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Showing 1 to 20 of 287 for “"performance management"”.
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Performance management in Kenya's public service
… by the desire to contribute to literature on performance management from the context of a developing country. The guiding research questions were: How do managers use performance information in decision making? Why do managers use performance information the way they do? The study was based on …
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Performance management implementation and the elements shaping performance management in selected oil and gas companies in Nigeria
… demographics, and the ever-increasing demand on performance has driven organisations to come up with innovative ways to measure and manage employee performance. To manage these challenges, performance management has emerged as an efficient management tool. Along with the associated performance …
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System Support for End-to-End Performance Management
… they are able to capture application-relevant performance metrics, including end-to-end latencies for client requests and the contributions to these latencies from application-level processes and from software/hardware resources like protocol stacks or network devices. Beyond conceiving of …
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Improving network pavement performance management using machine learning
… the development of sound network pavement performance models and optimization approaches to select appropriate maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) strategies for pavement performance management at the network-level. A key challenge to apply the current pavement performance models to …
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Investigating governmental (public sector) performance management in Egypt
This thesis aims to find the best way to manage performance in Egypt as it is the home country of the author in which the governmental (public sector) has a lot to learn, compared to other more developed counterparts, bearing in mind its cultural aspects.The purpose of this research is to set the …
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Airport business excellence : a holistic approach to performance management
… last three decades has increased the demand for performance improvement in all nodes of the air transport pipeline. Nevertheless, airports are still treated more like infrastructures rather than enterprises, with their efficiency almost exclusively measured in operational and financial terms. The …
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Modeling and Runtime Systems for Coordinated Power-Performance Management
Emergent systems in high-performance computing (HPC) expect maximal efficiency to achieve the goal of power budget under 20-40 megawatts for 1 exaflop set by the Department of Energy. To optimize efficiency, emergent systems provide multiple power-performance control techniques to throttle …
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Scalability and performance management of internet applications in the cloud
… application to periods of under-provisioning and performance degradation. Moreover, the performance interference, due to the consolidation in the cloud environment, complicates the performance management of the Internet applications. In this dissertation, we propose two approaches to mitigate the …
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How can coaching improve the effectiveness of Performance Management Conversations?
… within appraisal conversations could enhance performance at work. The motivation for the study was directed at improving performance related conversations between managers and employees. These conversations may be formal appraisals, or interim reviews. From a literature perspective, there is a …
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Employee and Supervisor (Mis)Matching IPT and Performance Management Consequences
Although performance management (PM) is a common, vital system used in most organizations, both supervisors and employees have been routinely disappointed with PM experiences, despite extensive research. Recent studies have identified certain individual differences that impact PM effectiveness. …
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Selecting an appropriate organisational performance management system for South African municipalities
Thesis (Masters in Business Administration)-Business Studies Unit, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2006.
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Enterprise Performance Management in High-Tech Engineering: Developing a Holistic Model
… is to develop a holistic model of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) for high-tech engineering (HTE) companies. To deal with the complexity of such an EPM system, which involves human factors as well as technology, the thesis uses Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). This is an approach to …
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Developing a Framework for Performance Management at a Saudi Food Company
Performance management involves formulating a common vision of the organisation’s aims and purposes, supporting employees in understanding how they contribute to the vision and purposes, and helping employees align their performance accordingly. This sequential mixed methods single case study was …
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How does neoliberal performance management affect teachers’ perceived motivations to ‘improve’?
… context of the education system in England, performance management represents a motivational approach because of its linkage of outcomes with reward or punishment. This study contributes by evaluating the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations which might incentivise (or dis-incentivise) …
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Political contingency of performance management practices: the role of stakeholder groups
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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A model for performance management in real properties using statistical techniques
Within Real Property Portfolio Management. there is a conscious search for new methodologies to improve building management practice, particularly for facilities in use. An approach in this direction is realized by the application of Statistical Quality Control (SQC), a technique used for …
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Integrated performance management systems and motivation in the South African public sector
Performance management processes in the South African public service are often perceived and implemented in isolation from other organisational and management policies, strategies, systems and processes. The central problem addressed in this study concerns the lack of integration of different …
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Improving Employee Engagement through the Development of an Enterprise Performance Management System
… data and how they successfully implement performance management systems. These performance management systems help the organization identify, measure, and report the organization’s performance at an enterprise level using key performance indicators clearly linked to the organization’s …
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Impact of Supervisor's Implicit Person Theory and Commitment of Performance Management Behaviors
Performance management is not a new area within IO psychology research, however recently there has been growing interest with how to increase its effectiveness. Scholars are calling for more research to examine the antecedents of actual performance management behaviors that managers enact on a …
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Contributions from practice to the design of an ethical performance management system
… no International Journal of Cross Cultural Management e aguarda decisão. Finalmente a quinta pergunta (capítulo 5) corresponde ao artigo Ethics Beyond Leadership — Can ethics Survive Bad Leadership? Que foi aceite e aguarda publicação no Journal of Global Responsibility. De seguida …
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