Prokopenko Joseph. Productivity Management: A Practical Handbook

Labour Organisation, 1992. — 287 p.This book offers a new, refreshing approach to productivity: why it is important, and how to manage and measure it. It deals in a stimulating way with such productivity improvement programmes as action learning, quality circles, inter-firm comparisons, and business clinics, and offers information on the most important areas in which productivity can be improved (quality maintenance, waste reduction and human resource management) and on a number of techniques which have been field-tested by enterprises and in ILO projects. Dealing with such productivity improvement programmes as action learning, quality circles, inter-firm comparisons and business clinics, this book also offers information on the most important areas in which productivity can be improved and on techniques field-tested in developing countries.