Performance Evaluation
Performance Evaluation

Author: Ingrid J. Guerra-López

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-07-20

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1118504895

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Performance Evaluation is a hands-on text for practitioners, researchers, educators, and students in how to use scientifically-based evaluations that are both rigorous and flexible. Author Ingrid Guerra-López, an internationally-known evaluation expert, introduces the foundations of evaluation and presents the most applicable models for the performance improvement field. Her book offers a wide variety of tools and techniques that have proven successful and is organized to illustrate evaluation in the context of continual performance improvement.

Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems
Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems

Author: Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1439849935

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This book is written for computer engineers and scientists active in the development of software and hardware systems. It supplies the understanding and tools needed to effectively evaluate the performance of individual computer and communication systems. It covers the theoretical foundations of the field as

Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios
Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios

Author: Bernd R. Fischer

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2012-12-31

Total Pages: 725

ISBN-13: 0080926525

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Just how successful is that investment? Measuring portfolio performance requires evaluation (measuring portfolio results against benchmarks) and attribution (determining individual results of the portfolio's parts), In this book, a professor and an asset manager show readers how to use theories, applications, and real data to understand these tools. Unlike others, Fischer and Wermers teach readers how to pick the theories and applications that fit their specific needs. With material inspired by the recent financial crisis, Fischer and Wermers bring new clarity to defining investment success. - Gives readers the theories and the empirical tools to handle their own data - Features practice problems formerly from the CFA Program curriculum.

Quantitative Models for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
Quantitative Models for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

Author: Joe Zhu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 3319066471

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The author is one of the prominent researchers in the field of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a powerful data analysis tool that can be used in performance evaluation and benchmarking. This book is based upon the author’s years of research and teaching experiences. It is difficult to evaluate an organization’s performance when multiple performance metrics are present. The difficulties are further enhanced when the relationships among the performance metrics are complex and involve unknown tradeoffs. This book introduces Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a multiple-measure performance evaluation and benchmarking tool. The focus of performance evaluation and benchmarking is shifted from characterizing performance in terms of single measures to evaluating performance as a multidimensional systems perspective. Conventional and new DEA approaches are presented and discussed using Excel spreadsheets — one of the most effective ways to analyze and evaluate decision alternatives. The user can easily develop and customize new DEA models based upon these spreadsheets. DEA models and approaches are presented to deal with performance evaluation problems in a variety of contexts. For example, a context-dependent DEA measures the relative attractiveness of similar operations/processes/products. Sensitivity analysis techniques can be easily applied, and used to identify critical performance measures. Two-stage network efficiency models can be utilized to study performance of supply chain. DEA benchmarking models extend DEA’s ability in performance evaluation. Various cross efficiency approaches are presented to provide peer evaluation scores. This book also provides an easy-to-use DEA software — DEAFrontier. This DEAFrontier is an Add-In for Microsoft® Excel and provides a custom menu of DEA approaches. This version of DEAFrontier is for use with Excel 97-2013 under Windows and can solve up to 50 DMUs, subject to the capacity of Excel Solver. It is an extremely powerful tool that can assist decision-makers in benchmarking and analyzing complex operational performance issues in manufacturing organizations as well as evaluating processes in banking, retail, franchising, health care, public services and many other industries.

Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals
Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals

Author: James E. Neal

Publisher: Neal Publications

Published: 2009-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781882423125

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A handbook designed to help the appraiser in selecting phrases and words that accurately describe a broad range of critical rating factors.

Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement
Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement

Author: James C. McDavid

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 145228959X

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Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement: An Introduction to Practice, Second Edition offers an accessible, practical introduction to program evaluation and performance measurement for public and non-profit organizations, and has been extensively updated since the first edition. Using examples, it covers topics in a detailed fashion, making it a useful guide for students as well as practitioners who are participating in program evaluations or constructing and implementing performance measurement systems. Authors James C. McDavid, Irene Huse, and Laura R. L. Hawthorn guide readers through conducting quantitative and qualitative program evaluations, needs assessments, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses, as well as constructing, implementing and using performance measurement systems. The importance of professional judgment is highlighted throughout the book as an intrinsic feature of evaluation practice.

