Davis Cup playoff – a “real KPI” test for the Australian tennis squad

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on September 15, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, Individual Performance

Tennis has become in the last decades an increasingly popular and competitive game throughout the world, mostly because of the increased media coverage and large money prizes that are nowadays in stake. In a recent article published in The Sydney Morning Herald announcing the upcoming Davis Cup playoffs, it is acknowledged that there has been an explosion of nations with talented players and that the tennis competitions have become much tougher than it was 20 years ago.

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Employee productivity measurement

Written by Denisa Călin on August 23, 2010. Posted in Articles, Individual Performance

A recent www.smartKPIs.com blog post, ‘Employee engagement and organisational performance’, outlined the approaches used by researchers to assess employee engagement and performance. The post concluded that as organisations show the relationship between engagement scores and bottom-line outcomes, everyone pays attention to the engagement index. Establishing this critical link between people and performance helps HR professionals prove that people-related interventions are a worthwhile investment (smartKPIs.com, 2010).

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Professional Services Performance Management – performance criteria and measures

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on August 16, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, Individual Performance

Professional Services have some particularities that make them different from commercial activities in many respects, such as:

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Individual performance management and the use of metrics in the world of scientific research

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on August 13, 2010. Posted in Articles, Individual Performance

In a recent blog post, ‘Metrics in science – Performance Measurement and the world of scientific research’, we have outlined the most important performance measures for the scientific field as presented by the researcher Richard van Noorden (2010) in the weekly international scientific journal ‘Nature’.

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Employee engagement and organisational performance

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on August 6, 2010. Posted in Articles, Individual Performance

Engagement is all about getting employees to ‘give it their all’. Various research studies show a strong connection between an employee’s level of engagement and the level and quality of work performance.

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