Key Difference Between Efficiency and Effectiveness [With Example]

Efficiency vs. Effectiveness: What’s the Difference?
There are a lot of confusing words in the English language, and the two words efficiency vs. effectiveness are no strangers to confusion. If you're thinking about whether to be effective vs. efficient, it's important to look at what efficiency and effectiveness mean as well as the result of being efficient versus the result of being effective.

According to the dictionary, efficiency is all about doing specific tasks in an optimized way. You’re more efficient if you find a way to do something two times or five times or ten times in the time it used to take you to do it once.

Now let’s look at what effectiveness is. Checking the dictionary again we find that effectiveness is all about doing the right tasks regardless of the time it takes.

[dosh]

Effectiveness: achievement of goals
Efficiency: achievement of goals optimizing resources

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[alvinho]

efficiency = doing things right (eg. getting the most output from the least amount of input); it relates to the term productivity
effectiveness = doing the right things (eg. doing those activities that will help the company achieve its goals)

[nsthawnpi]

Efficiency: Can the time also be counted as part of resource?

[lovelyalmacen]

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Management efficiency is the ratio of labor results to losses. We need to work not on the results of labor, but on the reduction of losses. Losses depend on opportunities. Opportunity starts with education.

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Time efficiency requires a sense of urgency skill.

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[dimitrz]

2:12 for you to be effective you need to be within the parameters, so in this example you are required to use only 1 box, but the moment you use 2 boxes-you are neither efficient nor effective.

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[alanbacason]

In the above example: 1 day but used 2 boxes = should be efficient (time) but not effective (wasted resources in achieving the goal); 2 days but used 1 box = should be effective (only 1box used in achieving the goal) but not efficient (delayed by 1 day). For me, the conclusion drawn at the above given example looks reversed. On the other hand, Productivity is always equal to Effectiveness+Efficiency (P=E+E).

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[saberounissi]

Efficiency=effectiveness -waste in resources
Effectiveness=efficiency*time
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What about quality of employee take 1-day and 1-box of

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