Differentiating Productivity and Productivity Performance
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This article discusses, differentiates and defines the terms: Productivity and Productivity Performance. It also talks about the ways that the two terms are interrelated.
Productivity and Productivity Performance are two different yet closely related disciplines; in fact you cannot derive productivity performance without getting a productivity level first. In this article you will find productivity defined in brief, a discussion on Productivity Performance and its significance and a differentiation of the two.
Productivity is a total amount of output per input. Often the output in productivity is measured in specific units, be it the number of items that a person can produce. The Input on the other hand is often the amount of time spent in creating an output. An example of a productivity report for an individual is as follows: A Fry Cook in a Chain Restaurant is able to make 30 burgers in an hour. The rating for that whether below average, average or excellent wholly depends on the standards set by the company that the said Fry Cook is working for, or at least based on some standards that are applicable to the industry the business is in.
Productivity performance is a representation of the overall trend of productivity for a certain period of time. It is similar to that of Productivity measurement in that it takes into consideration the input and output of individuals, companies as a whole or even governments. Their difference lies in the fact that productivity performance takes a broader view and does not work on the same level as plain productivity measurements do. It works with existing productivity reports to create a representation of the movement of the productivity level of a certain institution. Often, productivity performance covers a span greater than that of Productivity analysis.
If we go back to the first example of the Fry Cook, a Productivity Performance report for him may be as follows: The duration being studied is that of a whole month. In that month, it was shown that the employee in question seemed to produce the least amount of burgers on Mondays and the most on Sundays. If this result was investigated and interpreted, it may show that productivity is low on Mondays because it is when there is the least amount of customers while productivity is high on Sundays, which is when customer numbers are the highest throughout the week.
Productivity performance reports are of very high significance to companies and governments. They are usually given as year end reports or as risk reports that denote how other markets have fared under the circumstances that the company is in. Its significance in year end summaries is very high especially when it is presented with in depth data of events that surrounds the high and low peaks. The reason for such importance is because companies can turn to productivity performance reports and charts to pinpoint where they should improve their activity level to either combat the drops to maintain or further improve the peaks. The same goes for governments, Productivity performance reviews give them an idea as to where the Gross National Economy performed the worst. This way loss can be calculated and may also be avoided in the future.
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