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Measuring and managing performance in organizations
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Measuring and managing performance in organizations

Author: Robert D Austin
Publisher: New York : Dorset House Pub., ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert D Austin
ISBN: 0932633366 9780932633361
OCLC Number: 34798037
Description: xxi, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: An introduction to measurement issues --
A closer look at measurement dysfunction --
The intended uses of measurement in organizations --
How economists approach the measurement problem --
Constructing a model of measurement and dysfunction --
Bringing internal motivation into the model --
Three ways of supervising the agent --
Designing incentive systems --
A summary of the model --
Measurement and internal motivation --
Comparing delegatory and measurement-based management --
When neither management method seems recommended --
Purely informational measurement --
How dysfunction arises and persists --
The cynical explanation of dysfunction --
Interviews with software measurement experts --
The measurement disease --
Societal implications and extensions --
A difficult but solvable problem --
Appendix : Interview methods and questions.
Responsibility: Robert D. Austin ; foreword by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister.

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