Describes the difference in attitudes between managers and shopfloor workers concerning the influences of productivity … productivity increases on outcomes for shopfloor workers than do the shopfloor workers themselves. It seems that workers feel that … they will bear more of the costs of any program which aims to improve productivity. Management must be aware of the …

A key to raising productivity may be to stimulate product market competition, and this will need a complementary policy … “inertia” preventing productivity being raised must be identified and defeated. Initial responsibility lies with management … productivity nation.  …

Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …