Tyranny of metrics (Record no. 29602)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691191911 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 658.4013 |
| Item number | MUL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Muller, Jerry Z |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Tyranny of metrics |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Princeton University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2019 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Princeton |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxiii, 220 p. |
| Dimensions | 21 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 17.95 |
| Price type code | USD |
| Unit of pricing | 1308.56 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself. The result is a tyranny of metrics that threatens the quality of our lives and most important institutions. In this timely and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage our obsession with metrics is causing--and shows how we can begin to fix the problem.Filled with examples from education, medicine, business and finance, government, the police and military, and philanthropy and foreign aid, this brief and accessible book explains why the seemingly irresistible pressure to quantify performance distorts and distracts, whether by encouraging "gaming the stats" or "teaching to the test." That's because what can and does get measured is not always worth measuring, may not be what we really want to know, and may draw effort away from the things we care about. Along the way, we learn why paying for measured performance doesn't work, why surgical scorecards may increase deaths, and much more. But metrics can be good when used as a complement to-rather than a replacement for-judgment based on personal experience, and Muller also gives examples of when metrics have been beneficial.Complete with a checklist of when and how to use metrics, The Tyranny of Metricsis an essential corrective to a rarely questioned trend that increasingly affects us all. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Organizational effectiveness |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Performance |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Performance standards |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Industrial Management |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Organizational Behavior |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Business economics |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | DAU | DAU | 09/08/2019 | BBC-DA220-22-07-2019 | 658.4013 MUL | 032030 | 10/08/2019 | Books |