... the organisational goals, performance measures and reward system, together with task and situation variables are all congruent or mutually reinforcing. The research is still at an exploratory stage and practical testing is continuing to examine the effectiveness of the chart. Some early case‐study investigations...

... x_i0] Performance measurement Engineering Design Management control Goals The purpose of this paper is to describe the outcome of a research programme on measuring the performance of engineering design activity, and to demonstrate how this pointed to using performance measures...

... to achieve them. Some operations research techniques have appeared in the literature as practical aids in downsizing methodology. The purpose and significance of the research in this paper is to: provide the first demonstration of how a prioritized multi‐objective programming‐oriented methodology (i.e. goal...

...Ahmed K. Rifai Goal programming is an extension of linear programming. Suggests that, although linear programming is used widely in decision‐making processes, it has a major limitation which restricts the users of the technique to narrowing their problems to a single objective function. Goal...

.... A lower bound on the solution to the problem is established and two approaches to the problem are developed. First, it is formulated as a zero‐one goal programming problem and thus commercially available computer codes can be used to solve it. Second, a heuristic approach which assigns customers...

...Ray Venkataraman; Jay Nathan Previous research has not addressed the problem of developing a master production schedule (MPS) for production systems with minimum batch‐size production restrictions. Proposes a weighted integer goal‐programming model for the development of a rolling horizon master...

...Gyu Chan Kim; Marc J. Schniederjans Presents a linear goal programming (LGP) model, which can be used to derive an optimal daily production schedule for JIT production systems. Also provides an explanation of how a detailed post‐optimal LGP analysis can enable a decision maker to examine...

... of a case example from a Midwestern US mental health services programme. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Decision making Goals Mental health Policy USA IJOPM 13,9 Multicriteria Planning Model for Mental Health Services Delivery 62 Pamela Hammers Specht College of Business Administration, University...

... competition and its benefits in attaining stated business goals are defined. Results of empirical investigation using the manufacturing firms in the State of Indiana are discussed and some preliminary conclusions about the use of time‐based competition strategies among manufacturing organizations are drawn...

...Andy Neely; John Wilson Argues that a key, albeit implicit, theme which runs through much of the manufacturing management literature is goal congruence. After exploring the concept of goal congruence, proposes a methodology for its measurement. This methodology has been used in two small...

...William A. Hailey; Edward J. Ryan, Jr; Charles K. Woodruff The extent of congruence between managerial values and organisational goals is addressed from the perspective of assessing whether there is sufficient managerial commitment to allow for effective implementation of competitivefirm strategy...

... to be widely proved in practice. The research reported was carried out to evaluate the experiences of a sample of early adopters of FMS in the United Kingdom,the Netherlands and Belgium, by means of longitudinal case studies. The extent to which the companies managed to achieve their FMS implementation goals...

... and objective attributes, is presented. The index is dynamic and responsive to the changing needs of an organisation and is a goal‐oriented measuring tool. Goals Manufacturing Productivity IJOPM 9,4 A Goal-oriented Productivity Index for Manufacturing Systems 66 Received June 1988 Revised October 1988...