The National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute coordinates two national data collection / data sharing consortia: the Kansas Study of Community College Instructional Costs and Productivity and the National Community College Benchmark Project.

Most Australian think tanks are based at universities – for example, the Melbourne Institute – or are government funded – for example, the Productivity Commission or the CSIRO.

* One of the " Top 20 Small Research Universities " based on the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ( 2006 – 07 )

This approach was first documented outside of IBM by H. James Harrington while at Ernst & Young and then in Harrington ’ s 1991 book entitled Business Process Improvement – the Breakthrough Strategy for Total Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness published by McGraw-Hill.

The town is also closely linked to Barbara Castle who was an MP in Blackburn for 34 years ( 1945 – 1979 ) as well as holding the positions of Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Social Services during the Labour governments of the sixties and seventies.

* 1996 – 97 Chairman, Public Accounts Committee ; Member, Committee on Finance ; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Defence ; Member, Expert Committee on Low Productivity Areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operation

In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816 – 1906.

* Olmstead, Alan L., and Paul W. Rhode, “ Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy ,” Journal of Economic History, 68 ( Dec. 2008 ), 1123 – 71.

* Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity ( 1968 – 1970 ; renamed Employment )

Among his many awards and recognitions are: NASA Group Achievement Award, ORS Flight Experiment, 1986, NASA Productivity Improvement Award, New TCS Blanket Inspection Method, 1989, Golden Eagle Award, TCS Inspection, 1989, NASA Productivity Improvement Award, Thermal Interactive Mission Evaluation System ( TIMES-89 ), 1989, Silver Snoopy award, STS-40 Payload Bar Door Seal Anomaly, 1991, NASA Fellowship Program, 1992, NASA Group Achievement Award, Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment, 1995, Space Act Award, Thermal Interactive Mission Evaluation System, 1995, AR & SD Elite Team Award, Letter of Recognition from the Chief of the Automation, Robotics, and Simulation Division, for support given to operational evaluation of the FGB grapple fixture, Space Act Award, Thermal Synthesizer System, TSS, 1996, Letter of Recognition from the NASA Administrator, Daniel S. Goldin, for contributions in the development of the Quantitative Risk Assessment System ( QRAS ) model, 1997, NASA Group Achievement Award, Space Shuttle Risk Model Team, 1998, NASA Group Achievement Award, Space Station Phase 1 Program Team, 1998, NASA Group Achievement Award, Orbiter Upgrades Definition Team, 1998, Various Outstanding Performance Ratings, and Performance Awards, 1985 – 1997, Chairman, Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop ( TFAWS ), International Conference, NASA JSC, 1997, and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal.

Mah has also held several other public service positions, including Chairman of the Board of Directors NTUC Comfort from 1983 – 86 ; Chairman of the National Productivity Board, National Productivity Council and Skills Redevelopment Fund Advisory Council ; Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Singapore Institute of Labour Studies from 1990 – 2002 ; and President of the Football Association of Singapore from 1999-2004.

From 1988 to 1990 he was a Senior Research Economist at the Bureau of Industry Economics of the Federal Department of Industry, Science and Resources ( now the Productivity Commission ).

* Bureau of Labor Statistics, Productivity Statistics ( U. S .)

Sherry also sat on Cabinet ’ s Expenditure Review Committee responsible for the management of Australia ’ s national annual Budget and also had responsibility for the Productivity Commission, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Royal Australian Mint and the Board of Taxation.

The research programs are: Aging, Asset Pricing, Children, Corporate Finance, Development of the American Economy, Economics of Education, Economics of Fluctuation Growth, Energy and the Environment, Health Care, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade and Investment, Labor Studies, Law and Economics, Monetary Economics, Political Economy, Productivity, and Public Economics.

The Technical High School of Campinas ( in Portuguese, Colégio Técnico de Campinas-COTUCA ), maintained by the State University of Campinas, in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, provides free of charge courses at secondary studies level on Nursing, Computer Sciences, Mechanical, Electrical, Foods Technology, Environment, Plastics, Labor Security, Medical Equipments, Telecommunications, Quality and Productivity Management, Mechanical Projects Assisted by Computer and Metallic Materials.

