noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
▪ Owing to reclamation, technological improvements and urbanization, agricultural productivity and the level of production rose during the period.
▪ From about 1690 agricultural productivity declined, and conditions were aggravated by the effects of war and recurrent subsistence crises.
▪ Secondly, some change may be organised from above in order to encourage agricultural productivity and curb social injustice.
▪ As a result, agricultural productivity and peasant living standards remained stagnant.
▪ Prewar production levels were not regained until the early 1950s, and not until even later were 1930s agricultural productivity levels exceeded.
▪ It would be tedious to multiply the statistics of growing agricultural output and productivity.
▪ We are funding the promotion of, and research into, improving traditional crops to increase agricultural productivity.
great
▪ The estate owners tightened their systems, with a view to greater productivity - new breeds, crops, implements and methods.
▪ Fourth, decentralized institutions generate higher morale, more commitment, and greater productivity.
▪ With greater productivity will come a more consistent product, improved site safety and reduced emissions.
▪ The authors also found that dismantling centralization leads to far greater quality, productivity, and profitability.
▪ In work organisations it is universally believed that cooperation is a Good Thing, and achieve greater productivity than lack of cooperation.
▪ But the soaring incomes of top executives are not the major issue in the great productivity slowdown.
▪ But there is evidence to suggest a minimum wage would contribute to greater productivity and industrial recovery.
▪ The division of labour itself was not, as economists had long held, caused by a desire for greater productivity.
high
▪ This is the way to build a high wage, high productivity country.
▪ He said those benefits include higher productivity, lower turnover, less absenteeism and stronger loyalty from the workforce.
▪ The new technology available in the 1970s offered the promise of massively reduced manning levels and higher productivity.
▪ Welfare commissioners, labor secretaries, commerce department staffers-all can shift resources into areas of higher productivity and yield.
▪ Business understands that continual criticism and complaint are not conducive to high motivation, high productivity and high quality.
▪ Economists consider some job losses inevitable, even healthy, because automation leads to higher levels of productivity.
▪ New technologies mean that high productivity is now possible with small-batch production.
▪ The workers repeatedly heard that management needed higher productivity lower costs, and a better safety record.
improved
▪ In return, we expect the industry to fight for its share of the electricity market by improved productivity.
▪ The benefits: greatly improved productivity and more effective decision making which will provide your business with an even greater competitive advantage.
▪ But there is no merit in improved productivity without any other sign of improved performance.
▪ Any future fleet changes are likely to reflect the importance of improved productivity, noise reduction and fuel economy.
increased
▪ On the upside, the move to concentrate thermal production in Pennsylvania helped margins through increased productivity.
▪ Embodied in these are the two elements of social justice and increased productivity.
▪ The major hard cost saving comes from reduced labour costs through increased productivity.
▪ The raising of skills to match rising investment will lead to increased productivity.
▪ At present domestic labour is organisationally inefficient because it is not socialised like the industrial sphere, which counterbalances increased productivity through mechanisation.
▪ Otherwise we shall see a continuing decline over and above that which increased productivity would normally dictate.
▪ The perceived reward for increased productivity is insecurity either through job loss or the necessity to learn new skills and be examined.
▪ This proved an undoubted incentive for increased productivity and output.
lost
▪ Sickness absence is a big problem both in terms of lost productivity and cost and in terms of employees' wellbeing.
▪ The restrictions on job-placement tests may be costing billions of dollars annually in lost productivity.
▪ Alcohol abuse undoubtedly has a cost, through treatment, accidents and lost productivity.
low
▪ The basic cause was low productivity, exacerbated by distribution difficulties and the inefficient transmission of information.
▪ Low wages mean low productivity, low motivation, too much poverty and a country in decline.
▪ It is harder to defeat the chronic low productivity of the state farms, and the frailties of the distribution chain.
▪ Sometimes, high producers become upset over the low productivity of others.
▪ A new disease was identified which had the symptoms of workplace disunity, low productivity, poor quality products.
▪ In many other sectors of low pay, however, the level of pay is reflected in low productivity.
▪ Countries with low productivity would have low wages.
▪ The excitement ended last year, when higher wages, an overvalued currency and lower productivity growth took their toll.
marginal
▪ To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.
total
▪ Recent evidence does indeed suggest that total factor productivity has increased during the 1980s.
▪ More specifically, considerable ambiguity attaches to the meaning of the term total factor productivity.
▪ Cambridge and Oxford show both high total productivity and high levels of achieving publication in the major journals.
