A manager’s primary responsibility is to oversee the production of goods and services, ideally while creating conditions that are conducive to high levels of productivity.
Hilary is a manager at a parts distribution warehouse, and she is analyzing various pieces of information to identify working conditions and employee characteristics that lead to high levels of productivity. The information she is currently analyzing is replicated here:

Number of Hours Worked
Number of Parts Packaged
Pounds of Packaging Used
Ana 8 1,280 960
Eric 6 534 480
Darnell 5 275 412.5
This information indicates that has the highest level of productivity when it comes to comparing hours worked and number of parts packaged.
If Hilary is analyzing both the information given in the table and the energy and capital necessary to ship parts from the warehouse, she is measuring productivity, a measurement that allows a manager to analyze the .