Impact on productivity resulting in organization competitive advantage

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Implementing on what has been already discussed, work Efficiency and Effectiveness has a huge

impact on productivity resulting in organization competitive advantage. Since as mentioned

before, organizations nowadays strive to succeed in a fierce market and to be able to do so,

strategies must be applied within the organization and its employees most importantly to reach

this goal (Biro, 2013).

Performance appraisal is the practice of assessing employee job performance and providing

feedback to those employees about both positive and negative aspects of their performance.

Performance measurements are very important both for the organization and the individual, for

they are the primary data used in determining salary increases, promotions, and, in the case of

workers who perform unsatisfactorily, dismissal.

The words efficiency and effectiveness are often considered synonyms, along with terms like

competency, productivity, and proficiency. However, in more formal management discussions,

the words efficiency and effectiveness take on very different meanings. In the context of process

reengineering, Lon Roberts (1994: 19) defines efficiency as "to the degree of economy with

which the process consumes resources-especially time and money," while he distinguishes

effectiveness as "how well the process actually accomplishes its intended purpose, here again

from the customer's point of view."

Increasing productivity is one of the most critical goals in business. Unfortunately, it’s an

activity seldom accepted by HR professionals as a legitimate mandate. While most HR

professionals acknowledge that their job entails establishing policy, procedures, and programs

governing people management, few attempt to connect such elements to increasing employee

output (volume, speed, and quality) per each dollar spent on labor costs (or as an easier to

measure alternative, revenue per employee) (Sullivan, 2011).

But the truth is, HR has never been more necessary. The competitive forces that managers face

today and will continue to confront in the future demand organizational excellence. The efforts

to achieve such excellence—through a focus on learning, quality, teamwork, and

reengineering—are driven by the way organizations get things done and how they treat their

people. Those are fundamental HR issues. To state it plainly: achieving organizational excellence

must be the work of HR (Ulrich, 1998).