Significant wage and material price increases, coupled with only slight increases in organisational productivity, are … forcing some companies to question their present approach to operational management. A project approach to productivity and … creativity is based on the premise that management cannot afford wage increases without a corresponding increase in productivity …

means to improve stagnant DP professionals' productivity, overcome communication problems and reduce the risks of systems …

A survey was conducted in India to try to understand the factors that affect the productivity of Indian organisations … managers in the creation, design and maintenance of systems. Productivity is interpreted as creating maximum welfare for the …

Efficient techniques of information collection and analysis are essential to all quality and productivity improvement … higher productivity, as it enables the investigator to identify and evaluate important variables quickly, replacing the …

measured from a multi‐criteria approach including measures of profitability and productivity. The results suggest that the …

productivity‐oriented managerial environments throughout its administrative service, 1,000 front line supervisors have been … management services support for cost centre managers and, (5) the establishment of productivity‐oriented training programmes.  …

This empirical study investigates productivity performance of Canadian (n = 43) and US (n = 95) manufacturers in the … different categories of productivity measures: financial, customer related, and internal business related. TQM firms indicate … improved performance on various productivity measures. Statistically significant differences exist between the two countries on …

The essence of the lessons from Japanese industry are abstracted so that it is possible to relate productivity …