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Business Definition for: Group Capacity Assessment

  • the application of work measurement techniques such as activity sampling and standard time data to clerical, administrative, and indirect staff to measure group effort and establish optimum performance levels. Group capacity assessment is used to plan and control payroll costs for groups of clerical and administrative workers.

Additional Resources

Aligning Assessment, Rewards, Behaviours And Outcomes In Group Learning Tasks
Academics often use group learning tasks to enhance educational outcomes in the classroom and laboratory setting. Quite often, however, the group learning task goes awry and the intended benefits of the experience do not occur. Failure to understand how assessment, reward and group behaviour constructively align to the learning outcomes...
Tags: Leadership, Task, Management
White papers 2006-11-21
Preliminary Assessment of Energy Issues Associated With the Klamath Hydroelectric Project
This assessment is focused primarily on general characterizations of installed capacity and energy production for the four small hydroelectric plants owned by PacifiCorp located in California. The analysis presented in this paper is intended to provide some preliminary answers to four questions. This assessment is focused primarily on general characterizations...
Tags: Assessment, California Energy Commission, Characterization
White papers 2003-05-01
How Can Self-Assessment Improve the Quality of Healthcare
This paper examines the issues relating to self-assessment, such as the different types of self-assessment, its uses, and its validity. It also reviews the literature largely from developed countries that informs our knowledge of self-assessment. The paper makes recommendations for future research and concludes that while much remains to be...
Tags: Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Health Care, Vertical Industries
White papers 2002-04-16
Earning Capacity. (Books and References).
Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co, (Tucson, AZ) has published Assessment of Earning Capacity, a softbound volume that explains how vocational experts can help attorneys determine earning capacity. Editorial covers a variety of potential situations, Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co, (Tucson, AZ) has published Assessment...
Tags: Books
Research articles 2002-03-31
Diversified Product Inspections, Inc. and Partners Complete Vulnerability Assessment Group -VAG- Joint Venture
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- Diversified Product Inspections, Inc. (OTCBB:DPRI), a provider of independent product failure analysis, air contamination and fire investigations for the insurance industry announced that DPI and a group of partners have completed the formation of the Vulnerability Assessment Group VAG.
Research articles 2004-11-17
TRANSPORT COUNCIL : AIRPORT CAPACITY: PROPORTIONALITY AND SUBSIDIARITY SHOULD PREVAIL.
All in all, member states do not call into question the action plan intended to reinforce airport capacity in the EU, presented by the European Commission on 24 January. They share this assessment with the European Commission: there is a shortage of All in all,...
Tags: European Commission
Research articles 2007-10-11
FPIC Insurance Group, Inc. Announces Charge for Guaranty Fund Assessment
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- FPIC Insurance Group, Inc. ("FPIC") (NASDAQ:FPIC) was informed today that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has levied an additional two percent assessment on the 2006 Florida direct written premiums of property and casualty insurance companies operating in Florida, including FPIC's insurance subsidiaries, with respect to the...
Tags: insurance
Research articles 2007-10-30
Backed up: builders must adjust their plans as Phoenix fixes sewer lines reaching capacity.(INSIDE STORY)(Brief Article)
A ROUTINE ASSESSMENT OF PHOENIX'S sewer system last year revealed several lines within the city's system running at or above 80 percent capacity, the design limit. It will take $60 million over three years to fix the problem lines, says Ray Quay; Pho A ROUTINE ASSESSMENT...
Tags: Phoenix Technologies
Research articles 2005-06-01
Understanding Process and Design Interactions
Ethylene plants are now considered to be a mature technology. However, energy reduction and capacity revamp studies can show opportunities for significant cost effective energy and capacity improvements. The integrated design of the process and its utility systems results in significant interactions. Often small design or operating changes can result...
Tags: Aspen Technology Inc., Energy
White papers 2002-09-01
Leadership Development Impact Assessment
Center for Creative Leadership?s CCL Leadership Development Impact Assessment is a disciplined process for ensuring that the investment made by their clients in leadership development truly addresses critical business needs. The needs assessment usually occurs over a period of two days. A focus group, representing a cross-section of potential participants...
