Productivity Science - Some Hypothesis like Statements

"When large companies get Agile right, the results can be stunning. Productivity can improve by a factor of three. Employee engagement, measured in quantitative surveys, increases dramatically too. New product features can be released within weeks or months rather than quarters or years. Rates of innovation rise, while the number of defects and do-overs declines. In the first year after going Agile, one bank’s development team increased the value delivered per dollar spent by 50%, simultaneously cutting development time in half and improving employee engagement by one-third."


Five Secrets to Scaling Up Agile
FEBRUARY 19, 2016 by Kaj Burchardi, Peter Hildebrandt, Erik Lenhard, Jérôme Moreau, and Benjamin Rehberg
https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/technology-digital-people-organization-five-secrets-scaling-up-agile/

Behavioral Approach to Productivity - Behavioral Variables and Productivity

"Behavioral strategies to improve productivity"
Gary P.Latham, Larry L.Cummings, and Terence R.Mitchell,
Organizational Dynamics
Volume 9, Issue 3, Winter 1981, Pages 5-23


Hum Resour Manage. 1983 Jan-Feb;13(1):1-5.
"Behavioral science approaches to improving productivity."

Shortell SM.

Abstract
We have suggested that improving the productivity of an individual or of one group of workers is not the same thing as improving the productivity of the organization overall. Further, because work units in hospitals are interdependent, attempts to improve productivity ultimately involve a reexamination of the organization's values and culture. Until this fundamental realization occurs, little can be done to improve the organization's productivity. As such, productivity is not simply a day-to-day managerial issue as a long-term leadership issue. Thus, we ought to begin mapping out productivity strategies for the long run. Some of the elements of such a strategy have been highlighted.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10258195


Aubrey C. Daniels "Performance management: The behavioral approach to productivity improvement"
Global Business and Organizational Excellence
Volume 4, Issue 3, Summer 1985, Pages 225–236


ROLE OF MOTIVATION IN HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY
S.K. Srivastava & Kailash Chandra Barmola
SMS Varanasi,  Vol. VII, No. 1; June, 2011

Evidence-Based Productivity Improvement: A Practical Guide to the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System (ProMES)
Robert D. Pritchard, Sallie J. Weaver, Elissa Ashwood
Routledge, 04-May-2012 - Psychology - 316 pages
This new book explains the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement system (ProMES) and how it meets the criteria for an optimal measurement and feedback system. It summarizes all the research that has been done on productivity, mentioning other measurement systems, and gives detailed information on how to implement this one in organizations. This book will be of interest to behavioral science researchers and professionals who wish to learn more about the practical methods of measuring and improving organizational productivity.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=hzaia0WL_oQC


2014
Enhancing Strategies to Improve Workplace Performance
Thesis by Francine Williams Richardson
Walden University
http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1105&context=dissertations


2017
Nudge management: applying behavioural science to increase knowledge worker productivity
Philip Ebert and Wolfgang Freibichler
Journal of Organization Design2017  6:4
Published: 21 March 2017
https://jorgdesign.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41469-017-0014-1

Culture

Culture and Productivity - Bibliography

UK Productivity

2017

The UK currently lags behind its G7 competitors’ average productivity levels by an average of 18% - and 35% behind Germany. Poor management is estimated to cost the UK £84bn in lost productivity a year.

http://www.managers.org.uk/insights/news/2017/june/a-management-manifesto-for-the-uk-fixing-the-84bn-productivity-gap

Chartered Management Institute (CMI) proposed a management manifesto to improve management in UK and reclaim the 84 billion pounds lost in productivity due to poor management.

You can download the manifesto document from:

http://www.managers.org.uk/~/media/Files/PDF/CMI-Management-Manifesto.pdf

Cloud Computing - Productivity Science

Ozdemir A, Asil H (2017)
The Optimization of Query Processing in Sea Base Cloud Databases Based on CCEVP Model.
Ind Eng Manage 6:208. doi:10.4172/2169-0316.1000208

The increase in data volume in many applications and the need for their calculations are the database challenges. Cloud computing and the use of Sea Base databases are a solution to integrate a variety of DBMSs and integrated access to tables in databases. The study tried to optimize query processing in the Sea Base cloud database and reduce query processing time. The method used adaptability for optimization. The purpose of this method is to make adaptive the execution plans of high-traffic queries sent to the Sea Base. For adaptability, the method uses three parts: separator, similarity detector and replacement policy.  The results show that the system optimizes query processing in the database and reduces response time by one percent. The response time can be further decreased by changing the replacement policy.

https://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/the-optimization-of-query-processing-in-sea-base-cloud-databases-basedon-ccevp-model-2169-0316-1000208.php?aid=86516

Productivity - Journals

Journal of Productivity Analysis
https://link.springer.com/journal/11123

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijpqm

International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management
ISSN: 1741-0401
Previously published as: Work Study
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/ijppm/66/6

Journal of Productivity Analysis
https://ideas.repec.org/s/kap/jproda.html

International Journal of Productivity Management and Assessment Technologies (IJPMAT)
https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-productivity-management-assessment/45937

General - System Level Productivity Science

2017

FEBRUARY 16, 2017 by Jaap Backx, Christoph Hilberath, Reinhard Messenböck, Yves Morieux, and Henning Streubel
BCG Perspectives

Businesses compete in a world that is growing ever more complex. Disruptive technologies emerge with increasing frequency. Customers’ needs and demands change at breakneck speed. New competitors are always entering the fray.

In their attempts to reduce uncertainty and reestablish control amid this new complexity, companies tend to introduce new reports, new rules, and new processes. Such reactions, however, simply translate external complexity into internal “complicatedness”—the counterproductive proliferation of cumbersome structures, processes, and systems. Complicatedness hinders productivity by creating a work environment that leaves employees disengaged and unmotivated.

https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/people-organization-operations-mastering-complexity-through-simplification/

Knowledge Worker Productivity - Productivity Science

2017


Margaret Moussa, Mathew Bright, Maria Estela Varua, (2017) "Investigating knowledge workers’ productivity using work design theory", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 66 Issue: 6, pp.822-834.

The paper concludes by offering suggestions for a model suitable for examining the drivers of knowledge work productivity.

Survey instruments based on the recommended model potentially provide a valuable means for understanding and enhancing productivity in a variety of knowledge intensive service industries. The pronounced benefit of this model is that it is applicable in cross-industry and cross-occupational contexts, unlike many existing knowledge worker productivity models.
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-08-2016-0161


2013

Peter F. Drucker gave a call for knowledge worker productivity.

Can IEs do some things in that area?

http://www.iiewest.org/2013/02/clarion-call-to-ies-lets-improve-knowledge-worker-productivity/


Raise the productivity of interaction workers—high-skill knowledge workers, including managers and professionals—by 20 to 25 percent by using social technologies internally and externally.


Updated 5 August 2017, 6 August 2013