Non-productive activity

Non-productive activity

Non-productive activity is activities of staff that do not produce profit. For example, a builder looking for lost tools, employees talking to friends on company time. Henry Ford found a solution to this by introducing the assembly line which greatly reduced non-productive activity.


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