As a key component of a World Bank‐financed Administrative Reform Programme, the Government of Jamaica began a phased … 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.  …

context of two case services with a specific measurement object – productivity. Design/methodology/approach – Interviews with … towards measurement of performance and productivity in public organizations. Second, the experiences described can assist …

The 1980s have seen the emergence of a new perception of productivity and its relationship to quality, cost and … quality and high productivity and profitability are mutually exclusive has been seriously challenged by academics and managers … alike. While most company studies point to a positive relationship between quality and productivity, the results of the …

The key to increasing productivity in the manufacturing sector does not lie solely in high technology, but also in an …. Inasmuch as uncertainties and changes are the features of all real‐world situations, appropriate means of measurement, analysis …, prediction and control are indispensable; thus statistical tools have become a prerequisite to any productivity drive, those of …

This article examines the underlying paradigm of the total management process of productivity so as to observe the … hypothesised that productivity may be enhanced by recognising the need to maximise the availability of organisational assets.  …

A measure of the performance of an operation at a plant is the plant labour productivity index. Deviations in this … locate outliers and level shifts. These deviations help in identifying changes in this productivity index.  …

a favourable impact of enhanced quality in the form of improvements in productivity, inprocess inventory, on …

. Productivity improvement approaches were also investigated and related to performance. Multiple quality and productivity … interventions were correlated with eight actual quality, three productivity, and three financial performance measures. Results … indicate that a specific profile of quality and productivity improvement approaches was significantly related to performance …

Improving quality and productivity simultaneously is vital to organizational competitiveness. Although continuous … improvement is accepted as the objective for world class competition, it is not clear as to which interventions achieve the best … performance, which variables intervene by enhancing or restricting the achievement of high quality and productivity, or which …