Benchmarking labour market performance and labour market policies: theoretical foundations and applications

Abstract: "Over the last few years, 'benchmarking' advanced to a key word in organisational development and change management. Originally, benchmarking was a tool in business studies summarising the process of comparing your own with a similar organisational unit (mostly the competitor) in order to improve the competitive position. Benchmarking must be distinguished from purely analytical methods of comparison: First, performance indicators must be developed which differ from traditional design. Secondly, an organisational unit must be found which can be classified as the 'best performer' concerning the chosen indicators. The comparison then aims at finding options for the improvement of your own organisational unit in different hierarchical levels with the objective to progress in the position of the 'best performer'. It is understandable to investigate whether or not benchmarking procedures are also applicable in non-profit and public organisational units. In this field, one of the princip

Alternative title
Die Anwendbarkeit von Benchmarking im internationalen Vergleich von Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 62 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion

Bibliographic citation
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung, Abteilung Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Beschäftigung ; Bd. 98-205

Keyword
Europäische Union
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Beschäftigungspolitik
Wirkungsanalyse
Vergleich
Theorie

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin
(when)
1998
Creator
Contributor
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-128821
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • 1998

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