■ NOUN
gain
▪ The only productivity gain that he can show for it is in the courts.
▪ Meanwhile, the problems of stagnant wages, low savings and sluggish productivity gains will remain unsolved.
growth
▪ Deflation hit productivity growth which slowed down somewhat.
▪ Yet faster productivity growth did not occur in the early seventies.
▪ These factors virtually doomed the United States to a period when the productivity growth rate would be less than the historic average.
▪ Three factors probably contributed to the decline in productivity growth.
▪ But fundamental economic factors turned more favorable to productivity growth in the 1980s and especially in the 1990s.
▪ Concentration in the literature on productivity growth tends to deflect attention from absolute differences in productivity.
▪ A key factor that most authorities assumed was inhibiting productivity growth in the white-collar sector was the lack of measurement.
improvement
▪ Investment in brand building, marketing, distribution and productivity improvement has again been increased.
▪ The profit margin rose on productivity improvements and increased sales of higher-margin on-site industrial gas plants.
▪ Although sales in its chemicals division fell, productivity improvements and the pound's devaluation enabled profits to remain virtually unchanged.
▪ Economists who have studied productivity improvement distinguish between what they see as two distinct sets of causes.
▪ Those results are particularly anemic when compared to the quality and productivity improvements which the most savvy practitioners prove are possible.
increase
▪ Fueling up can decrease errors, increase productivity, improve your mood and prevent binge eating later on.
labor
▪ We can also see that labor productivity increased slightly more than land productivity until 1992, then the relationship was reversed.
▪ In the mid-1980s, labor productivity in the white-collar sector was hardly growing at all.
▪ Thus, agricultural production can increase as a result of colonization, population growth and improvements in land and labor productivity.
▪ A dramatically lower savings rate, low growth rates in investment and labor productivity, and stagnating wages are a direct result.
▪ I expect that only land and labor productivity will be influenced by land reform.
labour
▪ Advance in labour productivity was beginning to depend upon the quality and involvement of the worker.
▪ In narrower economic terms agriculture provides a striking example of how misleading bald figures for labour productivity can be.
▪ Measures of productivity growth are even cruder and can be made only in terms of labour productivity.
▪ Productivity growth Faster scrapping of old plant as a result of insufficient labour should increase the rate of growth of labour productivity.
▪ Unsurprising, then, that their labour productivity was far higher than their less-successful rivals.
▪ The labour code of 1922 made labour productivity worse by introducing an eight-hour day for engine crews.
▪ All the factors discussed above which reduced the growth rate of labour productivity contributed to the fall.
▪ This probably contributed to the slower growth in labour productivity at that time.
level
▪ Declining productivity levels and environmental degradation have caused a widespread exodus of people to centres of economic activity.
▪ Prewar production levels were not regained until the early 1950s, and not until even later were 1930s agricultural productivity levels exceeded.
▪ First, as economies grow, rising productivity levels made possible by technological advances allow workers to pass into the next sector.
▪ Addressing the country's woeful productivity levels has been at the heart of all the Chancellor's four Budgets.
worker
▪ Imagine what will happen to worker productivity and health-care costs if they all buy into the prevailing images of decline and decay.
▪ And the Labor Department reported that worker productivity continued to rise in the third quarter.
▪ Each experiment involved increasing or decreasing lighting and measuring worker productivity.
▪ Obviously much more than changes in lighting was affecting worker productivity.
▪ The computer appears to make work more efficient; technological change seems to be enhancing worker productivity at an unprecedented pace.
▪ This time, extraneous variables that might affect worker productivity would be tightly controlled.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ In work organisations it is universally believed that cooperation is a Good Thing, and achieve greater productivity than lack of cooperation.
▪ Both union and nonunion employees would receive bonuses for achieving productivity cost, and safety goals.
▪ An important factor in achieving high productivity in grassland is the availability of nitrogen to the plant roots.
▪ The important thing is that this contract is incentive based, and the incentive for us is to achieve the productivity.
▪ The team was then challenged to achieve the productivity and drainage objectives of the two remaining horizontal wells with a single well.
affect
▪ The astounding part was what they learned about the social dynamics of the workplace and how it affected employee morale and productivity.
▪ Obviously much more than changes in lighting was affecting worker productivity.
▪ This time, extraneous variables that might affect worker productivity would be tightly controlled.
▪ They may be so badly affected that their productivity drops.
boost
▪ Workers have boosted productivity by 30 percent.
