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Excerpt from Corporate Management of Productivity: An International Comparison
This paper reports the results of a study of the corporate management of productivity. The purpose of the study was to begin to formulate answers to the following general questions: At a corporate level, how do managements view productivity; are they concerned about it; if so, what is causing the concern; and what approaches are being taken to the management of productivity? The primary focus of the study was major US industrial firms. However, to provide a richer basis for interpreting corporate responses to productivity, data from US firms was compared with data from similar firms in Britain and Japan. The results indicate a considerable degree of concern about productivity among corporate managements in all three countries, but the acuteness of the concern is more pronounced in Britain and Japan than in the United States. Attitudes and formal managerial approaches are more similar between US and UK managements than between either of these and Japanese managements. One notable difference between the US and UK responses is the single - minded degree to which the UK managements define productivity in labor-efficiency terms; US managements are more diffuse in their interpretation. The Japanese managements project a functionally-balanced, systemic viewpoint, and appear strongly committed to seeking solutions to productivity problems in a long-term framework. In short, to the Japanese managements productivity seems simply to be a perspective from which to appraise overall Corporate strategy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
