{"product_id":"organizational-linkages-national-research-council-9780309049344","title":"Organizational Linkages: Understanding the Productivity Paradox","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy one analysis, a 12 percent annual increase in data processing budgets for U.S. corporations has yielded annual productivity gains of less than 2 percent. Why? This timely book provides some insights by exploring the linkages among individual, group, and organizational productivity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors examine how to translate workers' productivity increases into gains for the entire organization, and discuss why huge investments in automation and other innovations have failed to boost productivity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeading experts explore how processes such as problem solving prompt changes in productivity and how inertia and other characteristics of organizations stall productivity. The book examines problems in productivity measurement and presents solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlso examined in this useful book are linkage issues in the fields of software engineering and computer-aided design and why organizational downsizing has not resulted in commensurate productivity gains.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImportant theoretical and practical implications contribute to this volume's usefulness to business and technology managers, human resources specialists, policymakers, and researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Scienc,Board on Human-Systems Integration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0309049342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780309049344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e National Academies Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.31h x 6.24w x 1.03d","brand":"National Research Council","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48483450355967,"sku":"9780309049344","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d3ccab3d-5822-488f-aecf-20416dcd913c.jpg?v=1778038809","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/organizational-linkages-national-research-council-9780309049344","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}