Difference between Inefficient and Counterproductive

INEFFICIENT vs COUNTERPRODUCTIVE: ADJECTIVE

Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired, or achieiving the effect by unnnecessary and excessive expenditure of resources; inefficacious.
Wasteful of time, energy, or materials.
Not producing the intended result; ineffective.
Not efficient, as.
Lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate
Not producing desired results; wasteful

Inadequate
Wasteful
Not producing desired results
Not efficient; not producing or not capable of producing the desired effect; incapable; incompetent; inadequate: as, inefficient measures; an inefficient police.

Ineffectual, Useless, Unwieldy, Uneconomic, Unworkable, Counterproductive, Efficient, Inadequate, Unproductive, Cumbersome, Inefficiency, Incompetent, Uneconomical, Ineffective, Wasteful

Inappropriate, Injurious, Ineffectual, Perverse, Disruptive, Undesirable, Inefficient, Unproductive, Useless, Futile, Pointless, Ineffective, Detrimental, Unhelpful, Harmful

Ineffectual, Useless, Unwieldy, Uneconomic, Unworkable, Counterproductive, Efficient, Inadequate, Unproductive, Cumbersome, Inefficiency, Incompetent, Uneconomical, Ineffective, Wasteful

Inappropriate, Injurious, Ineffectual, Perverse, Disruptive, Undesirable, Inefficient, Unproductive, Useless, Futile, Pointless, Ineffective, Detrimental, Unhelpful, Harmful

This will be very inefficient for the company.
Courts remained inefficient and routinely subject to corruption.
For example, most inefficient subject is Computer architecture.
Such externalities usually involve inefficient use of resources.
Admiral was surrounded by woefully inefficient legacy carriers.
Generic screening is inefficient in identifying quality problems.
Respondents concur that processes were inefficient and ineffective.
Economic practices inefficient in the global market disappear.
Due to inefficient logisticssolutions production process is extended.
Inefficient tax systems: ETR can reduce the economic costs of the tax system, which is especially desirable for countries with relatively inefficient tax systems.

Frustrated with behavior that seems to be counterproductive?
Very long justifications suggest weakness and become counterproductive.
FTW effective can be counterproductive to the environment.
Relationships between Status Judgments, Identification, and Counterproductive Behavior.
Russia or China seemed unnecessarily provocative and counterproductive.
In some recipes, that extra liquid is counterproductive.
Elimination of this special fund would be counterproductive.
Criminalization is also a counterproductive public health strategy.
This shows that cruel punishment has been counterproductive.
But it is counterproductive for interdisciplinary policy training.