ECO 202 - WEEK 2 MEASURING MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE LECTURER: PHEH PIK TENG WEEK 2 – MEASURING MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? • It is a measurement to determine the economic health of a country. • Economists take measurements of the economy to find out how the economy is doing. • GDP is the value of the aggregate production of goods and services in a country during a given time period. • It is the total market value of all final goods and services produced
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Benefits of performance-related pay • Top Article • All 3 Articles [pic][pic][pic]2 of 3 by Amreen Bi [pic][pic][pic][pic] Created on: August 20‚ 2011 Last Updated: August 23‚ 2011 Employers can use a number of incentives to help boost staff performance. One of the most well-liked by both employers and employees alike is performance-related pay. Performance-related pay involves being paid based upon your performance at work. An incentive such as performance-related pay is usually
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PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL - 360 DEGREE FEEDBACK PERFORMACE APPRAISAL INTRODUCTION People differ in their abilities and their aptitudes. There is always some difference between the quality and quantity of the same work on the same job being done by two different people. Therefore‚ performance management and performance appraisal is necessary to understand each employees abilities‚ competencies and relative merit and worth for the organization. Performance appraisal rates the employees in terms
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Background of the Study In this era‚ most of the students are acquire to make some extra efforts on many fronts; it involves regulating their learning through the use of effective learning techniques. According to Target Informatics Pvt. Ltd. in India (2013)‚ today’s students are burned with loads to study. Study curriculum has become more extensive and complex than ever before. They only carry ever increasing weight of study material on their shoulders but
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Why EVA is better than ROI (ROCE‚ ROIC‚ RONA‚ ROA) and earnings‚ operating profit etc. Equity investors should earn on their capital a return far over risk-free interest rate in order to induce and maintain capital in the company Therefore earnings should always be judged against the capital used to produce these earnings Earnings can be easily increased simultaneously worsening the position of shareholders e.g. if more capital is poured into a company although the return on capital is 5% or less
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Planning and Measuring Performance MGT 521/Management March 18‚ 2013 Planning and Measuring Performance All organizations need appropriate standards to measure organizational performance. Those standards are usually determined based on goals set by the company or industry principles. Some of the goals for Kellogg are to strengthen its brand through advertising and consumer promotion and to increase revenue to an estimated $15 billion annually with Pringles business. Standards to evaluate these
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D1. Now that you have identified a range of government policies that can affect Morgan Sindall ‚ discuss the possible reaction of Morgan Sindall to such government policies. How will all this policies impact Morgan Sindall? There are a lot of changes made in the economic environment because of the current government policies and this will impact on Morgan Sindall. For example The government has cut spending on building new schools by 13%.Morgan Sindall will have less projects ‚ less opportunities
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“What’s Your Major?” At a young age‚ we’re always asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My answer at first was to be a social worker. As time passed and I got older that same question was asked again but this time my answer wasn’t a social worker but a cop. Every time that one question was asked‚ my answer would change maybe it was because of the situation I was in and the help I would get from the police‚ social worker‚ and teachers it made me admire them. Time once again went by and
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practical advice for developing a goal-based approach to measuring your social media marketing return on investment (ROI). Introduction You have started your social media marketing. You are posting to Twitter and Facebook and interacting with your fans and followers. You feel like things are going well‚ but you are unsure how to determine the ROI and impact of your social media efforts. Don’t worry; you are not alone! Social Media ROI We recently surveyed 414 iContact customers to learn more
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Benefits of a Database and Information-Gathering Techniques CIS111 July 27‚ 2013 I am being interviewed by ACME Global Consulting services as a potential new employee to its growing work force of world-class systems analysts and requirements engineering group. Through a tip‚ I found out that they will be asking several questions relating to planning for a new database for one of their national restaurant chains. I found out that one of the executives at the restaurant chain
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