Measuring performance: a toolkit of traditional and alternative methods
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Main Author: Jenkins, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey Gower ©2012
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Getting measures right -- The emergence of value as a measure -- The idea of command as the source of accounting doctrine -- Budgets, targets and standards -- The ideology behind standard accounting doctrine -- How budgets and targets are set -- Motivation, coordination and planning -- The hidden costs of flawed planning -- Measures and the process chain -- Counting the cost of disruption to the process -- How to measure the cost of command -- What needs to be done to reform standard accounting doctrine -- How to use measures for coordination, planning and control -- The productivity goal and how to achieve it -- Home or away : the truth about outsourcing -- Measuring changes in productivity -- How to measure response -- How to measure innovation -- How to measure improvement -- How to measure results and motivation -- How to test your information system -- Measurement systems : the options -- League tables and performance review -- Conclusion
David Jenkins book examines many of the more traditional measures of performance and highlights their shortcomings as well as assessing the merits of the alternative approaches that are currently available. The book concludes with a step-by-step guide to reviewing the effectiveness of your organization's existing systems for measuring performance and identifying ways of improving them
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (141 pages)
ISBN:9781409440253
1409440257
9780566088605
0566088606

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