One of the biggest challenges that organizations are faced with is improving or maintaining productivity levels especially in these difficult times where employees are faced with pressures of their own and possibilities of a retrenchment exercise.
It is true that organizations are going to survive this economic slump by maintaining or improving productivity levels. But what is productivity? Simply put, productivity is achieving your targets with less effort and less may be people, money, energy/electricity etc.
If you were to visualize it; it would look like a mathematical fraction with your numerator being those things that you need to do more of and your denominator as those things you need to do less of. The challenge with many organizations who want to qualify or to improve their productivity is that many know that something has to change in the organization but many do not know what needs to change or more importantly, what it needs to change to. So what do they do? They embark on an organizational change management project which of course will not yield results and that is purely because of the foundation questions of what needs to change and to what it needs to change to were not answered.
Whether it’s change of leadership, shop-floor staff training or even changing how we do things in order to improve productivity, we need to be clear on what we want to achieve and how it will make us a more productive organisation.
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