Workforce Performance
Key Topics
Absenteeism Labour Turnover Productivity Lost Time Rate Piece Rate Bonuses
How do you measure workforce performance? And how does the way a business pays its employees affect their performance at work?
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31 mins
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Measuring Workforce Performance
Appraisal is a means of measuring individual performance, but how do you measure the performance of the workforce as a whole? Typically companies look at factors such as labour turnover,…
Case Study: A Tale of Two Factories
Blakeway has two factories. One is performing much worse than the other. Is this because of a lack of investment and machinery that breaks down? Or is just down to…
Remuneration
Methods of remuneration break down into time-based and performance-based systems. Time-based systems provide clarity for employees and employers. Performance-based systems, such as piece time work, provide a link between pay…
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