PRODUCTIVITY, CHANGE AND INNOVATION: HOW
ITS EFFECT ON COMPETITIVENESS
PREPARED BY
AHMAD SAUFE BIN NAWI
2009114839
SUMBITTED TO:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR. AZIZ BIN SULAIMAN
22ND FEBRUARY 2010
PRODUCTIVITY, CHANGE AND INNOVATION: HOW ITS EFFECT ON COMPETITIVENESS
Company nowadays faces many challenges on how to remain competitive in the
stiff market. In the era of globalization, each market player must have their own strategic
business plan in order to cope with more complex issue such as free trade agreement,
human capital development, and volatility of economic scenario and deregulation of
economic scenery. In the context of Malaysia economy, the government stress to the
market player to be more productive, innovative and adopt the changes happen in the
economic to be more competitive. Business in Malaysia is expected to increase their
productivity by emphasis on the quality of the goods and services produced with the
most efficient ways such as using the minimum labor capital. As a result, it will reduce
wastages and increase efficiency of the organization. High productivity growth is vital for
the long term growth of the nation and it can be achieve whereby the organization
produced high productivity and generate high revenue per worker. The increasing trend
of consumer demand for better goods and services and competition become the distinct
forces driving up productivity. The organization somehow must increase their
productivity to meet the incremental of consumer demand for quality products and
services. On the other hand, the introduction of competition leads the organization
towards efficiency in producing goods and services. This situation makes the consumer
less tolerant of substandard goods and services and is willing to fork out quality and
[Link] organization must be sensitive to change in order to be competitive in
the stiff market. In addition, the leadership of the organization must have the ability to
learn and be prepared before any changes occurred. Peoples in the organization
especially the bosses give their subordinates the space needed in order they can learn
and familiar with the change so that at the end of the day the process of adaptation of
the changes will be smooth. The changes made by the management should consider
from bottom to top level of employees in the organization. It signifies that the change
should start from the grass root and then follow by the top management. In another
word, the manager strengthens the change from the root before adopting the change to
the top level of management. On top of changes and adaptation should be consider by
the management is to be innovative to remain competitive in the market. Besides having
high productivity and ability to adapt changes, the market player should emphasize on
some innovative ways in increasing their productivity and same goes to the adaptation
changes in the economy. The manager should have be creative and innovative in
adopting changes for instance innovative effort made by Packet 1 Sdn Bhd (internet
provider) in promoting their product (low and affordable price) and that kind of effort can
be classified as its distinctive competency. In a nut shell, to be competitive in the market
nowadays the top management must be prepared to adopt the changes suit with
organization goals and objective by using innovative ways in increasing the productivity
so that there will be efficiency in making business .