* Verdoorn, J. P. ( 1949 ), “ On the Factors Determining the Growth of Labor Productivity ,” in L. Pasinetti ( ed.

Professor Ojo was named the chairman of the governing council of Michael Imodu National Institute for Labor Studies, a parastatal of the Nigerian federal Ministry of Employment, Labor and Productivity, by President Obasanjo in October 2005. He was part of the Nigerian delegation to the ILO annual conference in June 2006 and led the Nigerian labor delegation to South Africa in February 2006 and was part of the Labor team / legislators delegation to Washington DC in August 2006.

Richard Nixon named him to membership on the National Industrial Pollution Control Council, the National Commission on Productivity, the Labor Management Advisory Committee, and the National Commission for Industrial Peace.

He has received a number of other awards from NACAA, including two National Winner communication awards: Webpage in 1999 ( Agricultural Labor Management ); and Publication in 2006 ( for his book Labor Management in Agriculture: Cultivating Personnel Productivity, 2nd Edition, 2003 ).

* Average Labor Productivity

He completed his doctorate in 1960, with the thesis Trends in Labor Productivity in the Soviet Tractor Industry: a Case Study in Industrial Development.

* Average Labor Productivity ( ALP ) is economic output per labor hour.

Murray E. G. Smith, " Productivity, Valorization and Crisis: Socially Necessary Unproductive Labor in Contemporary Capitalism ", in: Science and Society ; 57 ( 3 ), Fall 1993, pages 262-93.

* Office for National Statistics ( UK ) Productivity handbook

Notably, pursuant to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ( FSP Index ) released by the Academic Analytics organization of Stony Brook, NY, SDSU is the number one small research university in the United States as of the last four ( 4 ) academic years, from 2005-2006 through the 2009-2010 academic years.

Productivity levels were falling throughout the United States and Canada during this period, and were likely worsened in Ontario and other jurisdictions by the recent passage of a Free Trade Accord involving the two countries.

Productivity gains came from the catching up with the United States.

After the 2005 general election the DTI was renamed to the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, but the name reverted to Department of Trade and Industry less than a week later, after widespread derision, including some from the Confederation of British Industry, because the abbreviation for the new department would have been " Penis ".

He served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Accredited by the American Library Association and a founding member of the I-Schools caucus, the Department of Information Studies ranks the 4th most productive and 3rd most highly cited faculty in the latest Budd survey of " Scholarly Productivity of U. S. LIS Faculty " ( as measured per capita of faculty ).

Productivity is considered a key source of economic growth and competitiveness and, as such, is basic statistical information for many international comparisons and country performance assessments.

Data were collected throughout 1997 by the Productivity Commission, comparing international container stevedoring performance for the same ships and trades.

Productivity is something of an amorphous concept and the amount of productivity increase in a given time period is not even well known to the industry, much less to the union or to the public.

Bishwanath Goldar in his paper ‘ Import Substitution, Industrial Concentration and Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing ’ writes: " Earlier studies on productivity for the industrial sector of developing countries have indicated that increases in total factor productivity, ( TFP ) are an important source of industrial growth ," ( Goldar 143 ).

Taking the G7 and other largest economies, Jorgenson and Vu conclude: ‘ the growth of world output between input growth and productivity … input growth greatly predominated … Productivity growth accounted for only one-fifth of the total during 1989-1995, while input growth accounted for almost four-fifths.

In terms of productivity, WSU plant sciences faculty rank No. 2 in the nation, animal sciences faculty rank fourth, and food science faculty rank 6th according to Academic Analytics ' 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index.

* High Productivity Computing Systems: project for developing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for national security and industry in the 2007 to 2010 timeframe

Productivity is created in the real process, productivity gains are distributed in the income distribution process and these two processes constitute the production process.

The OECD publishes an annual Compendium of Productivity Indicators that includes both labor and multi-factor measures of productivity.

Another labour productivity measure output per worker is often seen as a proper measure of labour productivity like here “ Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.

* Productivity Science-source for personal and business productivity information

Allen has written three books, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, which describes his productivity program, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life, a collection of newsletter articles he has written, and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life, a follow-up to

This shows the productivity of an ecosystem with its inhabitants .. Productivity within the ecosystem cannot come to fruition unless the forest is sustainable enough to be harvested.