One of the topics discussed in this module is \u201cProductivity Gain.\u201d An organization makes some sort of change, sometimes at great expense, but then guess what? Nobody ever sits down and figures out whether the change accomplished what it was supposed to. A prime example is management consulting. A group of experts from McKelvey, or wherever, parachute in, give some seminars, present their bill, and then disappear. A year later, the managers who paid for that particular invasion (\u2026er, intervention) have no idea what, if anything, it accomplished.<\/p>\n
Of course, we can all come up with more prosaic examples. Husband to wife: \u201cIf we had a new SUV, the family could take more road trips.\u201d The wife agrees. There\u2019s a new SUV in the garage, but did the trips ever materialize? Another example: Wife to husband: \u201cIf I had a new stove, I\u2019d cook sooooo many more meals at home. It would pay for itself in a year.\u201d The husband agrees. There\u2019s a new stove in the kitchen, but did the meal savings ever materialize?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the point. Every one of the management tools discussed in this course require some sort of management decision right up front\u2014which is, the decision to actually use it<\/b>. In the case of productivity and productivity gain, that decision involves collecting before\/after data, and then determining whether there actually was<\/b> a gain.<\/p>\n General Note: To earn maximum credit, you should post to the module discussion board in the first week of each module. There\u2019s no reason not to, because the discussions are non-technical. Each topic is intended to get us thinking about the type of management problem discussed in each module. The topics don\u2019t require any research, or any prior knowledge of management; they\u2019re based upon our own, mundane experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the topics discussed in this module is \u201cProductivity Gain.\u201d An organization makes some sort of change, sometimes at great expense, but then guess what? Nobody ever sits down and figures out whether the change accomplished what it was Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n