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engagement measure is implemented, one can create breakout
reports by department or
leader. This means departments and leaders can gain a better
understanding of how
engagement in their groups differs from the rest of the
organization. This information can be
used to create development plans or plans for larger-scale
interventions.
Productivity - Productivity is the relationship between output
of goods and services and theinputs of
resources, human and non-human used in the production process,
with the relationship usually
expressed in ratio form. Both outputs and inputs are measured in
physical volumes and thus
are unaffected by price changes. Constant prices as of one
period are used to add up the units
of different outputs and inputs in order to combine them into
aggregate measures. The ratios
may relate to the national economy, to an individual industry,
or to a company
The least controversial definition of productivity is that it is
a quantitative
relationship between output and input (Iyaniwura and Osoba,
1983, Antle and
Capalbo, 1988). This definition enjoys general acceptability
because of two
related considerations. One, the definition suggests what
productivity is thought
of to be in the context of an enterprise, an industry or an
economy as a whole.
The Significance of Productivity
The importance of productivity to economic growth and
development can hardly
be over-emphasized. It remains the basic problem of economic
progress, as it is
required at both the early stages of development as well as in
the permanent
process of re-equipping the production apparatus of any
nation.
Wen (1993) employing the use of a diagram revealed that there
are three sources
of growth. First is the traditional source of growth that is
captured by the move
from a point like A to B along T1 consequent upon input
increases from x1 to x2.
The second source of growth is rooted in institutional
innovation that eliminates
restraints in resource allocation such that more output is
produced with the same
