It is obvious that our current approach to performance ratings are a poor indicator of organizational results.
Performance ratings show that 47 of the trusts that run hospitals in England improved between 2000 and 2001 but 36 deteriorated.
It said there was no evidence of this and by all other measures - satisfaction surveys and performance ratings - care seemed to be improving.
Further education minister John Hayes pledged to "set FE free" by allowing colleges to move money between budgets, removing Ofsted inspections from colleges with outstanding performance ratings and boosting building projects.
Some, such as Morningstar in America, summarise past performance in star ratings, as if managers were restaurants.
The premiere episode of the second season posted the best ratings performance for any Syfy original series since November 2009.
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This week's TBS press release on extending "Conan" through November 2015 touches only briefly on O'Brien's conventional Nielsen ratings performance among young adults.
Frederic Drevon, the managing director at Moody's, admitted that he was "not satisfied" with the performance of its ratings of products based on the US housing market.
Though in his letter he griped about the limited amount of time he was given to prove himself, his ratings performance of late did little to reassure NBC or its stations.
Later annual regression analyses compare performance with initial ratings.
In fact, Morningstar even had to admit that low fees and expenses are a better indicator of performance than their own star ratings.
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Sadly, they have been herded into the short-term focus on quarter by quarter performance as they compete for ratings on managing other peoples money.
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The gap between Labour's opinion-poll ratings and its performance in the mid-term ballot box may be embarrassing for Tony Blair, but it is not necessarily evidence that the polls are wrong about voting intention in a general election.
Ricardo is building a database linking these subjective ratings to actual physical performance data.
He posts reports on plan performance as well as his own plan ratings.
All have matched or beaten the Nareit index in the past five years and score high in our Best Buy ratings system, which measures performance against risk and expenses.
Since as much as 80% of ad-buying decisions are made ahead of the actual TV season, the majority of purchases hinge on anticipation and past performance rather than actual in-season ratings.
Well, to state the bleedin' obvious, in the aftermath of the ratings agencies' catastrophically poor performance in the run-up to the great crash of 2007-8, their pronouncements don't have the quite the authority they once did.
The CCL study also showed that executives with BMIs of 25 and under (indicating a person of normal weight) got higher ratings for interpersonal skills and task performance than peers who had BMIs over 25.
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Mr. Ashraf also touted the performance of his government, which has seen its ratings drop over power cuts, a poorly performing economy and a failure to combat Islamic insurgents.
The suit says that the notes were marketed as a synthetic CDO that was tied to the performance of major companies and sovereign nations with high credit ratings.
But at some point the advertisers will insist on some precise performance measurements, going far beyond the circulation figures and Nielsen ratings they are getting now on the old media.
Each car was scored for its performance in terms of air pollution, fuel efficiency and carbon footprint ratings.
Our ratings for domestic stock funds look at long-term performance over four bull and bear market cycles stretching back 12 years.
One of the main flaws in the current system involves strength-of-field ratings used to determine how many points players earn for good performance.
Although critics generally accept the long-term validity of ratings, there has been vociferous criticism of the agencies' short-term performance.
Of course, many passengers give certain airlines poor ratings because they believe those airlines perform significantly worse than competitors in on-time performance more delays, more cancellations, etc.
Lisa Goldstein, the head of health care bond ratings at Moody's, argues that better quality control can improve hospitals' financial performance.
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