Designing a performance appraisal system based on balanced scorecard for improving productivity: Case study in Semnan technology and science park


Mohammad Hemati and Majid Mardani


Today, organizations for holding and improving their competing merit use performance measurement for evaluation, control, supervision and improvement of their trading processes. Medium and small companies in technology and science parks are very useful in economic revivification and technology development. Technology and science parks have provided necessary consultations, information, suitable equipments, and services for developing technology unites and prepare them for independent presence in industry. One of the necessary elements for the success and improvement of performance in these companies is to establish and implement balanced scorecard, which can be used to reach desired goals, strategies and to improve performance. In this article, we use a structured method for calculating efficiency of four perspectives of balanced scorecard. Statistical society of this research was Semnan technology and Science Park and seven experts are selected for answering questions of the survey. We also complete questionnaire and determine index and relative importance of all indices. For developing strategic goals of Semnan technology and science park according to four perspectives of balanced score card (finance, growth and learning, internal process), six meetings were hold and finally all crisis macro goals index were identified and they were analyzed for evaluating performance.


DOI: j.msl.2012.05.004

Keywords: Strategy ,Performance appraisal ,Balanced Scorecard ,Productivity ,Technology and Science Parks Semnan University

How to cite this paper:

Hemati, M & Mardani, M. (2012). Designing a performance appraisal system based on balanced scorecard for improving productivity: Case study in Semnan technology and science park.Management Science Letters, 2(5), 1619-1630.


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