Productivity and Quality Management

During eight years ABC Construction Company has normally focused in construction of buildings within the commercial, industrial and multifamily markets in the Southeast of the United States. Normally, the company was used to deal with small and medium companies requiring short-term work, taking from one day to a month to complete. In the last year customer composition has changed; ABC Construction has now large architectural, commercial and public utilities as customers, and some of them are requiring all contractors and subcontractors to set up a quality management initiative that meets their own quality management systems. Their

Productivity refers to what can be produced at a given time with the least resources and effort. Productivity can also be defined as the ratio that estimates ho properly an organization converts its resources into goods/services or financial results such as profit. Workplace settings can be perceived as the pressures, situations, stresses, aggressive, demographic, social, regulations and technological elements that affect the operations, survival, and growth of organizations.

With the focus on efficiency and work, productivity may only be beneficial to the bottom line of the budget. According to Gustafson (2000) stated:

Total quality management is a management philosophy aimed at continuous growth in quality improvement of products, processes and services to achieve and surpass quality standards. It consists of strategic planning, organizing and implementing each process activity and of removing all the wasted effort and energy that is routinely spent. It is a methodology of strategic overview of quality and focus on prevention not detection of problems.

Productivity is the amount of resources a business uses, such as labor and capital, to create its end result or purpose of operation. It measures output per unit of input. A real life example could be, an assembly line. When another person is added to an assembly line, more outputs are expected. Therefore, the assembly line is more productive. I think that productivity is crucial to having a successful business. A business should do whatever they can to maximize productivity because the more productive the business is, the larger profits will be for the business, which creates a profitable and very successful business.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss programs that are implemented to improve the care of the elderly population, especially in nursing homes. Throughout the paper, the general changes that the older adults go through their life will be discussed. Overview of five articles that are related to the elements of Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) will be given. Furthermore, this paper will examine physical and emotional changes that elderly go through. It will also focus on quality and improvement initiatives that can take place in different care facilities. A personal reflection of writers’ experience of quality improvement in the place of work related to older patients will conclude this discussion.

Through that conversation, Alex realized that “productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal” ( 1992). Alex thought the company’s goal is to increase efficiencies but he later realized that every company’s goal, including his plant, is to make money or to be profitable and anything that comes closer to the goal is considered as productive.

One organization that has become successful in many aspects of satisfaction and quality is Wal-Mart. This organization started out providing basic products to customers during certain hours of the day and evening, and then expanded the become Wal-Mart Supercenters by also providing groceries and becoming a 24-hour establishment. By making these changes in their organization, Wal-Mart has provided superior satisfaction to both its internal and external customers. To better understand Wal-Mart’s level of quality and customer satisfaction, Learning Team C has

An outline of productivity to help you optimise everyday tasks and even outsource almost everything in your life and be a lot more effective and possibly happy

Productivity is “the measure of how much an average worker produces in an hour” (Cornwall); the government actually tracks this. This number isn’t super flashy and doesn’t get reported about a lot in the news, but productivity growth is extremely important in the long run. Productivity growth makes society as a whole get better. Higher productivity means more and better products are made with the same amount of work.

Workplace productivity is essential to the employees, employers, organisation and economy. By maximising and improving a workplaces productivity the company will not only will have a higher chance of success, but the employees will know their task and complete it well. Some ways to increase the

The productivity of any organization depends on the satisfaction of the employees, as happier employees also make more profit as they work faster and harder.

When reading the book The Goal written by Eliyahu Goldratt, there were many lessons that I learned in order to have a clear and concise understanding of a positive level of productivity in a company. To have a positive level of productivity there are may components that are taken into consideration. Understanding what it actually means to be productive and how to increase the level of productivity by knowing the actual goal of the company that is trying to be reached and the components that go into the process of being productive. There are many factors that contribute to the level of productivity and being able to identify these factors is the key ingredient to having a successful level of productivity.

Materials or labor intensive: when most production expenses go to raw materials or labor (are variable, variable costs)

In a recent dialogue with some two hundred trade union leaders in Singapore, National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) Secretary-General, Mr. Lim Swee Say commented that it was an improvement that the nation's productivity increased from -2 to zero from 2012 to 2013. He went on to urge unions and organisations to turn productivity into positive in 2014 so as not to lose grounds to competitors as Singapore gears herself for recovery from the financial crisis in 2008 (Poh, E. 2014).