Efficiency Movement

(noun)

The Efficiency Movement held that the government and the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify the problems and solve them.

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Examples of Efficiency Movement in the following topics:

  • Incentives for Efficiency and Productivity

    • Efficiency is the extent to which effort is used for a task and productivity is the measure of the efficiency of production.
    • Efficiency describes the extent to which time or effort is well used for the intended task or purpose for relaying the capability of a specific application of effort to produce a specific outcome effectively with a minimum amount or quantity of waste, expense or unnecessary effort.
    • The Efficiency Movement was a major movement in the United States, Britain and other industrial nations in the early 20th century that sought to identify and eliminate waste in all areas of the economy and society and to develop and implement best practices.
    • The movement played a central role in the Progressive Era in the US, where it flourished 1890-1932.
    • Summarize the Efficiency Movement and the institutions it, in part, bequeathed

  • The Progressive Era

    • The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses.
    • These two issues in the movement brought about constitutional change.
    • Another theme was building an Efficiency movement in every sector that could identify old ways that needed modernizing, and that could bring to bear scientific, medical, and engineering solutions.
    • A key part of the Efficiency movement was scientific management, or "Taylorism."
    • List the primary causes championed by the Progressive movement, and some of the movement's major outcomes

  • Efficiency Metrics

    • Efficiency ratios for inventory measure how effectively a business uses its inventory resources.
    • Efficiency ratios for inventory are used to measure how effectively a business uses its inventory resources in comparison to its industry or competitors.

  • Efficiency Wage Theory

    • Efficiency wage theory is the idea that firms may permanently hold to a real wage greater than the equilibrium wage.

  • Lab 3: Regression (Fuel Efficiency)

    • "fuel efficiency".
    • Explain how you can tell and what this means in terms of weight and fuel efficiency.
    • For a car that weighs 4000 pounds, predict its fuel efficiency.
    • Can we predict the fuel efficiency of a car that weighs 10000 pounds using the least squares line?
    • 6.2 What does the correlation imply about the relationship between fuel efficiency and weight of a car?

  • Market Exchange and Efficiency

    • Voluntary markets of goods with nonattenuated property rights are consistent with the Utilitarian Ethic and Pareto Efficiency.

  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Group Decision Making

    • Sharing information can increase understanding, clarify issues, and facilitate movement toward a collective decision.

  • Efficiency

    • A major influence on this efficient style of governing was the "Scientific Management" movement.
    • The focus of this movement was to run organizations in an objective, scientific fashion to maximize efficiency, among other things.

  • Examples of Social Movements

  • The Progressive Stake in the War

    • The Progressive Movement influenced U.S. policy in World War I through its ideals of morality, efficiency and democracy.
    • While many historians disagree over the exact dates of the Progressive Era, most see World War I as a globalized expression of the American movement, with Wilson's fight for the League of Nations envisioned in his Fourteen Points as its climax.
    • The Progressive Movement was well suited to this effort, as many of its core values involved efficiency in all areas of society.