However, the lack of productivity at work (it
decreased 1.1 percent compared to the previous year), mainly due to
underemployment and the excess of staff in the majority of
workplaces, is terrible.
The words of President Raul Castro during the last ordinary session
of the National Assembly (Parliament) didn’t come by pure chance:
“Precisely, the issue of employment will be one of our priorities
for next year (2010) given the current low levels of productivity”.
Even though this problem must be reverted urgently in almost all
centers of production and services in Cuba, there are sectors that,
for their importance to the national economy, must pay close
attention to this issue.
For example, in the construction sector, its workers are now
fulfilling expectations generated by an increase of salaries and
performance-related bonuses that didn’t bear fruit at first mainly
because of disorganization and some executives’ not demanding enough
from their workers.
In this sector – and also in all of them - it is important to talk
to workers and to take into account their opinions regarding the
elimination of undisciplined conducts and other problems leading to
inefficiency.
The purpose will be accomplished when the manpower’s output
justifies the rational spending of material and human resources,
with the quality required, in every workplace. That is work
productivity.
Lenin noted that any new socio-economic system prevails over its
predecessor once a higher productivity is achieved. That’s why it is
necessary to offer better services and produce more with fewer
resources.
For instance, if implemented appropriately, the
multiple employment experience could yield positive results in vital
areas that contribute to the development of society. The teaching
sector is a good example.
The development of biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry,
where there has been an increase of exports and high efficiency,
with discipline and organization of resources, illustrates how much
it is possible to do under the principles of social property and
correct planning.
Undoubtedly, work productivity is vital for the
construction of socialism in Cuba.
