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Edward Connelly

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Pub. period:1988-1995
Pub. count:4
Number of co-authors:1

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Publications by Edward Connelly (bibliography)

1995

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Connelly, Edward (1995): Building Performance Measures: A Human Factors Problem. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 39th Annual Meeting 1995. pp. 1165-1169.

“Performance assessments via institutionalized performance measures are a key part of the ongoing, global restructuring of corporate, industrial, government, and military ways of doing business. Corporations, recognizing that the "game" is played for keeps, are reorganizing to survive and prosper in the national and international environment. Often, this restructuring is not just adding new technology, although it typically takes advantage of new technology. Instead, this is a work environment change supporting effective work interactions. Led by the training and human resources personnel, employees learn to share goals, to communicate effectively and to help each other solve problems in order to function as an effective team. Results of these efforts are truly inspiring. Organizations such as Kodak, IBM, Ford, and others have turned things around, producing profitable units providing quality products and services, and having fun while doing it (Anfuso 1994). A key part of this turn-a-round is the common understanding of how performance is evaluated, a result achieved via instutionalized performance measures. A performance measure is a definition of how performance is to be assessed. The definition is always based on an individual's subjective preference of the worth of demonstrated performances or proposed activities. When the individual is an authority whose performance assessments significantly impact the performance of other individuals and the organization, then that individual's assessment concept demands attention. A performance measure, acceptable to that authority by virtue of it rating performances the same way the authority does, can systematize the assessment process by communicating what data are to be collected and how those data are to be processed to determine the performance rating. Extracting information from authorities for building performance measures does not require advances in computer technology or mathematics. Instead, it requires creating an environment in which the authority can interact with a facilitator to consider alternative workplace outcomes and can provide ratings of the desirability of each outcome. To demonstrate this interaction as a human factors problem, this paper describes the environments necessary to extract the definitions of good performance from authorities. These definitions are the basis for building the equivalent performance measures.”

1993

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Connelly, Edward (1993): Process Safety Management System Performance Measures for the Chemical Industry. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 37th Annual Meeting 1993. pp. 896-900.

“The Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers has developed a twelve-element model management system for process safety. Concord has worked with CCPS to develop performance measures for two of the elements, namely "Management of Change" and "Training". A unique feature of the measures is that they continuously assess the performance of the elements, a feature somewhat analogous to the control of a plant. This contrasts with an audit evaluation which captures a snapshot of the management system performance at a particular instant of time. Of special interest here is the method used to build the measures which employed chemical plant process safety experts performing the functions for which they are accepted as experts. For instance, analysis of the management systems used a method well known to chemical engineers for assessing chemical process safety, the Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP) (AIChE/CCPS 1985) process. Further, synthesis of the performance measures employed process safety experts in a role they perform in their professions -- assessment of the level of performance of various demonstrations of process safety management systems. This methodology is believed to be a reliable way of obtaining information from experts. That method is described in this paper.”

1992

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Connelly, Edward and Myers, Kent (1992): Combat Effectiveness Measures: An Update. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 36th Annual Meeting 1992. pp. 1082-1086.

“An approach is presented for evaluating the mission effectiveness of combat units. The formal evaluation scheme is unusual in that it works with complex tradeoffs and deals flexibly with the changing conditions of combat. The scheme is centered on an index measure in which many indicators are related through a nonlinear mathematical model. The model mimics the pattern by which an expert evaluator judges whole performance.”

1988

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Connelly, Edward (1988): Performance Based Design of Training Programs with Moment to Moment Performance Measures. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 32nd Annual Meeting 1988. pp. 1217-1221.

“Task performance can directly impact on unit/system effectiveness and also indirectly by limiting the performance of other tasks. When assessing the impact of candidate systems designs, training programs, changes in doctrine, MOS staffing, etc., the total impact of task performance must be known. A method for calculating the total impact i.e., both direct and indirect effects, is described here in terms of the unit/system/task relationship.”

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