ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the identification and measurement of factors that affect productivity, the optimization of human resources and the outline of a system that measures performance against productivity standards and the resulting reports. It defines the terms "productivity" and "production". The chapter describes performance standards and adjustments to a uniform base. It identifies factors that affect productivity. The chapter also describes a system to measure and improve performance. Productivity emphasized how best to produce those products and how efficient tasks are performed. It is not only the efficiency or the measure of efficiency of production but also the relation to rational business goals. The productivity can be likened to an onion with many skins. The core may have strict single input labor units. The basic concept of productivity is a ratio which relates some volume of output to some volume of input. It measures the use of resources or the degree of their use.
