The purpose of this paper is to describe how high‐performing organizations require effective performance‐management systems to promote and develop the necessary values, principles…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe how high‐performing organizations require effective performance‐management systems to promote and develop the necessary values, principles and competencies.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper explains, in the context of performance management, the importance of clear job descriptions, employee‐improvement plans and 360‐degree feedback.
Findings
The paper reveals how to make performance management a source of competitive advantage.
Practical implications
The paper urges that a performance management system be used not only as an evaluation and documentation tool, but also as a strategic tool.
Social implications
The paper explains how performance management can benefit both individuals and employers and, through them, society as a whole.
Originality/value
The paper highlights the importance of holistic analysis of performance at organizational, process and individual levels for individual satisfaction, commitment and goal attainment.
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Satyabrata Dash, Sukanta Dey, Deepak Joshi and Gaurav Trivedi
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the application of river formation dynamics to size the widths of power distribution network for very large-scale integration designs…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the application of river formation dynamics to size the widths of power distribution network for very large-scale integration designs so that the wire area required by power rails is minimized. The area minimization problem is transformed into a single objective optimization problem subject to various design constraints, such as IR drop and electromigration constraints.
Design/methodology/approach
The minimization process is carried out using river formation dynamics heuristic. The random probabilistic search strategy of river formation dynamics heuristic is used to advance through stringent design requirements to minimize the wire area of an over-designed power distribution network.
Findings
A number of experiments are performed on several power distribution benchmarks to demonstrate the effectiveness of river formation dynamics heuristic. It is observed that the river formation dynamics heuristic outperforms other standard optimization techniques in most cases, and a power distribution network having 16 million nodes is successfully designed for optimal wire area using river formation dynamics.
Originality/value
Although many research works are presented in the literature to minimize wire area of power distribution network, these research works convey little idea on optimizing very large-scale power distribution networks (i.e. networks having more than four million nodes) using an automated environment. The originality in this research is the illustration of an automated environment equipped with an efficient optimization technique based on random probabilistic movement of water drops in solving very large-scale power distribution networks without sacrificing accuracy and additional computational cost. Based on the computation of river formation dynamics, the knowledge of minimum area bounded by optimum IR drop value can be of significant advantage in reduction of routable space and in system performance improvement.