MANAGERIAL ASPECTS OF

PRODUCTIVITY
PRESENTED BY: Sandip
Prashant
Sheakab
Ashish
Manish
• Efforts to increase in Productivity needs to focus
more on Managerial Productivity

• Has been ignored for decades, and was only focuses

until Recession had hit the world
 Job elaborations; make work for executive.

 Specialization at work.

 Poorly designed reward systems.

 Hierarchies tend to grow taller.

 Need for self maintaining work flow systems.

 Coping with unanticipated technical problems.

GAIN SHARING
• In simple words, gain sharing means to share the gains
of an organization with its employees.

• Can be introduced for a lot of reasons:

– Transform manager employee relations
– Boost productivity levels
– Increase the employee commitment
– and many more…
o Strategic bases for gain sharing

o Introducing gain sharing

o Initial seminar
o Feasibility study
o Review feasibility study and plan design
o Implementation
o Evaluation
 STEP 1 STEP 2
Stop/
Initial Feasibility Study STEP 3
Go
Seminar Is it appropriate? Review
Is it feasible? feasibility study
How should the plan findings
be designed?
FEEDBACK

Continue/
Stop/
Modify/
Go
Terminate

STEP 6 STEP 5 STEP 4

Evaluation Monitoring Implementation
GROUP EFFECTIVENESS
• What matters in Group effectiveness
• 1) Task interdependence

• 2) Outcome Interdependence

• 3) Potency
 A Model of Determinants of Work
Group Effectiveness

Task Interdependence Outcome Interdependence Potency

Group Task Effectiveness

= Effect
= Feedback
How to improve group
performance:

• Defining the group goal

• Determination of resources

• Type of group
Barriers of Teamwork
 Eight Barriers of Teamwork
• 1)Breakdown in probing
• 2) Promotional Leadership
• 3) Intra-team Conflict
• 4) Insufficient Alternatives
• 5) Lack of Candor
• 6) Pointless Meetings
• 7) Lack of Self Critique
• 8) Failure to Cycle Downwards
• 1) Breakdown in Probing
- People fail in getting out correct information.
- Ask open ended questions
- Go for Summaries, neutral probes, Reflective Statements
• 2) Promotional Leadership
-Boss must not give his/her view before meeting.
- Decision should be taken on the view of the entire panel
- Everyone should be allowed to speak.
• 3) Intra-team Conflict
-Members should give priority to organization's Goal
-Private agendas disrupt team spirit and leads to conflict
• 4) Insufficient alternatives
- All the alternatives should be considered
- Enough brainstorming to generate back up options
- Select the best idea instead of good idea.
• 5) Lack of Openness
- Personal reasons for keeping quiet.
- Intra-team politics-safe to keep mouth shut.
• 6) Pointless meetings
-Too many meetings disrupt the clear goal.
• 7) Lack of Self Critique
- Employee blames on the system and the management.
- Create a SWOT Analysis of oneself and the entire Team.
• 8) Failure to Cycle Downwards
- Clear Communication of ideas till the lower level.s
- Whose collaboration is required and why.
TEAM BUILDING WITHOUT
TEARS
 Team Building Without Tears

Commitment to team building means keeping score

There are some ways to improve the team and and keep score
at the same time :
1.Enjoy it
2.Sharing responsibility

Sharing laughter and team symbols are sign of oneness

1.Symbolize it
2.Organize it
Make it clear everyone is long-term member of
the team:
1. Organize individuals
2. Personal styles
3. Eliminating institutional hierarchy
4. Every one is part of same team
5. Unity of purpose
6. Model it
TEAM THAT WORKS
TOGETHER
EARNS TOGETHER
• Popular Method
-Preparation of Merit budget
-Distribution based on assessment of Manager

• Group Incentive Programmes

- Rewards the performance and productivity in work units

• Performance and Productivity

- Proper measurement of performance and Productivity
- Distribute the rewards in Groups