Handbook of Organization Measurement
Labor Productivity
construct.labor_productivity
How it’s measured operationally
Beyond survey measurement, this construct is also tracked as an operational metric from records:
The percentage of available working time employees spend on billable or productive work.
(Billable hours / Total working hours) × 100 · percentageA productivity metric showing the return generated for each unit of currency invested in employee pay.
(Revenue − (Expenses − Employee Pay)) / Employee Pay · ratioFirm revenue divided by headcount (labor productivity proxy).
revenue / FTE headcount · currency§3The math on what we know
Synthesized priors from the live registry: pooled r, studies (k), total N, top study grade, and heterogeneity. Rows flagged for heterogeneity or single-study evidence are directional, not settled — read them as a central tendency.
What drives labor productivity
| Predictor | r | k | N | Grade | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Performance Work Systems | +0.18 | 1 | 10,003 | A | single study |
| Employee Turnover | −0.13 | 1 | 56,761 | A | single study |
| Collective Turnover | −0.03 | 1 | 58,587 | A | single study |