Why Productivity Fail

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“Why Productivity efforts fail”

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NAME: Oshane Thompson

TUTOR: Ms. Hoosang

CLASS: HRM Minor BBA4

GROUP: “A”

Summary

The purpose of the article entitled why productivity efforts fails by Goodman and Dean, is to highlight the factors that constitute why change become nonexistent or are in decline shortly after being implemented. In other words why do some projects decline, while others strive.

The period of the 1970’s saw a revolutionary change in how management and labour work together. New forms of work organizations were created in an effort to improve the quality of working life, the quality of union-management relationships and organizational effectiveness. Work groups such as autonomous work groups, matrix business teams, quality circles and labour management problem-solving group impacts on how organizations communicate, make decisions, authority and reward systems.

This then begs the question as to why do some organizations productivity efforts fails? Where they meant to be a temporary change? Institutionalization will help us to understand why some change program become non-existent or in decline while other flourished in the organization. Institutionalization is a behaviour that is performed by two or more individuals, persists overtime, and exists as a part of the daily functioning of the organisation. Five factors contribute to the degree of institutionalization of a change program. They are knowledge of the behaviours, performance, preferences for the behaviours, normative consensus and value. These factors occur in sequential order and the further the sequence has progressed the more institutionalized the change programme.

Conjunctively, the degree of institutionalization was noted to be affected by five processes. The processes include the level of training, the level of commitment,...