It is a critical issue for the continuity of an organization to efficiently evaluate the performance of its employees. The evaluation process has to guarantee a sufficient level of objectivity and a limited level of subjectivity in order to answer the employees’ expectancies. In this study, a multi-criteria approach to this problem has been proposed since the employees’ performance depends on v...

This article presents two methods for selecting actuators based on the dynamic loading criteria which yield a manipulator with a desired level of dynamic performance. Here, dynamic performance is measured in terms of a robot’s acceleration and force capabilities, which describe its ability to accelerate the end-effector and to apply forces to the environment, given the limitations on its actuat...

As the outsourcing industry matures, there is a growing recognition that a more holistic evaluation of outsourcing performance is required. The parameters and the criteria for evaluation would change in a long-term strategic oriented outsourcing partnership. This paper attempts to examine how performance measures used by customers change during a long-term partnership. It is an exploratory stud...

This study was conducted to provide current information on the relationship between admission criteria and dental school performance, including the association of admission criteria and dental school outcomes such as remediation and attrition. Standard tests of bivariate association and multivariate regression models appropriate for continuous and discrete dependent variables were used to exami...

Although manufacturing determines mostly the current performance of companies, few companies deal systematically with the issues related to strategic capacity management. Besides decisions on outsourcing and acquisition of resources, this involves triggering process innovation, process development and improving performance by adapting organisational structures. Action research in companies reve...

Within the RERAU methodology, each rehabilitation criterion is assigned a grade out of 4 possible ones. This grade results from successive aggregations of performance indicators. Issues related to base data (uncertain or imprecise data) and to fusion (conflicting or reinforcing indicators) lead to envisage a fuzzy method for processing the proposed set of performance indicators. Five issues are...