What has been the change in productivity for the past 10 years? Why?
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Productivity in this country has gone down because too many of the youth entering the work force do not know anything at all.
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I think the average is usually 15% but many give 20% or \nmore. It's definitely on the increase. 10% was the old standard a decade or more ago.
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The Hawthorne effect would lead to higher productivity from having a less restrictive work environment.  This happens as long as the small group knows what is going on.
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Look at the charts\n\nAbout ten years ago!\n\nChris
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It increased productivity and led to increased wealth eventually as GDP per capita rose. This created the conditions for the rise of the middle class such as more professional and management jobs. In turn, bourgeois and mercantile views became more powerful as opposed to that of the aristocracy. This led to reforms as the Reform Act of 1832 shifting representation to the industrialised areas.
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The Hawthorne studies showed that any change in a work condition tended to improve production. That is they found that just by studding people (paying attention to them) their productivity improved,
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what about it?\ncheck out this link for general info on the 2004 $10USD
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Probably somewhat different, but not TOO much different than today.\n\nTechnology moves fast, big big things that completely change things (such as a human-computer bio interface) won't probably be around for 50+ years.\n\nOur computers will work faster, be smaller, and do more than they do now, but unfortunately, in 20 years, you probably won't be able to clip your computer to your ear as you're walking out the door.\n\nIf computers changed rapidly like that, the price would also go WAY up, to accommodate the highly changed technology.  So the tech companies will probably phase this technology in slowly.\n\nPretty sad.  But right now, I'd be happy with a 6 hour laptop battery that comes standard.
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alot less than it does now
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labour productivity increase results in increase in output per labourer....thus leading to production possibility frontier
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There probably is not one answer, but a lot of interpretations of policies, etc.  However, one clear effect was the huge military build up that sparked some industry in the US.  Whether this was good or bad for the economy in the eighties is up to interpretation.  It certainly slowed the growth of new, inventive economic strategies and policies.
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after 4 year,\n\nlets say in 2010.
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Less stress... every new technology breakthrough makes for more productivity demands on workers.
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Over the last decade, my whole career has been affected by computers.  I left my "real" job back in '96 to start an Internet Design company, which everyone told me was insane.  I worked and slaved over it for years, gained lots of clients, respect, awards, an office full of employees and then sold the company 2 years ago for a lot of $$$, and now I work out of my home as a freelancer helping other start-up companies do the same thing. \n\nWhen I was in college in the 80's, I never ever dreamed my life would turn into what it has.
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After WWII the US was at its highest productivity and that with Eisenhouwer.  FDR was no longer in office and it was about 15 yrs before LBJ (who came after Kennedy).
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As much as modern organizations would like to think things have changed, in reality the organizational pyramid is alive and well, with the workers on the bottome, supervisors in the middle, and managers on top.  While there is some cross functional work meaning managers doing tasks(remember the typing pool and "take a letter" days) the vast majority of decision making regarding the goals of the organization, future outlook, rules and regulations, are still done by upper management.  Organizatons tout the idea that "it's their people that make the difference" yet in reality, "their people" are no better than anyone else's people.  For all the hoopla about pushing decision making to the people closet to the work, for cross functional teaming, for empowering the worker, look around and see if that is really occurring where you work.  Modern Times still makes us laugh because not much has changed and the modern worker can relate to it, just as the worker 70 years ago did.
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Where have you been lets say the past decade? This question has been resolved.