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Subject: What causes low productivity
Category: Business and Money > Economics
Asked by: bren-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 03 Oct 2002 05:14 PDT
Expires: 04 Oct 2002 05:12 PDT
Question ID: 71983
If a company has low productivity dus to job satisfaction in a
corporation . What type of research would help develop a plan to solve
it.  What would make research fail research causing management to make
in adequate conclusions.
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Subject: Re: What causes low productivity
From: bluebeard-ga on 03 Oct 2002 05:28 PDT
 
I'm not sure exactly what your question is asking, but I'll try and
give you an overview of it as I see it.

If employees are dissatisfied with their jobs, this affects their
productivity. Peter Drucker provides many clues as to how to tackle
this kind of problem.

Determining WHY employees dislike their job is a major problem. It
could be that the pay is inadequate, or more likely that the employees
may dislike something surrounding the management culture, or they may
feel disenchanted with their jobs as a whole.

To combat this, it might be a good idea for the management to survey
employees as to what that like and dislike about their jobs.

I'd like to emphasise that Peter Drucker has written alot more about
this problem than I've outlined here. You should check him out :)
Subject: Re: What causes low productivity
From: bren-ga on 03 Oct 2002 08:49 PDT
 
I am working on a research project about  the following:
 I have been given the problem of being confronted with low
productivity. I have been asked to reserach the  job satisfaction in
the corporation. Then explain why my research project may fail to
provide an adequate contribution to the solution of my problem.
Subject: Re: What causes low productivity
From: magikcamel-ga on 03 Oct 2002 17:23 PDT
 
theres a company my friend worked for, they found that there was low
productivity due to stress, so the boss offered a hug to anyone who
wanted one.  it took a while for the first person to do it, but it
caught on, and productivity went back up. not really a statistical
answer but you never know
Subject: Re: What causes low productivity
From: bluebeard-ga on 03 Oct 2002 20:34 PDT
 
Well, if you want to research job satisfaction, you could always try
'talking' to the employees directly :)
.
One of the problems of doing surveys is that they are standardised;
everyone fills out the same form. You might be better off informally
asking people what they like and dislike about their job, the company,
their boss, the working environment, etc. It would also help to do the
same to managers. But not only should you find out whether the lower
level managers are happy, but also ask them what they THINK the
problem is. Quite often employers and employees can have very
different ideas about what's really going on.
.
One common source of dissatisfaction is 'impediments'. Employees
typically just want to be able to do their job, and can become
disheartened when there are managerial or political obstructions.
.
Now, as to why your research might not yield an 'adequate
contribution' is quite simple. It could very well be that the answer
you come up with is unpalatable to management. But I wouldn't write
that in your report ;)

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