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BM II 102
LAP EC-018 Productivity
Term | Definition |
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Business productivity | The amount of goods or services produced by a business from a set amount |
Capital Investment | The amount of money the business has invested in its goods and other property |
Competitive Advantage | The edge achieved by business that offer something better than their competitors |
Disproportionately | Unsuitability, Unreasonably , or Inappropriately sized |
Division of labor | Dividing a Large job into units, or job tasks, and assigning an individual to do each of the tasks |
Efficiency | Accomplishing a task with a minimum expenditure of time and effort |
Goal setting | The ability to visualize , set , and focus on achieving business objectives |
Gross Domestic Product | The final Market value of the total outputs of all goods and services produced within a country's geographic boundaries during a years time |
Gross domestic Product Per capita | The average productivity of individual workers calculated by dividing the gross domestic product by the worker hours required to produce it |
Inflation | A rapid rise in prices that may occur when demands exceed supply or when productivity declines and cost of labor go up |
Inputs | The specific economic resources used in producing foods and services |
job Orientation | Job preparation or induction training in which new employees are acquainted with their surroundings, receive general information about the company and its policies , and are given specific information about the job |
Labor | the work people do or the workers themselves |
Mass production | The rapid production of large quantities of a product |
Objectives | goals to be reached |
Outputs | the goods or services produced as the result of combining inputs |
Participative Decision-Making | the involvement of several individuals in making decisions; in business, the participation of employees in decisions to be made by management |
Productivity | the amount and value of goods and services produced (outputs) from set amounts of resources (inputs) |
Quality of work life | The general conditions in which employees work |
Service Business | A type of business that performs intangible activities that satisfy |
Specialization | the process of making the best use of resources in the production of goods and services |
Standard of living | general conditions in which people live; quality of life |
Standardization | organization of work so that it is always done in the same way |
Trend | general direction in which people or events are moving |
Worker Productivity | the amount of work a worker can perform in a given period of time (customer served per hour |