Performance measures and worker productivity

Artikel

Measuring workers’ productivity is important for public policy and private-sector decision-making. Due to a lack of reliable methods to determine workers’ productivity, firms often use specific performance measures, such as how different incentives affect employees’ behavior. The public sector also uses these measures to monitor and evaluate personnel, such as teachers. To select the right performance measures, and as a result design better employment contracts and improve productivity, policymakers and managers need to understand the advantages and disadvantages of the available metrics.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2016 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
• Subject: worker productivity ; performance measures ; human resource management

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Sauermann, Jan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.260
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148485
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET