Why Emphasize Productivity?
It is a well-known fact that most CEO’s and CFO’s see their company differently than the HR professionals that work for them. While CEO’s continuously focus on increasing a firm’s capabilities, capacity or innovation, HR departments, almost without exception, continue to focus on pure administration. It is as if the term “productivity” is not in the HR vocabulary. Surely everyone can agree that no individual in their right mind would argue against increasing productivity, after all, increasing individual, departmental or company wide output without increasing costs is a goal everyone should strive for. Yet CEO’s continue to demand it while HR departments continually to fail to deliver. There is no unifying force that seems to be capable of getting the many independent HR units (compensation, staffing, employee relations, performance management, etc.) to work together toward a common productivity goal. Rarely are articles written or case studies developed that discuss how a revolutionar
