Productivity Manual

This is a manual for assessing, maintaining and improving productivity in any plant or office. This edition supplies a new chapter on quality, updated references throughout, and realistic methods and activities that improve productivity. Features include: flexibility, examining quantitative (numeric) and qualitative (descriptive) approaches to productivity measurement; practicality, giving readers more than 100 questions/answers and exercises that should stimulate thinking, facilitate understanding and encourage adaptation of the material to meet specific individual, group or organizational needs; and a systems approach, describing the important relationship of input, throughput and output variables, and the critical role of feedback in improving productivity.