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 … performance, which variables intervene by enhancing or restricting the achievement of high quality and productivity, or which … measures are appropriate for evaluating differences. Develops a quality evaluation tool and total factor productivity measures …

performance and productivity measures, to test the hypothesis that there is a definite link between a firm’s commitment to quality …

quality and productivity in manufacturing systems. In recent years, TQM has been seen as an important strategy for achieving … success in business both in terms of quality and productivity. However, there seem to be no clear strategic framework and …

The intent of this empirical research is to identify the critical factors that are potentially “fatal” to productivity …

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 …