Your Attitude Is Showing: A Primer of Human Relations, Tenth Edition

Team Management

Productivity has become a significant word in business, industry, and government. Every organization operates either to make a profit or to reach a certain level of excellence.

Management has its own ways of measuring work quality and productivity. Some jobs are more easily measured than others. If you are employed as a factory worker, for example, your productivity is measured by the amount of work you perform over a certain time.

Some organizations employ time-study experts to measure the time required to perform a given task and to establish standards of performance. As an employee of such a company, you are expected to exceed this standard. If you are employed in a sales organization, for instance, you might be given a sales ...