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Which is important- efficiency or effectiveness?
Both are business terms.
Posted 3 years ago in Management   Report this question Report abuse
Nandakumar Kartha
Management Consultant

Answers (5)
Efficiency refer to productivity meaning how fast one can do something.


Effectiveness refer to quality of works meaning how good a person or else
is performing.
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Pannkaj Jain
Blogger

Both are co-related and are very much effective in business.
as far as
efficiency is concerned then it is definitely an approach from bottom to top
while effectiveness is top down approach.if management design any policy
effectively then only it can be executed at the lower level efficiently.
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Udit Sharma
SCM Head Punjab and
Haryana


Efficiency is being exceptionally good at the task that u are
doing.

Effectiveness involves selecting the best task to do ... and then of
course u can execute the task effeciently.

Doing the wrong tasks
efficiently will take you and your career no where: so choosing the right and
most important task is the key. Brian Tracy asks: "Which one task if u do now
and u do it excellently well will make a major difference to the results that
u receive in life?" Find that task, get yourself to do an excellent, efficient
work wrt that task ... and watch your finances grow.
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A Naseem Maryam
Senior Software Manager

Both are equally important. because being efficient without being effective is
of no use and you cannot be effective without being efficient.
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Zaheer Uddin Ahmed
Social Media Marketing
Expert


Although both are having their own pros n cons but Definitely efficiency is
improtant as without efficiency we should not think about effectiveness.
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Hemant Jain
Director Finance

 
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