BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY AS AN ISSUE
Productivity – the rate at which goods or services are produced especially output per unit of labour.
WHY DOES IT COME ABOUT?
Poor Organizational Management
Low productivity in the workplace often results from general disorganization in any one department. When disorganization occurs, productivity suffers and tasks fail to get completed, time is wasted, communication between employees suffers, and the lines of customer service are broken. Good management can have the opposite effect, as efficient and intelligent decision-making can help improve productivity and raise overall efficiency.
The 2005 Workplace Productivity Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management found that almost six out of ten (58%) Americans identified poor management as the biggest obstacle to productivity. This seems to be the case with New Zealand businesses to.
Poor organisational skills can mean that people spend more time clearing their desk or trying to find documents and spending a lot of time being non-productive, causing the businesses productivity to suffer. Good organisational skills assist with efficiency and productivity. Disorganization can cause employees to confuse dates, mix up assignments, and miss deadlines and, this makes them unreliable and undependable.
“Time is money” this saying is so true in the business world. Time is a valuable resource that can be very costly to a business when it is wasted. Poor organizational skills influence an employee’s ability to manage their time well. This has a tendency to result in a failure to prioritize assignments, complete projects on time and prepare your day-to-day activities.
Conflict in the Workplace
Conflict in the workplace is a painful reality and a key reason for poor productivity. Conflict is defined as a difference of wants, needs, or expectations. The workplace is filled with people who have differences of wants, needs, and expectations. So, of