articles 2006-05-04
- Total factor productivity - a misleading concept
- Total factor productivity - a misleading concept* 1. Introduction In real business cycle models, growth accounting, as in empirical research on the link between R&D spending and economic performance, the indicator usually chosen for productivity is total factor productivity - a concept that derives from a...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Increase in Productivity Will Boost US Economy, Experts Predict.
- By Allister Heath, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 2--America's productivity is on course to show its fastest growth for half a century as the US "productivity miracle" continues despite a sluggish fourth quarter, leading economists are predicting. ...
- Research articles 2003-02-02
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