White Collar Waste

White Collar Waste
Author: Val Olson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1983
Genre: Incentives in industry
ISBN: 9780139576881

Handbook for Productivity Measurement and Improvement

Handbook for Productivity Measurement and Improvement
Author: Christopher W. Head
Publisher: Productivity Press
Total Pages: 1344
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781563270079

With its comprehensive scope and easy-to-read format, this compendium belongs in every company and academic institution concerned with business and industrial viability. Featuring scores of contributions covering the most advanced methods for the measurement and improvement of quality and productivity, no other reference can compete. Throughout 100 chapters, front-runners in the quality movement reveal the evolving theory and specific practices of world-class organizations. Spanning a wide variety of industries and business sectors, this handbook includes insightful discussions on quality and productivity in manufacturing, service industries, profit centers, administration, nonprofit and government institutions, health care and education. Topics include— Benchmarking The best way to implement an activity-based cost-management system Ten rules for building a measurement system Process simplification through cycle-time reduction Strategies for measuring and improving white-collar productivity Sharing the productivity payoff—gain sharing primer

Productivity Measurement and Management at the Company Level

Productivity Measurement and Management at the Company Level
Author: Kazukiyo Kurosawa
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
Total Pages: 624
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of productivity analysis at the corporate level. It begins with productivity measurement and evaluation in the workplace where the main focus is on unit input requirement. The theory of worker productivity and its management is discussed intensively. Secondly, the intermediate stage of aggregation of activities at corporate level is given in terms of total cost rentability and productivity nexus. Using this approach the total efficiency of corporate activity is evaluated and compared with productivity performance both in Japan and worldwide, as well as with the average performance of the industry in which the firm is involved. Thirdly, the final concept of corporate productivity: added value productivity is examined. Added value is the total fruit of corporate activities and the fund to be distributed among its members. The total structure of added value, which is not quite so simple as many textbooks have led to believe, is analysed in detail and applied to the corporate productivity management scheme. Finally, white-collar productivity, one of the most topical areas in productivity studies today is also examined in detail.

Productivity Measurement and Analysis

Productivity Measurement and Analysis
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9264044612

Presents the proceedings of two workshops on productivity measurement and analysis, which brought together representatives of statistical offices, central banks and other officials involved with the analysis and measurement of productivity at aggregate and industry levels.