The Gallup Daily tracking analysis, Health Insurance Coverage Varies Widely by Age and Income, underlines the wide degree of variability in 2009 in health insurance coverage across U.S. population segments, based on age and income. Health insurance coverage is one of the most important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) used to track the health of the national healthcare system (smartkpis.com, 2010).
The Best-Performing CEOs in the Worldrepresents the first global ranking of the CEOs based on company performance during their tenure. Developed by INSEAD Professors Morten Hansen, Herminia Ibarra and Urs Peyer, the ranking is based on a global data set regarding 2,000 CEOs of 48 nationalities and from companies in 33 countries (INSEAD, 2010). The CEOs were chosen from the S&P Global 1200 and S&P BRIC 40 lists since 1997.
One of the favorite performance measures in the Professional Services industry (legal practice, management consulting, accounting, it consulting) is “# Billable hours”. This volume of time is generally considered “productive work”, while administrative matters are often ignored because they aren’t “revenue generating”.
The compensation of the top executives represents an important aspect of administrative science, as it links together aspects that relate to corporate governance, human capital, organizational culture and performance management. Ideally, the executive remuneration philosophy of the organization should ensure that the remuneration properly reflects the duties and responsibilities of its executives and that remuneration is competitive in attracting, motivating and retaining people of the highest caliber.
The Science, Technology and Competitiveness key figures report 2008/2009, released by the European Commission, presents a thorough analysis and overview of the evolution of R&D investment and performance in Europe. The report is considered an attempt to monitor the progress and efficiency of implementing performance measures by the European research system.