Should teachers be treated like professional football players, whose salaries, job security, and other perks are determined almost exclusively based on individual performance metrics, regardless of the quality of their management, stadiums, equipment, coaching, practice facility, the quality and ambition of their fellow players, their level of fan support, age, health, competition, weather, whether they primarily play indoors or outdoors, or sundry other factors that might empirically affect their performance?

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The aim is to improve performance and quality of service, reduce costs, and simplify management.

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The former boss of Coca-Cola's Mexican operation, whose 58th birthday fell on election day, talks of infusing government with total quality management and tracking it with performance indicators.

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Quality of management, not business models, is better at explaining the difference in performance between banks.

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But MBf Finance apparently does not fulfill some of the other conditions of the central bank's CAMEL formula -- capital adequacy, asset quality, management efficiency, earnings performance and liquidity position.

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With the committee basing most of its policies on measurable key performance indexes, which look into sales, profits and service quality, Day says management by majority vote and effective delegation at Wowprime makes his life much easier.

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