Amount of Output for an Hour of Work
May 8, 2008 -
Productivity for all of 2007 rose by 1.8%, up from 1% gain in
2006 (far below growth levels of past decade as productivity
rebounded, reflected investments in equipment to improve
efficiency (computers).
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/08/business/20080508_econA_graph.jpg)
(AT&T), Leonard A. Schlesinger ... [et al.]
(1987).
Chronicles of Corporate Change: Management Lessons from AT&T and
Its Offspring. (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 254 p.).
American Telephone and Telegraph Company--Reorganization;
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company; Telephone companies--United
States; Telecommunication--United States; Organizational
effectiveness.
(Baltimore & Ohio), David M. Vrooman (1991).
Daniel Willard and Progressive Management on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad. (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University
Press, 218 p.). Willard, Daniel, 1861-1942; Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company--Management--History; Railroads--United
States--Management--History; Corporate culture--United
States--History; Organizational effectiveness--History.
(GE), Rosanne Badowski with Roger Gittines;
foreword by Jack Welch (2003).
Managing Up: How To Forge an Effective Relationship with Those
Above You. (New York, NY: Currency, 215 p.). Executive
Assistant to Jack Welch for 10 Years. Welch, Jack, 1935- ;
Managing your boss; Interpersonal relations; Career development.
William J. Abernathy (1978).
The Productivity Dilemma: Roadblock to Innovation in the
Automobile Industry. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 267 p.). Automobile industry and trade--United
States; Labor productivity--United States; Technological
innovations--United States.
John G. Belcher, Jr. (1987).
Productivity Plus +: How Today's Best Run Companies Are Gaining
the Competitive Edge. (Houston, TX: Gulf Pub. Co., 237
p.). Industrial productivity; Industrial management.
Craig J. Cantoni (1993).
Corporate Dandelions: How the Weed of Bureaucracy Is Choking
American Companies--and What You Can Do To Uproot It.
(New York, NY: AMACOM, 162 p.). Bureaucracy--United States;
Organizational effectiveness; Industrial productivity--United
States.
eds. Kim B. Clark, Robert H. Hayes,
Christopher Lorenz (1985).
The Uneasy Alliance: Managing the Productivity-Technology
Dilemma. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 485
p.). Industrial productivity; Industrial efficiency;
Technological innovations.
Michael L. Dertouzos (1989).
Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge.
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 344 p.). Industrial
productivity--United States; Technological innovations--Economic
aspects--United States; Research, Industrial--United States;
Competition, International.
Mark Green and John F. Berry (1985).
The Challenge of Hidden Profits: Reducing Corporate Bureaucracy
and Waste. (New York, NY: Morrow, 453 p.). Industrial
productivity--United States; Industrial efficiency--United
States; Waste (Economics)--United States.
Richard K. Lester (1998).
The Productive Edge: How U.S. Industries Are Pointing the Way to
a New Era of Economic Growth. (New York, NY: Norton, 368
p.). MIT. Industrial productivity--United States.
Ralph H. Mitroff and Ralph H. Kilmann (1984).
Corporate Tragedies: Product Tampering, Sabotage, and Other
Catastrophes. (New York, NY: Praeger, 140 p.).
Organizational effectiveness.
L. William Seidman and Steven L. Skancke
(1990).
Productivity the American Advantage: How 50 U.S. Companies Are
Regaining the Competitive Edge. (New York, NY: Simon &
Schuster, 251 p. [rev. ed.]). Competition; Industrial
management; Industrial productivity; Industrial
productivity--United States--Case studies.
Tony J. Watson (2000).
In Search of Management: Culture, Chaos and Control in
Managerial Work. (New York, NY: Int. Thomson Business
Press, 256 p. [rev. ed]). Management; Organizational
effectiveness.
James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones (1996).
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your
Corporation. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 350 p.).
Consultant, British Academic, respectively. Organizational
effectiveness; Industrial efficiency; Value added.