Tags: Leadership, Management
White papers 2004-11-01
Proposal to Establish ASAC Working Group, Air Cargo Freight Assessment System
This document is a proposal for formation of an ASAC working group that will validate processes and systems that may contribute to a risk assessment of cargo shipped via passenger aircraft. The objective of this formation is to identify elevated risk cargo that should be inspected (either via physical search...
Tags: Tools & Techniques, Management, Strategy, Manufacturing, Security, Aerospace & Defense, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cargo
Presentations 2004-09-30
Breaking the Internal Audit Paradigm : Improving the Effectiveness of the Internal Audit Function
Top executives of several real estate companies explain that whether one should believe on internal audit as an important function in their company or not. The response depends upon three groups. Group 1: This group did not have an internal audit function and believed it did not need one. This...
Tags: Audit, Response, Finance, Financial Accounting
White papers 2001-10-01
Summary of USSD white paper on Dam Safety Risk Assessment
"This White Paper represents the consensus position of a diverse group of US Society on Dams members and other dam safety professionals. It was prepared for the dam engineering profession in the US by a Working Group established by the USSD Committee on Dam Safety CODS in response to...
Tags: Risk Assessment, White Paper, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Spirent Communications Introduces Testing Products to Enable Portable Capacity Assessment
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Tags: Spirent Communications
Research articles 2003-03-31
Personnel Assessment
Personnel assessment is a systematic approach to gathering information about individuals. This information is used to make employment or career-related decisions about applicants and employees. Assessment is conducted for some specific purpose. Career counselors may conduct personnel assessment to provide career guidance to clients. Read to know more about personnel...
Tags: Professional Development, Career, Assessment, Personnel Assessment
White papers 1999-01-01
TRW Space & Electronics Group. (subleases capacity to IDB Communications Group on the Columbia Communications Pacific satellite) (Cutting Edge) (Brief Article)
TRW Space & Electronics Group last week said it had subleased capacity on the Columbia Communications Pacific satellite to IDB Communications Group. IDB plans to use the C-band satellite capacity for transmitting compressed television progra TRW Space & Electronics Group last...
Tags: electronics, satellite, TRW
Research articles 1994-08-29
Windward Consulting Group Awarded United States Department of State Contract to Support Enterprise Network Management Assessment
HERNDON, Va. -- Windward Consulting Group, the premier operational management consulting and systems engineering firm, today announced the Department of State has selected Windward to provide an assessment of the department's Enterprise Network Management system.
Tags: network management, U.S. Department of State
Research articles 2004-10-26
Financial Assessment And Marketing Control
Financial assessment is the process of assessing the finances of the organization towards developing systematic planning models for an organizational endeavor. Contribution analysis is an important aspect of the financial assessment process. It determines the amount of revenues from a given set of inputs. The paper examines financial assessment process...
Tags: Financial Assessment, Contribution Analysis, Financial Accounting, Finance, Financial, Marketing, Sam Houston State University
Presentations 2003-01-01
Pipeline Structural Integrity Assessment
Research and development (R&D) efforts have developed parametrically defined, automated and validated numerical models for the applications including dent residual life assessment, wrinkle and buckle assessment, pipeline sleeve and split tee design, and flaw tolerance and pipeline upheaval buckling and slope movement analysis. This article discusses the various aspects of...
Tags: Assessment, Business Briefings, Research & Development, Business Operations
White papers 2004-07-12
UnitedHealth Group Implements New Consensus Ambulatory Performance Measures; Groundbreaking Measures Established by The Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance
MINNEAPOLIS -- UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) announced today the implementation of new defining standards for physician performance assessment that have been developed by The Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance the Alliance, a collaborative group consisting of physicians, purchasers, government, and other influential parties. The consensus physician performance assessment measures were approved on...
Tags: physician, UnitedHealth Group Inc.
Research articles 2005-05-02
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