This video teaches the concepts of Division of Labor and Specialization. Following the video, students can take an interactive quiz to test their knowledge and share there results.

Considers how institutions have been incorporated theoretically into explorations of growth and development. Four sets of institutions are examined in detail: the corporate sector, to study how ownership, strategy, and structure affect growth-related policies; financial institutions, to analyze how they condition savings and investment; labor market institutions, to investigate their impact on the determination of wage and production-related productivity; and the institutions associated with technology, such as universities, research laboratories, and corporate training centers, to consider how skill formulation is accomplished.

This course offers an introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field that asks critical questions about the meanings of sex and gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions and debates in Women's and Gender Studies, both historical and contemporary. Gender studies scholarship critically analyzes themes of gendered performance and power in a range of social spheres, such as education, law, culture, work, medicine and the family. WGS. 101 draws on multiple disciplines--such as literature, history, economics, psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science, anthropology and media studies-- to examine cultural assumptions about sex, gender, and sexuality. This course integrates analysis of current events through student presentations, aiming to increase awareness of contemporary and historical experiences of women, and of the multiple ways that sex and gender interact with race, class, nationality and other social identities.

Lesson Objective: At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to explain the concept of productivity and analyze the role of investments in physical (e.g. technology( and human capital (e.g. education) to increase productivity. Supplies Needed Presentation 1 Productivity Presentation (found in Task 3) Student Handout 1 Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study inProductivity (found in Task 4) Student Handout 2 Productivity Ranking Activity (found in Task 6) Student Handout Answer Key 2 Productivity Ranking Activity (found in Resource Library) Student Handout 3 Investment, Productivity, and Growth Quiz (found in Task 7) Student Handout Answer Key 3 Investment, Productivity, and Growth Quiz (found in Resource Library) Video 1 Productivity Cartoon Meet King Joe (9:26) (found in Task 1)   References: Econedlink: Council for Economic Education. (n.d.). Economic Glossary. Retrieved from http://www.econedlink.org/economic-resources/glossary.php Econedlink Henry Ford Case Study. http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=668&type=educator MBA dictionary. (n.d.). Retrieved November 15, 2014, from MBAResearch and Curriculum Center YouTube Video Productivity Cartoon, Meet King Joe (1948). Published January 28, 2013