Dear Seniors,
Many times I have found it difficult to grasp the differences between these concepts. Efficiency is commonly understood as 'Doing job rightly' and Effectiveness as 'Doing the right Job'.
My understanding is - An efficient person need not be an effective performer always. If so my question is "Can an effective person always be an efficient one?"
Can you please clear this doubt for me?
Regards,
Shijit.
From India, Kochi
122Many times I have found it difficult to grasp the differences between these concepts. Efficiency is commonly understood as 'Doing job rightly' and Effectiveness as 'Doing the right Job'.
My understanding is - An efficient person need not be an effective performer always. If so my question is "Can an effective person always be an efficient one?"
Can you please clear this doubt for me?
Regards,
Shijit.
From India, Kochi
Hi,
Efficient- doing a job with out wate of money and efforts.- more accurate.
Effective- producing intented result- May not as accurate as the efficient person.
If a company wants hire courier vendor… and it appoints two vendors.. Now one vendor delivers 80% of letters in 2 days and another delivers in 100% in 10 days then obviously first one is effective that does not mean the second one is not efficient.
If you want in actually H R term … efficient person will be perfectionist and efficient will be productive. Now it depends on job for eg. Pilot or a finance person has to be efficient but a sales person has to be effective.
I hope you will get it. Keep raising such doubts it force us to go through dictionary and make our fundamental strong..
Aparna Sethi
From India, Salai
Efficient- doing a job with out wate of money and efforts.- more accurate.
Effective- producing intented result- May not as accurate as the efficient person.
If a company wants hire courier vendor… and it appoints two vendors.. Now one vendor delivers 80% of letters in 2 days and another delivers in 100% in 10 days then obviously first one is effective that does not mean the second one is not efficient.
If you want in actually H R term … efficient person will be perfectionist and efficient will be productive. Now it depends on job for eg. Pilot or a finance person has to be efficient but a sales person has to be effective.
I hope you will get it. Keep raising such doubts it force us to go through dictionary and make our fundamental strong..
Aparna Sethi
From India, Salai
Dear Shijit,
A good question, indeed! There will be many views regarding this, and may be each of them may be correct. But to me, it seems that an effective person in 98% cases is an efficient one. Because a person will be an effective one, if the output of the work (it will be the right job) will have some value to the others or the persons served. So this, in turn, will prove the saying. But in some cases, it may not be true.
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From India, Calcutta
A good question, indeed! There will be many views regarding this, and may be each of them may be correct. But to me, it seems that an effective person in 98% cases is an efficient one. Because a person will be an effective one, if the output of the work (it will be the right job) will have some value to the others or the persons served. So this, in turn, will prove the saying. But in some cases, it may not be true.
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From India, Calcutta
To be precise..
if I say you to move the object from one place to another...the way you move it would be efficient...say you have got the skill set to do it but the time you take to move it and amount of resource you use to move it, would tell how effective you are in getting the desired results
Please correct me if i am mistaken.
From India, New Delhi
if I say you to move the object from one place to another...the way you move it would be efficient...say you have got the skill set to do it but the time you take to move it and amount of resource you use to move it, would tell how effective you are in getting the desired results
Please correct me if i am mistaken.
From India, New Delhi
Dear Shijit,
Efficiency is we do what we know. But effectiveness is we should do what should be rightly done. It is nothing but we have to get the expected result. Anything may happen with efficiency. Only the effectiveness will bring the expected result. Effectiveness involves a very systematic planning, anlysis, implementation and evaluation.
regards,
L.Justin Sagayaraj
From India, Madurai
Efficiency is we do what we know. But effectiveness is we should do what should be rightly done. It is nothing but we have to get the expected result. Anything may happen with efficiency. Only the effectiveness will bring the expected result. Effectiveness involves a very systematic planning, anlysis, implementation and evaluation.
regards,
L.Justin Sagayaraj
From India, Madurai
Efficiency is about efforts in completing the assignment in stipulated time and resources. Effectiveness is about the consequences of the efforts on the assignment. Rakesh
From India, Hisar
From India, Hisar
Rightly said, such clarifications are indiacations that the person is growing up.
A Science students understatnds efficiency as a ratio of OUTPUT / INPUT ( / sign is of division)
Viz. The ratio of the energy delivered by a machine to the energy supplied for its operation.
or The work done by HR professional / Salary received
Effectiveness is however associated with
The ratio of the effective or useful output to the total input in any system.
However the difference is :-
So the difference is in producing a definite or desired result; efficient, operative; active : actual, not merely potential or theoretical
making a striking impression; impressive
Hope it helps
Thank you
Prof Priyavrat Thareja
Head, Met Engg Deptt
Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh
160012
From India, Haridwar
A Science students understatnds efficiency as a ratio of OUTPUT / INPUT ( / sign is of division)
Viz. The ratio of the energy delivered by a machine to the energy supplied for its operation.
or The work done by HR professional / Salary received
Effectiveness is however associated with
The ratio of the effective or useful output to the total input in any system.
However the difference is :-
- Does it actually makke an effect ?
So the difference is in producing a definite or desired result; efficient, operative; active : actual, not merely potential or theoretical
making a striking impression; impressive
Hope it helps
Thank you
Prof Priyavrat Thareja
Head, Met Engg Deptt
Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh
160012
From India, Haridwar
Friends,
I understand all those are said above. But.....
Can an inefficient person be effective?
For example: How would we clarify a situation where in an uneducated technician comes up with smart technical solutions faster than the formally trained, educated... so called efficient technicians?
In some cases can't effectiveness come out without efficiency?
From India, Kochi
I understand all those are said above. But.....
Can an inefficient person be effective?
For example: How would we clarify a situation where in an uneducated technician comes up with smart technical solutions faster than the formally trained, educated... so called efficient technicians?
In some cases can't effectiveness come out without efficiency?
From India, Kochi
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