For those who would want to start with being productive, it would be best to start with self-assessment and follow these tips that can help you get started with this wonderful and amazing journey: - Discover and re-discover your purpose in life. Indeed, the most powerful thing that can help a person get started with self-assessment is discovering your cause or your purpose in life. One is a physical measure where the total number of cars made in a period of time is divided by the number of worker-hours spent in producing them. The other way is a monetary measure. It is the total dollar value of cars produced in a given period of time divided by the total number of worker-hours needed to assemble them. Technology, however, always improves. Economic productivity will depend on pricing and demand. If the consumers require less products that can be produced potentially, plants will not work at full productive capacity. Economic productivity can fall together with decreasing demands and prices. At the macro-economic level, labor productivity (GDP per worker) depends on the corresponding dynamics of two factors: GDP and employment. Resistance Historically, productivity measurement systems are almost always not welcome to managers and workers alike. The strongest objection to measurement of knowledge worker productivity is inaccuracy of the results. This productivity measurement is very valuable as a dynamic gauge, not a static measure. Rather, it was raising the proportion of workers in making decisions in the work place (regular meetings, etc.) that showed a positive impact on labor productivity. Profit-sharing In manufacturing plants with profit-sharing schemes for non-managerial workers, there was a 7% higher labor productivity shown compared with their competitors in the same field. In the same quarter, output and productivity growth rates in the Euro Area turned negative following the traditional pattern that employment growth does not adjust as quickly to a deteriorating economy in Europe as it does in the U.S. Presently, productivity growth rates in advanced economies are falling below historical structural productivity trends.