Productivity is not an easy goal to achieve and there are no specific guidelines as how to enhance it. Productivity is a very vast field and is usually spread all over the firm. People are what make the company successful and effective use of an employee is the key factor enhancing job productivity. Full utilization of human resources and productivity does not necessarily mean the same thing. Productiveness is a fabricated word for business use, and differs from productivity in a sense that it considers the value of the output.
Productivity represents some measure of output divided by employee input.
Many of the key techniques, methods and areas of work that can effectively improve productivity are used by firms all over the USA and internationally. There are four basic areas of work that have significant impact upon the levels of productivity. The first area is the substitution of machinery for human effort. A second broad area involves activities directed at determining and applying the most appropriate methods of work. A third and frequently overlooked opportunity for increasing productivity, is the removal of unproductive practices that in effect inhabit or detract from productivity.