4 Concepts related to productivity

As already indicated, a wide variety of factors contribute to productivity development. It is in fact impossible to state, within even broad bands, the relative impacts of these contributing factors. However, all the following contributing factors are important, each interacting with the others, ensuring that productivity is a holistic concept in which changes in one domain have, inevitably though not always predictably nor positively, repercussions on all others.

Figure 2: contributing factors to productivity