Japan's superior quality and high growth rate of productivity. Just‐In‐Time (JIT) is one of the best known Japanese … production system requires many changes in the organisation; yet successful implementation results in improved productivity and …

corporate productivity are a flexible sense of involvement in duties, an enterprising forwardness in doing these duties and …

Concern for the productivity of employees in service operations combined with the difficulty of managerial control …

This article discusses current productivity improvement issues facing organisations in the UK and elsewhere. A brief … international perspective is then outlined using examples of successful productivity organisations, productivity campaigns and … company productivity improvement programmes taking place outside the UK. The article refocuses on the UK by reporting the …

Critical analysis of previously developed white‐collar productivity management techniques focuses on the existing … development of a more suitable productivity management methodology. A systematic procedure is described for the measurement and … evaluation of white‐collar productivity for an individual, a group of individuals or a department. The recommended measures, viz …

A weighted multi‐factor productivity index developed for the National Standard Company is presented. The index monitors … the performance of an organisation and identifies productivity problems. Key resource factors are defined and a weighting …

Here productivity is discussed with special reference to its measurement, especially partial as opposed to total …. Partial productivity measurement in turn involves productivity accounting and the use of grids to evaluate operations without …

system. The model presented in the article is able to analyse, predict and suggest ways for improving productivity. The model …