To Enhance Its Innovation and Product-Development Capabilities, Firms Use Two

question 90

Multiple Choice

To enhance its innovation and product-development capabilities, firms use two different kinds of metrics: output and input. Which of these is an input metric?

• A) number of ideas or concepts in the new-product pipeline
• B) number of new products or services launched
• C) return on assets (ROA) for existing products or services
• D) customer satisfaction with new products or services
• E) revenue growth due to new products or services

Recognize gender bias in job evaluations and strategies to mitigate it.

Understand the role of benchmark jobs in calibrating job evaluations with the market.

Appreciate the implications of broad banding on pay grades.

Grasp the significance of factor weightings and methods for deriving them in job evaluations.

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