1. Productivity

2. Productivity
The amount of output (goods and services) produced per unit of input (productive resources) used.

3. Human Capital Investment
Investment of time, effort and resources in education and training--to increase one's own knowledge, skills, health, etc., or to develop those assets in others.

4. Physical Capital Investment
Investment in an asset used in production that is made by humans, but is non-human.

5. Productivity goes up whenever more can be produced with the same amount of resources.
Investment in human and physical capital increases productivity.

6. Human Capital Example
If a company produces 5,000 pencils in an hour, and it produced 5,100 in the next hour with the same amount of labor productivity went up.

7. Physical Capital Example
If a company purchased a new machine which allowed them to produce 200 more units per day productivity went up.