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  2. Business performance management - Wikipedia

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    Business performance management (BPM) (also known as corporate performance management (CPM) [2] enterprise performance management (EPM), [3] [4] organizational performance management, or performance management) is a management approach which encompasses a set of processes and analytical tools to ensure that an organization's activities and output are aligned with its goals.

  3. Performativity - Wikipedia

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    Performativity is the concept that language can function as a form of social action and have the effect of change. [1] The concept has multiple applications in diverse fields such as anthropology, social and cultural geography, economics, gender studies (social construction of gender), law, linguistics, performance studies, history, management studies and philosophy.

  4. Benchmarking - Wikipedia

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    The term benchmark, originates from the history of guns and ammunition, in regards to the same aim as for the business term: comparison and improved performance.The introduction of gunpowder arms replaced the bow and arrow from the archer, who now had to learn to handle a gun.

  5. Organizational theory - Wikipedia

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    The contingency theory views organization design as "a constrained optimization problem," meaning that an organization must try to maximize performance by minimizing the effects of varying environmental and internal constraints. [44] Contingency theory claims there is no best way to organize a corporation, to lead a company, or to make decisions.

  6. Organizational culture - Wikipedia

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    A Harvard Business School study reported that culture has a significant effect on an organization's long-term economic performance. The study examined the management practices at 160 organizations over ten years and found that culture can impact performance. Performance-oriented cultures experienced better financial results.

  7. Performance measurement - Wikipedia

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    Performance measurement is the process of collecting, analyzing and/or reporting information regarding the performance of an individual, group, organization, system or component. [dubious – discuss] [1] Definitions of performance measurement tend to be predicated upon an assumption about why the performance is being measured. [2]

  8. Performance science - Wikipedia

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    Performance science is the multidisciplinary study of human performance. It draws together methodologies across numerous scientific disciplines, including those of biomechanics , economics , physiology , psychology , and sociology , to understand the fundamental skills, mechanisms, and outcomes of performance activities and experiences. [ 1 ]

  9. Performance effects - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, the variance in performance is for about one third related to differences between business with the other two-thirds related to other effects (e.g. different industries, different corporations, different year, and random differences). An upside of the variance measure is that the effects sum to 100%.