What are some ways of monitoring employee performance?
There are many ways of monitoring employee performance. How you monitor that depends on how you define what success and high performance in a role or project look like (and of course communicate that to the individual so that they know what they're striving for). Once you've defined your end goal for your employee, you can begin to work back. But how do you track performance? What metrics do you use?As Jeff Haden notes in an article for Inc, traditional metrics such as productivity can present a moving target and can often be misleading. “Measuring is important, but measuring what you need to measure and measuring it the right way is critical,” Haden wrote.Here are five metrics that we use here at Paysavvy to measure employee performance:AttendanceHelpfulnessEfficiencyInitiativeQualityThese are over-arching headings, and each needs to be broken down into specific KPIs. For example, attendance is pretty straightforward, but what does "Quality" mean to you? Is the individual taking initiative on some projects but not others? If so, how do they prioritize their projects?There are a number of different methods to choose from for actually tracking those metrics once you've chosen them. The Houston Chronicle outlined regular appraisals, productivity tests, 360-degree feedback and management by objectives as a few common forms of measurement. You can also use tools like Wirl and 7Geese to simplify employee feedback and help employees reach their goals. What matters when choosing your metrics is that your employees have clear guidelines around what high performance looks like. Once they know what they're working towards, you can tailor your guidance and feedback to the needs of the individual. If you have a team of intrapreneurs and self-starters, autonomy is key to their success. But if you have tight deadlines and a lot of collaborative projects, set more regular checkpoints and use project management tools like Basecamp to make sure everyone is on track.All this being said, don't forget that your employees are human beings. Any time we prescribe numerical value or metrics to team members, we risk losing their creative drive in the mix. Ask your employees what their own KPIs are, both personally and professionally, and help them meet their goals as best you can.Read more about 5 effective metrics for measuring employee performance.
How do CEOs measure the happiness of their employees?
It’s pretty simple: you can measure employee engagement and satisfaction by asking them about how happy they are.You can do it personally, but even for a small team, it’s better to do regular online surveys.Most people will have a hard time criticizing their coworkers, and especially superiors, face to face. Normally, human beings avoid saying unpleasant things to other human beings. Online anonymous surveys help to overcome this barrier.In this day and age, conducting surveys and measuring employee engagement and happiness is no sweat. All you need is a list of questions and basic computer skills that will allow you to set up a simple form on Google Forms.We run a pizza delivery in Oxford, MS. With its 25-people crew, it is as far from being Boeing or Microsoft as you can imagine. Still, we’ve already done three employee surveys over the course of half a year.Complaints and suggestions we got while measuring employee engagement became a source of invaluable insights (made lots of improvements based on people’s feedback).And if you collect enough data, you can compare results and see trends. Is having 7% entirely unsatisfied people good or bad? Who knows. But if a quarter ago there were 20% of them, you’re definitely doing something better than before.You can check out the list of questions we ask in our form and see the examples of how the surveys impacted our workflow in a post on our blog: Measuring employee engagement: what we learned when we asked our team what they think of us
What did Protagoras mean by saying "Man is the measure of all things"?
He meant that men see things subjectively, and so you must judge independently of her and him and me. "It is here that Protagoras’ old dictum may be given a new meaning, the opposite of the one he intended: “Man is the measure of all things.” Man is the measure, epistemologically—not metaphysically. In regard to human knowledge, man has to be the measure, since he has to bring all things into the realm of the humanly knowable. But, far from leading to subjectivism, the methods which he has to employ require the most rigorous mathematical precision, the most rigorous compliance with objective rules and facts—if the end product is to be knowledge." http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/measur...
I'm 17, am I settling for a career too early?
I can see myself working as a surgeon but I'm not sure I would stay motivated throughout the schooling. I am considering a career working with animals but I still want financial security so that I can live well. Should I still consider becoming a surgeon?
How do archeologist measure the age of fossils? what are the methods involved?
Archeaologists do not measure the age of fossils - paleontologists do! Archeologists can use carbon 14 dating with a maximum age of around 50,000 years to date human history, but that is way too young to be of any value to paleontologists. Carbon 14 dating is pretty well useless to palentologists and geologists. There are two ways to measure the age of fossils, relative and absolute. Essentially relative dating means that one index fossil is older or younger than an other, and that gives us our time scale divisions such as Triassic and Cretaceous. Absolute dating gives us the age of a fossil (or a rock) in years using radioactive isotopes with a known constant decay rate such as U, Rb, and Pb.
Why is measurement important in our day to day life?
Measurement provides a standard for every day things and processes. From weight, temperature, length even time is a measurement and it does play a very important role in our lives.The money or currency we use is also a measurement. And think of the rumble that can be caused if it wasnt there. We would have been living in the age old barter system days and all these technological advances wouldn't have been made.Thanks to these measurements present with us is the world is the same as we see today.Coming to the maintainance of standards all the physical standards are built up of materials that wont change their weights up to the millions of decimal places in years to come. And there are 5–7 copies of the same for redundancies. And that is how they have kept them fair for all these years.
In the Theatetus, how does Socrates explain Protagoras' "man is the measure,"?
"Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not".[5] Like many fragments of the Presocratics, this phrase has been passed down to us without any context, and its meaning is open to interpretation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagoras However, "In maintaining this stance he pre-figures the existential relativism of writers like Luigi Pirandello ("It is so if you think so") by some two thousand plus years." "The precise meaning of this statement, like that of any short extract taken out of context, is far from obvious, although the long discussion of it in Plato's Theaetetus gives us some sense of how ancient Greek audiences interpreted it. The test case normally used is temperature. If Ms. X says "it is hot," then the statement (unless she is lying) is true for her. Another person, Ms. Y, may simultaneously claim "it is cold." "Whether a room is objectively cold, then, can never really be known since the experience of being cold is entirely subjective. This same claim was extended to knowledge of the gods, "Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be." http://western-philosophy.suite101.com/a... Was Protagoras right or wrong? He was right as to the nature of subjectivity, such as "hot" and "cold." He was wrong as to the objectivity of such things as "50 degrees F." "Protagoras’ old dictum may be given a new meaning, the opposite of the one he intended: “Man is the measure of all things.” Man is the measure, epistemologically—not metaphysically. In regard to human knowledge, man has to be the measure, since he has to bring all things into the realm of the humanly knowable. But, far from leading to subjectivism, the methods which he has to employ require the most rigorous mathematical precision, the most rigorous compliance with objective rules and facts—if the end product is to be knowledge." http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/measur...