Country-Specific Profiles of Performance Management in China, Germany, and the United States-An Empirical Test

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Festing ◽  
Lena Knappert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
The United States ◽  
Country Specific

scholarly journals Do Performance Goals and Development, Feedback and Recognition, and a Climate of Trust Improve Employee Engagement in Small Businesses in the United States?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Tywanda D. Tate ◽  
Franklin M. Lartey ◽  
Phillip M. Randall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Performance Goals ◽  
Overall Performance

Small businesses are the predominant contributors to the U.S. economy, yet they face many challenges to remain competitive and sustainable. There are several reasons a small business could fail, including a lack of human resources, limited financial resources, competition, technological advancements, disaster, and globalization. Improving employee performance by getting them engaged and productive in their work is an issue that cannot be overlooked for small businesses to function and remain competitive. There is limited empirical evidence that explains the dimensions of performance management and employee engagement in small businesses. However, how small businesses sustain their long-term performance remains uncertain. This study sought to bring together two previously distinct constructs: overall employee engagement and overall performance management, characterized by performance goals and development, a climate of trust, and feedback and recognition. The research was correlational in nature. A survey was conducted to generate and analyze data gathered from 121 employees of small businesses located in the United States. A series of Pearson correlation analyses confirmed the existence of statistically significant positive relationships between employee engagement and each variable of performance management, namely performance goals and development, feedback and recognition, and climate of trust. Notwithstanding these positive correlations, a multiple regression model with the three performance management variables as independent variables and employee engagement as the dependent variable suggested that there was a statistically significant regression model F(3, 117) = 32.34, p < .001, R2 = .453, explaining 45.3% of the variability in employee engagement. Nonetheless, this model confirmed that the variables performance goals and development and climate of trust were not statistically significant in the model (p > .05). In other words, only the feedback and recognition variable was statistically significant in the regression model, suggesting that it explained most of the variability in engagement, including that already explained by the other two variables. Overall, the outcome of this study suggests that small businesses implementing performance management processes have more engaged employees. The conclusions drawn from these findings suggest that overall performance management and overall employee engagement contribute to small business productivity and organizational success.

Analyzing Characteristics of the Unreliable Segments of the National Highway System across South Eastern States of the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 2674 (7) ◽  
pp. 456-467
Author(s):  
Chowdhury Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Reference Category ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
National Highway ◽  
Highway System

The latest transportation law in the United States continues to put emphasis on a performance management approach similar to the previous one. Since the transportation performance management rules were made in 2017, limited work has been done to understand the travel time reliability on the national highway system (NHS) and the factors influencing it. This study contributes to the literature by analyzing the characteristics of the unreliable segments of the NHS in 13 south eastern states. It was observed that there was a higher percentage of unreliable segments in the non-Interstate NHS (about 34%) than in the Interstate system (about 13% of segments were unreliable). Analyses of the unreliability of the Interstate and non-Interstate NHS were conducted separately to understand each of them better. To capture the influence of the attributes on the reliability of the NHS segments, multivariate binary logistic models were developed. The results from the models suggest that the reference traffic message channels (TMCs), which were characterized by being in urban areas with shorter length (≤0.25 mi) and ≤10% trucks in the traffic stream, generally have a higher chance of being unreliable than those that are not in the reference category. Interstate TMCs on bridges, tunnels, or causeways, and those with directional traffic volume greater than 30,000, have higher chances of being unreliable than the reference category. The chances of internal TMCs (between decision points) in the non-Interstate NHS being unreliable were about 14% higher than the mean chance of the reference TMCs.

Measuring Tornado Warning Reception, Comprehension, and Response in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph T. Ripberger ◽  
Makenzie J. Krocak ◽  
Wesley W. Wehde ◽  
Jinan N. Allan ◽  
Carol Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Source Code ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychometric Tests ◽  
National Weather Service ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Tornado Warnings ◽  
Tornado Warning ◽  
Information Domain

Abstract Social criteria are important to achieving the mission of the National Weather Service. Accordingly, researchers and administrators at the NWS increasingly recognize a need to supplement verification statistics with complementary data about society in performance management and evaluation. This will require significant development of new capacities to both conceptualize relevant criteria and measure them using consistent, transparent, replicable, and reliable measures that permit generalizable inference to populations of interest. In this study, we contribute to this development by suggesting three criteria that require measurement (forecast and warning reception, comprehension, and response) and demonstrating a methodology that allows us to measure these concepts in a single information domain—tornado warnings. The methodology we employ improves upon previous research in multiple ways. It provides a more generalizable approach to measurement using a temporally consistent set of survey questions that are applicable across the United States; it relies on a more robust set of psychometric tests to analytically demonstrate the reliability of the measures; and it is more transparent and replicable than previous research because the data and methods (source code) are publicly available. In addition to describing and assessing the reliability of the measures, we explore the sensitivity of the measures to geographic and demographic variation to identify significant differences that require attention in measurement. We close by discussing the implications of this study and the next steps toward development and use of social criteria in performance management and evaluation.

scholarly journals Country-specific HPV-related genital disease among men residing in Brazil, Mexico and The United States: The HIM study

2016 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Staci L. Sudenga ◽  
B. Nelson Torres ◽  
William J. Fulp ◽  
Roberto Silva ◽  
Luisa L. Villa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Genital Disease ◽  
Country Specific
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