Factors Influencing Productivity in Textile Industry Productivity: Productivity refers to the physical relation between the quality produced (output) and the quantity of resource used in the course of production (input) Productivity (P) = Output (O) / Input (I) Output implies production while input means land, labour, capital, management etc. Productivity measures the efficiency of the production system. Higher productivity means producing more from a given amount of input or producing a given amount with minimum level of inputs. Productivity in Apparel Industry In other words the more the output from one worker or one machine (or a piece of equipment) per day per shift, the higher is the productivity. Higher productivity is not to be taken in sense of higher workloads or faster machines alone but it is always elimination of waste of all type of labor (time and skill) machine time, capital, and material management etc. Productivity = Output per unit of i