0 the rate at which a company or country makes goods, usually judged in connection with the number of people and the amount of materials necessary to produce the goods: --
1 the rate at which a person, company, or country does useful work: --
A pleasant working environment increases productivity.
2 the rate at which a country, company, etc. produces goods or services, usually judged in relation to the number of people and the time necessary to produce them: --
productivity gains/growth/improvement Many economists doubt that productivity growth can be credited to information technology.
productivity increases/improves/goes up Studies show that if a working environment is pleasant, productivity increases.
The productivity agreement gives staff an extra 10% pay if the team reaches its sales targets.
3 the ability to do as much work as possible in a particular period: --
Finally, productivity must also be considered when comparing agricultural systems, as a farm must be economically, as well as ecologically, sustainable.
Due to technical difficulties in randomizing which factors receive a boost, simulations were run for a subset of possible combinations of productivity improvements.
The use of genetic engineering to produce pest resistant transgenic plants represents one of many current approaches aimed at increasing agricultural productivity.
For their productivity mission, and thus for imposing managerial absolutism, employers also relied on the sweeping offensive and sympathy lockouts.
They add a contract variable to a regression which explains different levels of production or productivity among countries or among regions within a country.
In the dryer regions, no-till and crop rotations significantly improve yield and protect the productivity of the soil.
Correlations of market productivity are often positive, but they are relatively low, and in most cases lower than those of output.
Chapters 2-3 survey definitions of productivity and methods of measuring productivity of morphological processes.
