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Quick Tips to Increase Productivity
Researchers have found that younger workers work much more efficiently when allowed to choose their own pace. Older, more experienced workers, on the other hand, work at about the same efficiency whether or not they set their own pace.
They recommends that’s job be matched to workers’ temperaments. And, if teamwork is required, make up team consisting only of people who set their own pace and another for those who like the pace set for them. Never a mixed group, because everyone gets slowed down.
Turn Internal Rivalries to Productivity
Internal rivalries are a fact of life in any business, but intense internal competition robs a company of the aggressive energy it needs to fight its real, external competition. To turn rivalries into productive energy:
1. Establish clear assignments, boundaries, and expectations for employees.
2. Create a reporting structure that mirrors individual abilities, so that they have a good reason to follow their bosses direction or orders.
3. Identify the real “enemy” – competition and issues, such as production problems, that employees need to address as team.
Productivity Insight
There are two types of productivity, both necessary to world-class operation:
- Working harder – doing more by pushing ourselves to get more done
- Innovation and creating better ways of doing things – using discretionary time to expand our abilities.
The first type boost efficiency of existing assets, while the second expands the assets themselves. Companies need both to reach their potential.
The Right Way to Rotate Work Shifts
Work-shift rotation should always go forward – a day shift, followed by an evening shift, followed by a night shift. Any other pattern is harder for employees to adjust to, causing productivity loss and safety hazards as the dangers of an employee falling asleep on the job increase.
Night-shift workers virtually always are getting by on minimal sleep, so they should be scheduled for no more than five days at a stretch. The popular seven-days-on/four-days-off cycle leads to serious sleep deprivation.
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