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How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Muller, Jerry Z., 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Audio
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Organizational effectiveness > Measurement.
Performance > Evaluation.
Performance standards.
Efficacité organisationnelle > Mesure.
Personnel > Évaluation.
Rendement au travail > Normes.
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Table of Contents:
  • The argument in a nutshell
  • Recurring flaws
  • The origins of measuring and paying for performance
  • Why metrics became so popular
  • Principals, agents, and motivation
  • Philosophical critiques
  • Colleges and universities
  • Schools
  • Medicine
  • Policing
  • The military
  • Business and finance
  • Philanthropy and foreign aid
  • Excursus
  • When transparency is the enemy of performance: politics, diplomacy, intelligence, and marriage
  • Unintended but predictable negative consequences
  • When and how to use metrics: a checklist.

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