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Linking Corporate Goals And Shop Floor Performance, Loretta Cochran
Linking Corporate Goals And Shop Floor Performance, Loretta Cochran
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Several different types of programs have been introduced to translate organizational goals into performance measurement and feedback systems that can be transferred to the shop floor level for employees. An overreaching assumption has been made that there must be subsets of objectives in order to motivate shop floor employees. In the field of human resources, performance management systems have been designed as vehicles for goal translation from top management to lower levels. The total quality management literature introduces hoshin planning as another formula for disseminating goals between layers within the organization.
An aggregate perspective on this linkage of performance and …