▪ Intelligent computer assistants will boost productivity and even act creatively.
▪ Coal bosses want 24-hour working to be allowed seven days a week to boost productivity.
enhance
▪ They say the refugees will enhance productivity and economic growth.
▪ As processes improve, it cuts out much of the wasted effort and rework, thus enhancing productivity.
▪ This dulled incentive to enhance productivity is a cost of integration that must be borne in mind when amalgamation is contemplated.
▪ The computer appears to make work more efficient; technological change seems to be enhancing worker productivity at an unprecedented pace.
improve
▪ Hydraulic Fracturing Hydraulic fracturing is a method frequently used in Carboniferous wells to improve productivity.
▪ All of them found ways to reduce the toxicity and to regain their health and improve their productivity.
▪ He thinks the changes would improve the productivity of the office and enable it to handle more work each week.
▪ Company officials also report indirect benefits including improved productivity and reduced absenteeism.
▪ Making change in processes and systems to improve efficiency and productivity.
▪ The team decides how to organize its work and how to improve productivity.
▪ Companies may intensify production, improve productivity or reduce output - all of which tend to reduce employment.
▪ It also seeks to improve productivity by mining 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
link
▪ Bonuses are linked to productivity at Sofmap, and promotion is purely by merit, not seniority.
▪ Employers say wage parity must be linked to productivity and economic growth.
lose
▪ We are all economically weakened by lost productivity.
▪ We, the passengers, are paying for it with lost productivity.
▪ However, shutting the federal government here costs $ 65 million a day in lost productivity, Lachance said.
▪ Dyslexia takes an immense toll in lost productivity, thwarted careers, frustration, depression and other behavioral problems.
▪ These include expenses for training and lost productivity, which equal and / or exceed medical care costs.
▪ In addition, employers pay an equal or even greater price for training and lost productivity.
▪ The costs to the nation in lost work and lowered productivity have been estimated to be at least $ 44 billion annually.
▪ Paul Wellstone, D-Wis., said it could save money by encouraging preventive treatment that avoids lost productivity.
measure
▪ We can measure productivity but with motivation we can only make certain assumptions that improved motivation may lead to improved performance.
▪ One answer, of course, is that it is easy to measure hours and difficult to measure productivity.
▪ It is also, as he points out, rather hard to measure the productivity of a minister.
▪ Each experiment involved increasing or decreasing lighting and measuring worker productivity.
raise
▪ In order to compete, firms would therefore have to seek ever-increasing technological innovations to raise productivity, increase output and reduce prices.
▪ They recognize that co-operation between industry and research institutions is beneficial in raising productivity and enhancing competitiveness.
▪ But there was little incentive to raise productivity when any increased surplus would simply be creamed off by State or landlord.
▪ To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.
▪ The only way to defeat inflation in the medium term is to raise productivity substantially.
reduce
▪ His brief was to improve the professionalism of the department's management, reduce costs and raise productivity.
▪ The survey also found that the likeliest effect of downsizing is a slump in morale, which can reduce productivity and profits.
rise
▪ It is hardly surprising that real wages rose less rapidly than productivity and hence that profitability and competitiveness improved.
▪ The profit margin rose on productivity improvements and increased sales of higher-margin on-site industrial gas plants.
▪ As the graph shows, in the postwar period up to 1972, real wages rose in line with productivity.
▪ Some analysts emphasize rising productivity and rising wages in the market economy that have made work outside the home increasingly profitable.
▪ The number of working days lost through industrial stoppages continued to rise and productivity to fall.
▪ Ample labour supplies permitted the operation of new machines without the need for product wages to rise as fast as productivity.
▪ If real product wages rise more slowly than productivity then the profit share rises.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Managers are always looking for ways to increase worker productivity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Climate, and particularly site water balance, largely control the structure and productivity of vegetation.
▪ Everyone's preferences would be reflected in their purchases of goods and their productivity in wages paid.
▪ He said those benefits include higher productivity, lower turnover, less absenteeism and stronger loyalty from the workforce.
▪ However, shutting the federal government here costs $ 65 million a day in lost productivity, Lachance said.
▪ So Britain is poorly equipped to even consider making any comparisons of the productivity or usefulness of research.
▪ The Law of Unintended Consequences comes into play and soon everything is going downhill, performance, quality, and productivity included.
▪ Three factors probably contributed to the decline in productivity growth.
▪ Welfare commissioners, labor secretaries, commerce department staffers-all can shift resources into areas of higher productivity and yield.