title: Multiple productivity measurement approaches for management.
abstract: Managers may desire an approach to combining multiple productivity measurements into one score. This article demonstrates two approaches to aggregating multiple measurements, data envelope analysis (DEA) and the Multicriteria Performance/Productivity Measurement Technique (MCP/PMT). These methods are applied to actual hospital materials management data and do not result in significantly different results. The productivity analysis must then be tempered according to managerial judgement.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah, Graduate School of Business, Salt Lake City.
authors.forename: S T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D004526:Efficiency; D005845:Georgia; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008331:Management Information Systems; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D000078329:Workforce