Essay - Long-term Productivity in Business Workers and Machinery Introduction Productivity Is...

Long-Term Productivity in Business Workers and Machinery

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***** is important to every kind of business. Th***** does not mean that every possible bit of work has to be squeezed out of ***** single *****er until they drop into an exhausted heap on the assembly line. Indeed, this would certainly not be productive ********** having to replace on a c*****tinual basis workers who quit from being exhausted - not to mention having ***** settle disability suits - is hardly the goal of *****y business.

Productivity means getting the most out ***** one's machines and workers on a long-term basis. Sometimes ***** means that everyone has to put in overtime. Sometimes this ***** that people need to spend an afternoon star*****g out ***** window ***** thinking up new ideas. It all depends *****on the ***** involved *****d the stage of a project th*****t business and that worker is at.

Something th***** every business can benefit from in terms of increased productivity is an adaptation ***** the ISO 9000 standards. However, these ***** are most effective if they are in fact adopted as part of an over***** operations m*****agement strategy. Both po*****ts will be discussed *****low.

Most people outside of the world ***** industry have never heard of ***** 9000 Certification, and yet this system - ***** similar systems ***** standardization - are integral ***** a number of the ********** that we pursue each day and are central to the way that business ***** industry will be conducted in ***** 21st century.

Quality Management

Much has been written about the process whereby a business (whether in the high*****tech field or in one ***** the m*****e traditional heavy industries) can create a system of quality management. While ***** type of industry and business must determine ***** details of ***** management for itself and each individual ***** must fine tune those requirements ***** its own particular needs, it is possible to make some general statements about the process of quality control - which are all tied in more or less direct ways to a systematic application by the company's executives of ***** concept of st*****ardization.

The business leader who wishes to run his or her business at anything approaching maximum efficiency must establish, document, implement, and maintain a qu*****lity management system ***** thereafter continually improve ***** effectiveness by:

Mapping, controlling and analyzing processes,

- providing the necessary resources,

- implementing and continually improving processes.

One of ***** axioms of quality control for the production ***** of a company or ***** ***** *****ly been summarized as taking care of the "five M's": men, machines, methods, materials, and money. The first ***** these is now obviously no longer properly an "M" since it must include women (of course, ***** have al***** done at least have of the labor in human societies), but the uni*****mity ***** the acronym remains appealing. Since the vast majority of manufacturing personnel work in the physical ***** of goods, "people management" ***** one of the production manager's most important responsibilities ***** takes