Essays on Performance Management

“Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.” ~ Carlos Slim Introduction Management is overarching, wide ranging term that can apply to anything from team building exercises to review meetings. However, there is one aspect of management and…

Synopsis: Optimizing Team Performance at Google Google has quickly become known as one of the best places in the world to work at. Its organization does not follow along with industry standards. When I first read the case study, I was in ahh on how…

A performance measure should be a way to motivate company employees and manager to work towards which will benefit the entire firm and just not their division. Therefore, the performance measure should be one which evaluates each manager based on their own decisions and not…

No matter how hard one tries to be perfect, perfection is nothing we could ever reach”. In spite of its contributions, this research is also subject to some potential limitations in terms of internal and external validity. These limitations could be considered in subsequent studies…

Introduction The concept of performance management has come a very long way from just measuring the past performance of the employees to a more novel and practical approach of improving the potential output and future performance of employees and groups by integrating the management mechanisms…

Social facilitation can be characterized as ‘an enhancement in execution’ caused by the significant existence of others. It concerns the degree to which one self’s conduct is affected by the people around them, be it competition or spectatorship. Norman Triplett discovered this effect in 1898,…