How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals
How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals

Author: Dick Grote

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2011-07-05

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1422142701

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Do you supervise people? If so, this book is for you. One of a manager’s toughest—and most important—responsibilities is to evaluate an employee’s performance, providing honest feedback and clarifying what they’ve done well and where they need to improve. In How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals, Dick Grote provides a concise, hands-on guide to succeeding at every step of the performance appraisal process—no matter what performance management system your organization uses. Through step-by-step instructions, examples, do-and-don’t bullet lists, sample dialogues, and suggested scripts, he shows you how to handle every appraisal activity from setting goals and defining job responsibilities to evaluating performance quality and discussing the performance evaluation face-to-face. Based on decades of experience guiding managers through their biggest challenges, Grote helps answer the questions he hears most often: • How do I set goals effectively? How many goals should someone set? • How do I evaluate a person’s behaviors? Which counts more, behaviors or results? • How do I determine the right performance appraisal rating? How do I explain my rating to a skeptical employee? • How do I tell someone she’s not meeting my expectations? How do I deliver bad news? Grote also explains how to tackle other thorny performance management tasks, including determining compensation and terminating poor performers. In accessible and useful language, How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals will help you handle performance appraisals confidently and successfully, no matter the size or culture of your organization. It’s the one book you need to excel at this daunting yet critical task.

The One Thing You Need to Know
The One Thing You Need to Know

Author: Marcus Buckingham

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1847396232

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Drawing on a wide body of research, including extensive in-depth interviews, THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW reveals the central insights that lie at the core of: Great Managing, Great Leadership and Great Careers. Buckingham uses a wealth of relevant examples to reveal that at the heart of each insight lies a controlling insight. Lose sight of this 'one thing' and all of your best efforts at managing, leading, or individual achievement will be diminished. For great managing, the controlling insight has less to do with fairness, or team building, or clear expectations (although all are important). Rather, the one thing great managers know is the need to discover and then capitalize on what is unique about each person. For leadership, the controlling insight is the opposite - discover and capitalize on what is universal to all your people, regardless of differences in personality, race, sex, or age. For sustained individual success, the controlling insight is the need to discover what you don't like doing, and know how and when to stop doing it. In every way a groundbreaking work, THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW offers crucial performance and career lessons for business people at every level.

Performance Evaluation by Simulation and Analysis with Applications to Computer Networks
Performance Evaluation by Simulation and Analysis with Applications to Computer Networks

Author: Ken Chen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1848217471

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This book is devoted to the most used methodologies for performance evaluation: simulation using specialized software and mathematical modeling. An important part is dedicated to the simulation, particularly in its theoretical framework and the precautions to be taken in the implementation of the experimental procedure. These principles are illustrated by concrete examples achieved through operational simulation languages ​​(OMNeT ++, OPNET). Presented under the complementary approach, the mathematical method is essential for the simulation. Both methodologies based largely on the theory of probability and statistics in general and particularly Markov processes, a reminder of the basic results is also available.

2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews
2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews

Author: Paul Falcone

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2005-06-10

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0814428703

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This trusted reference puts thousands of ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items right at your fingertips — perfect for review time, creating development plans, and monitoring performance year-round. Whether you're an HR professional or a manager, chances are there's one task you really dislike: giving performance reviews. Even if you know the basic points you want to get across, finding the right words and committing them to paper is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist. This phrasebook puts the right words in your hands with phrases that managers, supervisors, and HR professionals can use to help them properly evaluate performance and make the whole process much smoother. In 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews, renowned career expert Paul Falcone covers the 25 most commonly-rated performance factors including: productivity, time management, teamwork, decision making, and more! Falcone also shares job-specific parameters that apply in sales, customer service, finance, and many other areas and industries. 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews is useful not just for review time but will also be instrumental in creating job descriptions and development plans as well as monitoring performance, progress, and problems year-round.