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Effectiveness, efficiency and productivity are the technical performance monitors of corporations. Technical Performance Monitors help mesuring the performence in all aspects. Technical monitors are used in production process, and mesuring the performence of employees. Those factors are more difficult to measure than measuring the financial situation of the firms. Also there can be complexity when trying to understand all the terms. Some terms can mean various or different values. Their meanings can be different. Thus they should be used carefully. In our work, first of all, the meanings of terms are given for ensure that there is no misunderstanding. In the second part, there are numerical analysis and sector search for marble business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In general, productivity which indicates the relationship between inputs and outputs, expresses the most efficiently usage of these inputs. In recent years, increasing interest on productivity, especially seeks the answer of "which factors affects productivity?". Several studies carried out for this purpose. In this respect, the aim of this study is to bring out the affects of foreign direct investment and trade openness on productivity. The relationship between productivity and trade openness has been investigated by cointegration analysis for 26 observations between 1980 and 2005 in Turkey. And then the relationship between productivity and foreign direct investment has been investigated by the same method. Thus, it is determined that, trade openness expresses %38.7 of the labour productivity and FDI expresses %19.3 of the labour productivity at the end of the twenty years period time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]