1.In the original literature on improving the ______________
of manual workers, it was common to measure productivity by looking primarily at the output of work per unit time.
2. While productivity of the __________
can be improved by understanding and automating the routine steps involved in creating a physical good, the steps involved in the tasks performed by knowledge workers are so non-routine that similar kinds of automation cannot be easily employed.
3. He challenged the field of management research to improve the productivity of knowledge workers in the same way they improved the productivity of manual laborers.
4. Studies about knowledge workers can teach us at least two things about productivity of software developers: techniques for measuring productivity and a set of drivers that have been shown to affect_____________.
5. For_______________
, this could be realized by measuring the number of lines of code written per day.
of manual workers, it was common to measure productivity by looking primarily at the output of work per unit time.
2. While productivity of the __________
can be improved by understanding and automating the routine steps involved in creating a physical good, the steps involved in the tasks performed by knowledge workers are so non-routine that similar kinds of automation cannot be easily employed.
3. He challenged the field of management research to improve the productivity of knowledge workers in the same way they improved the productivity of manual laborers.
4. Studies about knowledge workers can teach us at least two things about productivity of software developers: techniques for measuring productivity and a set of drivers that have been shown to affect_____________.
5. For_______________
, this could be realized by measuring the number of lines of code written per day.
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