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 ...

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 ...

Set effective employee performance goals using MBO and continuous feedback. Top HR software includes BambooHR, Paychex Flex, ...

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.

As a small business owner, you depend on your employees to reach optimum performance levels, especially when many employees are cross-trained to perform distinctly different job functions. For ...

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.

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.

I was impressed with the analysis and recommendation offered in a recent book, “Trust the Plan: Demand Management For Business Leaders,” by Greg Spira. Greg brings a wealth of experience based on his ...

This article takes you through the types of measurements and tools you need to measure enterprise SSD performance. SSDs have pronounced write-history sensitivity, which means that they have unique ...

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 ...