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Productivity

This guide explores the essential concepts of productivity within a business framework. It defines productivity as the relationship between outputs (goods and services) and inputs (labor and capital goods). Key components such as labor productivity, human capital, and technological change are examined to illustrate their impact on production efficiency. Activities like creating bookmarks serve as practical examples, enabling participants to calculate productivity while analyzing the effects of teamwork on output. Understanding these principles helps businesses optimize resources for better results.

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Productivity

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  1. Productivity

  2. Output = goods and services = products • What a business produces

  3. Inputs = labor + capital goods • What is put together to make outputs

  4. Capital goods • Goods produced and used to make other goods and services

  5. Labor productivity – • the amount of output (goods and services) produced per unit of input (labor) • or in other words • Output divided by input

  6. Human capital • The quality of the labor resources that can be improved through investments in the health, education and training of workers

  7. Technological change • Bringing into production new knowledge and processes • Results in: • Improvement of or change in existing goods

  8. Technological change • Bringing into production new knowledge and processes • Results in: • The introduction of new goods or services

  9. Technological change • Bringing into production new knowledge and processes • Results in: • A different organization of the process

  10. Increase in productivity means producing more goods and services with the same amount of resources OR • Producing the same amount of outputs with fewerinputs

  11. Bookmarks • Inputs: Construction paper, pictures, 18 inches of yarn, 1 ruler, 1 pencil, 1 pair scissors, 1 glue stick, 1 marker, hole punch (community), your labor • Outputs: 6x2 two color bookmark with picture and inspirational saying and a string with tassel attached through a hole at one end

  12. Bookmark, cont. • Working alone construct a bookmark. Record your time and calculate your productivity (Hint: it will be 1) Record it on your chart.

  13. Bookmarks, cont. • The time it took to construct one bookmark is your base time. Use this time as a constant (the amount of time you will use each time.) Now with 3 or 4 people, can you maximize your productivity? Make a plan. Predict what will happen. Record your results. Were you right? Why or why not?

  14. Bookmarks, cont. • Do it again with 7 or 8 or 9 people. Make a plan. Predict what will happen. Record your results. Were you right? Why or why not?

  15. What factors influenced productivity? • How did the process change it? • Explain why your results were what they were.

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