Productivity: You found that the productivity is declining the past two years at your organization. Measure the multifactor productivity for the current period and compare it to the previous period. Comment on your results showing what might lead to decreasing the productivity and show how can you improve the productivity at your organization.

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SUPPOSE THAT You are hired as an operations manager for an organization

which is having some problems, and you are supposed to help them to put things back on track. In order to do so, there are a number of decisions you have to take regarding the following issue:

  • Productivity: You found that the productivity is declining the past two years at your organization. Measure the multifactor productivity for the current period and compare it to the previous period. Comment on your results showing what might lead to decreasing the productivity and show how can you improve the productivity at your organization.
  • You are supposed to estimate the all the needed numbers.  

     

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