Tackling the manufacturing sector productivity gap

IRS Employment Review's series on productivity concludes with a look at how manufacturing sector employers are facing up to widespread shortages of executive leadership skills and managerial qualifications.

  • Productivity (5): Making things better: the challenge for manufacturers    By Paul Suff, writing in IRS Employment Review.

  • Productivity (4): Banking on performance in the financial services sector    Many UK finance employers are responding to the productivity challenge by adopting strategies around staff development, leadership and involvement.

  • Productivity (3): High performing councils?    Transforming employment practices is central to local authorities' response to the twin challenges of improving services to the public while delivering at least £6.45 billion in efficiency gains.

  • Productivity (2): From poor productivity to high performance  Paul Suff provides an overview of the concept of high-performance workplaces, and looks in details at NHS productivity initiatives.

  • Productivity (1): Getting the measure of productivity    In the first article in the series, IRS Employment Review managing editor Mark Crail presents the findings of a survey on factors affecting organisational productivity, based on responses from 41 employers.

    Also

    International study links employee engagement and productivity    New international research posits a direct link between the UK's productivity gap and poor levels of employee engagement, with more than three-quarters of UK workers rating themselves either 'disengaged' or only 'moderately engaged' at work. Personnel Today reports.

    Data briefing: International comparisons of productivity   New research from National Statistics shows that UK productivity, measured as GDP per worker, is lower than that of France and the USA, similar to that of Germany and higher than that of Japan.

    Engagement equals productivity   Employee engagement is a trusted motivational tool, yet one firm in four believes staff are not engaged, according to research from Personnel Today and HR consultancy Chiumento. Johann Tasker presents the key findings of the research.

    Government commits to boosting UK skills    Read HR & Compliance Centre's report on the March 2005 launch of the Government's White Paper on skills.