Productivity
* All productivity is the result of energy expended as it flows through such a system.
* Most productivity drives economic growth.
* Some productivity contributes to growth.
* alone determines the long-run path of income per capita, or living standards.
* always increases when morale is high and a positive working environment exists.
* bi-monthly magazine covering various aspects of productivity and related subjects.
* complex measurement to standardize.
* controls food-chain properties in microbial communities.
* declines with the loss of plant diversity.
* department's output compared to what is input.
* depends on availability
  - choices
  - current availability
  - reproductive efficiency
  - the effective management of time and information
* determines how fast living standards can improve.
* dynamic phenomenon.
* falls as hours grow.
* form of the word productive.
* here refers to labor productivity, the amount of output per hour worked.
* increases availability
  - dramatically when people share information instead of hoarding it
  - naturally in an integrous environment
  - ultimately derive from capital accumulation
* increases when employees actively participate in the creation of wealth and prosperity
  - perceive that they have full opportunity to achieve
  - less time is spent sitting in traffic
* is also important in trying to manage cleared rainforest land.
* is an important determinant of economic growth and our future standard of living
  - measure because it determines a region's standard of living
  - index measuring the amount of production for each unit of labor
  - issue that is endlessly debated among managers in the workplace
  - assessed by calculations
  - basically a function of per capita investment
  - crucial to survival in the global marketplace
* is dependent on many things, an important item is food and drink
  - the health of each worker
  - essential to raising incomes and maintaining stable prices
* is greatest at the bottom trophic level and declines at higher levels
  - in zones of high temperature gradients called ocean fronts
  - income based on objective or subjective factors based on the goals of the group
  - low and agriculture is subject to water, wind, and temperature stresses
* is measured as historical levels of demand or output over historical units of effort
  - output per worker-hour
* is measured by means of the Malmquist index
  - the number of worker hours it takes to build a vehicle
  - total employee compensation divided by revenue dollars
  - in joules per square metre per year
  - no abstract number
  - one way to look at the impact of advances in technology on economic growth
  - output per unit of input, usually expressed as a ratio
  - production per unit time
  - ratios
  - reduced when it is cold
  - said to increase when more output can be produced with the same amounts of inputs
  - the amount of goods and services produced from each hour of a worker s time
* is the amount of output each worker generates
  - per unit of input used
  - produced per unit of input
  - the produced goods divided by total working hours
  - economy's most important tool for combating inflation
* is the key factor in a country's economic well-being
  - issue in software development
* is the key to increasing our standard of living
  - noninflationary growth
  - real wage and employment growth
  - marker of a successful economy and productivity is manifested in competition
  - measure of what gets done
  - most important inflation fighting factor in the economy
  - output of the economy per unit of labour input
  - pivot of social progress
  - quality of the product as seen from the customer point of view
* is the rate at which an ecosystem can accumulate new organic material
  - ecosystem can accumulate new organic matter
* is the ratio of output produced to the amount of input used
  - outputs to the resources invested to produce it
  - real engine behind the economy
  - relationship of output to input
  - ultimate driver of our standard of living
  - value of output produced by a day of work or a dollar of capital invested
* is, of course, measured by the ability of a firm to produce more with less.
* key concern for both manufacturing and service organizations.
* leads to resources.
* means getting more from the resources being expended, namely being efficient
  - making a contribution to one's own household, neighborhood, and community
  - to produce or capable of producing
* measure of average real output
  - ecosystem function
* measure of the economic impact of a unit of a person's time
  - economy's efficiency, technically, worker output per hour
* measurement of the performance of activities.
* measures the amount of output per hour of work
  - that workers produce per hour
  - relationship between cost of input and the output gained
* needs to be shared equally by all, and distributed in the form of a social income.
* promotes wealth.
* ratio, a comparison of what is produced and what is used to produce it.
* refers to the amount of plant and animal life that can be produced within the lake.
* reflects differences.
* represents some measure of output divided by employee input.
* result of efficient organization.
* revolves around management issues, such as motivation and accountability.
* rises in booms and falls in recessions.
* tends to increase when employees stretch or exercise at work.
* usually increases over time.
* varies directly with particle velocity
  - greatly from year to year, affected mostly by weather
* way of life, and it can be applied everywhere.
+ Economics, General economic rules
  * The living standard of a country depends on the skills to produce services and goods. Productivity is the amount of the produced goods divided by total working hours.