Pulling Together For Productivity

This document is a summary of the main findings of the Council's research on productivity, costs, innovation, and trade. It explores why Canadian industry has performed so poorly over the past 20 years. It compares that performance with those of other industrial and newly industrialized nations. It shows that Canada's situation has been slipping relative to that of its trading partners, and that this jeopardizes future living standards. It describes the feedback between the micro world of management and labour and the macro world of inflation and exchange rates.

Pulling Together is a fantastic guide for leaders from all walks of life. In it you will learn about the 10 Rules for High Performance Teamwork. They're simple, yet so important! It's not only about leading a team, but also being a part of one. The 10 rules are presented in a way that every person in your organization can understand. Use this book to clarify expectations and foster accountability, build more focus, unity, trust and credibility with your team, align people and systems, mobilize commitment and generate enthusiasm. Here's your chance to create more balance and harmony within your team.

Discusses the recent decision by U S West, Inc. to reduce its workforce by 14%, especially its high-wage, high-skill workforce. Compares options to promote worker involvement in the development and deployment of technology, strengthen support for labor-management cooperation, and options to expand worker "voice" for increased profitability. Photos, charts and tables.

Productivity has again moved to center stage in two critical academic and policy debates: the slowing of global growth amid spectacular technological advances, and developing countries’ frustratingly slow progress in catching up to the technological frontier. Productivity Revisited brings together the new conceptual advances of 'second-wave' productivity analysis that have revolutionized the study of productivity, calling much previous analysis into question while providing a new set of tools for approaching these debates. The book extends this analysis and, using unique data sets from multiple developing countries, grounds it in the developing-country context. It calls for rebalancing away from an exclusive focus on misallocation toward a greater focus on upgrading firms and facilitating the emergence of productive new establishments. Such an approach requires a supportive environment and various types of human capital--managerial, technical, and actuarial--necessary to cultivate new transformational firms. The book is the second volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers.