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Productivity - to some, the word prompts images of smoothly running processes and operations displaying efficiency to an extent that borders on sheer perfection and beauty. Others react with anger when someone mentions productivity. To them, productivity is equivalent with having to work harder for less pay, lay-offs and the like. What is this mysterious concept of productivity? How did it start and what has it come to mean?
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© 1995 Bjørn Andersen, Harald Bredrup, Reinholdt Bredrup, Ann-Charlott Pedersen, Karianne Prytz, Asbjørn Rolstadås, Tim Torvatn
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Andersen, B. (1995). The Productivity Term. In: Rolstadås, A. (eds) Performance Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1212-3_1
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