productivity
The output of an organization or an individual in a particular sphere of work or performance. Industrial organizations have sometimes reported a rise in productivity after its workforce has experienced a trophy win by its favourite sports team: some surveys (including in France and Canada) have identified lower absenteeism and higher productivity in enterprises where the organization offers a physical activity or a sports programme. In professional sport, individual players can be minutely analysed in relation to their performance, by means of computer analysis schemes such as Prozone, and their performance matched against cost in an evaluation of productivity (number of goals scored, for instance, by a footballer on a particular pay level). There are real problems of comparability here, between the ‘productive’ goal-scorer and the apparently less productive lynchpin of the team's midfield: but the tendency towards productivity analysis and evaluation is an example of the increasing professionalism of team sports business.... ...
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