Productivity measurement and management at the company level : the Japanese experience
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Productivity measurement and management at the company level : the Japanese experience
(Advances in industrial engineering, 14)
Elsevier, 1991
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Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB) Library , Kobe University図書
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-569) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of productivity analysis at the corporate level. It begins with productivity measurement and evaluation in the workplace where the main focus is on unit input requirement. The theory of worker productivity and its management is discussed intensively. Secondly, the intermediate stage of aggregation of activities at corporate level is given in terms of total cost rentability and productivity nexus. Using this approach the total efficiency of corporate activity is evaluated and compared with productivity performance both in Japan and worldwide, as well as with the average performance of the industry in which the firm is involved. Thirdly, the final concept of corporate productivity: added value productivity is examined. Added value is the total fruit of corporate activities and the fund to be distributed among its members. The total structure of added value, which is not quite so simple as many textbooks have led to believe, is analysed in detail and applied to the corporate productivity management scheme. Finally, white-collar productivity, one of the most topical areas in productivity studies today is also examined in detail.
Table of Contents
Parts: I. Concepts of Productivity. 1. Productivity as a guiding principle of the productive force/activity of the human race. 2. Structure of company productivity. 3. Bird's-eye view of productivity at the company level. II. Productivity Indices. 4. A general introduction to productivity index number analysis. 5. Index number system/ratio system for planning and management of productivity. 6. Unit input requirement management and measurement system. 7. Hierarchical weighted average labour productivity index number system with variable structure: The HW LAP system. III. Worker Productivity. 8. Some considerations on the relationship between worker productivity and the intensity of labour. 9. Foundations of worker productivity management and measurement. 10. Analysis of output per man-hour. 11. Workshop productivity management by ratios - The WPMR system. IV. Total Productivity. 12. Measurement and analysis of total productivity and profitability: The AIPR system. 13. Productivity index in terms of nominal prices - Total productivity by the equivalent labour unit method. V. Added Value Productivity. 14. Fragment - Structure constructed from variants of the productivity and the added value. 15. Added value productivity in an enterprise. 16. Aggregate index for the analysis of added value productivity. 17. Measurement and analysis of the added value ratio. 18. Business accounting based on added value. Appendices: Principal component analysis. Law of added value labour productivity differentials. Conclusion. Bibliography.
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