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Title: Using performance parameters, metrified performance objectives, and quality management assessments to improve the effectiveness of research organizations

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OSTI ID:76213

This paper begins by raising the issue of whether the theoretical model of customer-suppliers-products-services usefully describes the activities of laboratory life, using a case study from Fermilab. After describing scientific activities as work, not volunteerism, I present a model that has four performance parameters that can be used to evaluate DOE-funded research laboratories: (1) Do they have a well-defined management system? (2) Are they doing good science? (3) Are they managing their resources effectively? (4) Are they responsive to their customers? From these four parameters I describe how to metrify performance objectives, then use them to evaluate research organizations. I describe these performance objectives within the context of views I have published elsewhere, and according to Stephen R. Covey`s metaphor of production/production capability (P/PC) balance in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-83CH10093
OSTI ID:
76213
Report Number(s):
NREL/TP-400-7830; CONF-9509131-1; ON: DE95004087
Resource Relation:
Conference: 22. annual National Energy and Environmental Division education and training symposium, Charlotte, NC (United States), 17-20 Sep 1995; Other Information: PBD: Apr 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English