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Definitions and understanding

Asmall story:

Once a boss asks his employee, ‘Why did it take you six months to complete such a simple task?’

The employee replies, ‘Because of your confusing directions, continuous changes and short work days!’

The boss replies, ‘I was looking for something like you being lazy!’

So much has been written and said about productivity in organizations. Productivity has become the mantra in organizations for the last two or three decades. As a result of invention of computers and new communications

 technologies such as the internet and cell phone, the world has become a much smaller place.While there has been an increase in productivity in companies, it has often come at a huge price on the health (physical and mental) and well being of the employees. Let us now start to understand what is productivity and how productivity can be enhanced without the side effects of stress.

In simple terms, productivity can be measured as:

Productivity = Output / Input

The measure of output may be certain number of tasks completed by a particular individual or team or revenue in the case of a manufacturing company. The measure of input may include the number of hours worked on a particular project, manufacturing costs etc.

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