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
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Die Anwendbarkeit von Benchmarking im internationalen Vergleich von Arbeitsmarktpolitik
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 62 S.
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
- Bibliographic citation
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Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung, Abteilung Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Beschäftigung ; Bd. 98-205
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
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1998
- Creator
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-128821
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- 15.08.2025, 7:30 AM CEST
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Associated
- Schütz, Holger
- Speckesser, Stefan
- Schmid, Günther
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Time of origin
- 1998