income, or GNP” (Pitt and Murphy, 2004) , is produced by improving the effectiveness, efficiency and quality of “manpower” than by using “additional labour and capital” (Patterson, 2002). In other words, national income (GNP), grows faster than the input factors when productivity is improved. “Productivity improvement”, therefore, results in direct increases in the “real economic growth”, “social progress” and “efficiency” (Burton, 2007). Thus, the increase productivity will help the Australian economy…
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