In the conducted studies, the other issues factored in included the size and age of the business, material inputs, capital stock, workers experience, and capacity utilization. Findings The studies were done to check the factors that determine labor productivity for a given period, the size of capital stocks needed for material use, the equipments, and the workplace practices. Relative measure For all its many forms, productivity is a relative measure because it is used to compare the effectiveness of many entities. These can be countries, organizations, departments, or individuals. From the perspective of a system, productivity shows how well an organization transforms its inputs into outputs. People were worried that the cutbacks were just the beginning and that more layoffs were soon to follow. In an effort to keep their jobs, the people worked harder than before to at least put on a picture that they are worth keeping as employees. Negative motivations On the other hand, both of these motivating factors are unfortunately short-term situations. Goals are sometimes very simple and sometimes very complicated and hard to achieve. Nobody would ever say attaining a goal would be easier than setting it. It is true. Achieving or realizing goals would prove to very hard and ardent than actually setting and formulating them. But you need to ramp them to start bolstering your overall productivity. This further suggests that the productivity of the remaining workers and firms is actually strengthening. Traditional productivity growth rates During the run-up of 2008, the Euro Area showed a surprisingly weak productivity growth (below 1%). This was attributed to the large increases in employment coming from a relatively large labor reserve pool. Also, if one has a positive outlook in life, he or she will be able to turn failures into successes by seizing each opportunity that knock on the door. This might be simple but many people are still having difficulties in achieving this because of so many factors such as personality, upbringing, and ways of managing stress as well as failure.