Tag: workers

We rarely see stories or articles about productivity in the newspaper or on TV.When we do, it's usually just another story on the economy that defies understanding.Which is too bad.Our prosperous standard of living arrived, in large part, because of the ability of companies and organizations everywhere, and for the past several hundred years, to increase productivity.Productivity simply refers to how much labor or money it takes to create a product or service...

Although offices and management styles have come a long way in the past decade, the command and control style of management remains common practice in many businesses.This management approach basically means that workers are told precisely what to do, when to do it and even how it ought to be done.The supervisor is in charge, has all of the answers, and fixes all of the issues.It's not surprising that lots of people find this approach demotivating - and that offices with a command-control style are ranked as fairly unsatisfying...