What is productivity?
Effective laboratory management and planning requires an evaluation of current levels of activity, review of past experience, and projection of future trends. This need can be met in large part by measuring workload, and if the method of measurement is codified into a system, comparative studies among cooperating laboratories can be made. In this article, the authors describe and compare three such systems for measuring workload, and review standards for productivity which various authors have provided in the past.
D004526:Efficiency; D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards*; D010559:Personnel Management; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States