American companies have shed significant numbers of jobs, but are inclined to further maximize the productivity of current staff before adding to their payrolls.
The organization hopes that this increase can be brought about by greater productivity on current agricultural acreage and by greening parts of the world that aren't now arable.
In contrast, there is a good chance that Europe could deliver some pleasant surprises, with faster growth in labour productivity as current structural reforms led as much by companies' response to international competition as by governments bear fruit.
The living wage incentives were a Labour policy under Ed Miliband and in a recent debate on child poverty the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith gave strong hints that the Government would do more in this area as part of a wider bid to boost productivity, the current buzzword in Whitehall.
To meet this demand, the rail industry - including operators, infrastructure managers and governments - will have to invest in technologies, infrastructure and terminals with a view to significantly increasing productivity against current levels.
We examined the impacts of a defoliating pest, Mycosphaerella leaf disease (MLD), on rotation-length Eucalyptus globulus plantation productivity under current and future climates by using the ecoclimatic species niche model CLIMEX to generate severity, frequency and seasonality scenarios for MLD for specific E. globulus sites.
Perhaps the greater loss is in the productivity of current employees who feel that their religious values don't mean much to their employer and fail to put in their best.
Malnutrition will undermine the strength, health, and productivity of current and future working populations.
Personalized medicine and repositioning both aim to improve the productivity of current drug discovery pipelines, which expend enormous time and cost to develop new drugs, only to have them fail in clinical trials because of lack of efficacy or toxicity.
Avoid or minimize addictive or mind-altering substances, those which are illegal, currently expensive, decrease current productivity, decrease future productivity, cause health problems, or decrease judgment undermining reduction of expenses.
