Productivity Concepts and Measures Productivity is an overall measure of the ability to produce a good or service. More specifically, productivity is the measure of how specified resources are managed to accomplish timely objectives as stated in terms...

Productivity is the result or the sum of all effort that it takes to deliver a product or service. Productivity is frequently referred to as output and, to some degree, can be measured. The output generated by a person, organization, or other entity is...

in economics, the ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it. Usually this ratio is in the form of an average, expressing the total output of some category of goods divided by the total input of, say, labour or raw materials. In...

Productivity represents a relationship between the inputs used in a productive process and the output they generate. It is increases in productivity which make possible growth in income per head. A considerable amount of work has gone into an analysis...

Productivity is an ecological term referring to the fixation of solar energy by plants and algae, and the subsequent utilisation of that fixed energy (or biomass) by plant-eating herbivores, animal-eating carnivores, and detritivores that feed upon...

In economics, a measure of productive efficiency calculated as the ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it. Any of the traditional factors of production—land, labour, or capital—can be used as the denominator of the...

The amount of real output produced by one unit of a factor input. Labour and capital productivities have been extensively studied to understand the process of economic growth and the international trade performance of individual countries. US studies...

Output per unit of a factor input, e.g. output per person employed. To measure the PRODUCTIVITY of one factor of production requires holding other factors’ inputs constant—a difficult task, especially in the case of...

see surplus...

Productivity in economics is the ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce. Productivity is the measure on production efficiency. Productivity model is a measurement method which is used in practice for measuring...