Unit 1 Introduction

3 lecture hours

• Productivity basic concepts: Partial
• Total Factor productivity
• Types of productivity measure: Single
• productivity cycle
• Productivity: Some perspectives

Unit 2 Productivity Models

4 lecture hours

• Kendrick-creamer model
• Craig-Harris model
• American productivity center model
• Productivity accounting model

Unit 3 Productivity Measurement Models

10 lecture hours

• Models of productivity measurement Production function models
• Financial ratios
• Production based models
• Product oriented models
• Surrogate models
• Economic based model
• Models based on systems approach
• Productivity measurement at International
• National and Organizational level
• total productivity models
• Productivity management in manufacturing and service sector
• Productivity Evaluation models
• Productivity improvement models and techniques

Unit 4 Productivity Measurement

5 lecture hours

• A Conceptual framework: MBO and Productivity measurement
• Key Performance Area in MBO, Performance Objectives-Productivity (PO-P) Model
• its methodology
• Productivity indices

Unit 5 Productivity Measurement in Manufacturing Sector

• Productivity Measurement in Small Size
• Medium Size and in Large 5 10 Size Organization considering KPA’s
• performance objectives and productivity indices calculations for these case to be studied

Unit 6 PO-P application

3 lecture hours

• Productivity Measurement in Service Sector: Need for measuring productivity in service sector
• Productivity of an R & D System & Educational institution

Unit 7 Productivity Management and Implementation Strategies

3 lecture hours

• Productivity policy
• Productivity measurement evaluation
• Productivity improvement strategies: Organizational
• Human and Technological

Unit 8 Introduction to Business Process reengineering

5 lecture hours

• Basics of BPR, Need for reengineering
• Benefits of BPR, Breakthrough reengineering model
• BPR guiding principles
• Key target of BPR, BPR in manufacturing industries

Unit 9 BPR Implementation Methodology

5 lecture hours

• BPR methodology
• different phases of BPR, BPR methodology selection guidelines
• different BPR methodologies and its comparison
• BPR success factors
• Barriers to BPR, BPR and relevant technologies

Unit 10 Green Productivity

2 lecture hours

• Green productivity and ways to measure green productivity
• Feedback tools and system
• Integrated Management of Productivity Activities (IMPACT Model)
• Productivity Indicators
• Integrated Approach to Productivity Measurement