Meaningfully measuring performance is one of the hardest tasks for team managers in Agile environments. It is not only difficult, but most of the time, adopting ephemeral metrics can become ...

A standard reference thermoelectric module (SRTEM) for objectively measuring thermoelectric module performance has been ...

Business leaders have a productivity problem. When it comes to measuring worker performance, organizations have usually relied on traditional productivity metrics to judge the success of an employee.

Just about everywhere you turn these days governments are building performance measurement systems. To be sure, this is a positive development. How else will citizens know what they are getting for ...

Performance management starts before the employee even reports to work on his first day -- it begins during the recruitment and selection process and continues throughout the employment relationship.

With fewer employees in their talent pool than large enterprises, measuring performance is particularly pertinent for small businesses. Job performance measurements are useful in determining ...

For some time, many of us in the prevention field have been discussing model performance measures for fire prevention programs. It’s no secret that the measures apply for other injury-control ...

Faced with stiffening competition, increasingly demanding customers, high labor costs and--in some markets--slowing growth, service businesses around the world are trying to boost their productivity.