MERIT Benchmarking System FAQ's

Future Achievement International has entered into a partnership with Precision Human Development (PHD) to provide our customers the best available professional MERIT Benchmarking Services that significantly enhance the use of the MERIT Profile™. We encourage our customers to study and review the following document for it provides valuable insights and understanding in this very specialized area.

1. Concept Of Performance Benchmarking
2. Ways to Use the Technology
3. What is the Technology?
4. The Process of Benchmarking
5. About the Online Surveys
6. Compliance with Labor Standards in the U.S. and Canada
7. How Effective is This Technology?
8. What Types of Organizations Use This Technology?
9. Sample of Current Industries Served

Concept Of Performance Benchmarking

Decades of research in the behavioral sciences demonstrates that in any population or group of individuals (e.g., the general population or any workforce), performance, abilities or capacities are found to fall along a continuum, otherwise know as a normal distribution or “bell curve.”

This means that a small percentage of employees in a given position will be found to be truly top performers according to your unique requirements. A majority of employees will be better classified as average performers, perhaps meeting requirements but certainly not exceeding them. A smaller percentage, again, will clearly be under performers according to your company’s requirements.

Research also demonstrates that these performance differences amongst employees remain quite consistent over time and different workplace environments. This consistency suggests that successful performance is not accidental or random. In fact, success or failure in a position is caused by certain specific behavioral attributes that are possessed by some employees and possessed to a lesser extent or not at all by others.

MERIT Performance Benchmarking technology allows companies to quickly and easily identify these crucial attributes for any position and at any given period of time. Once identified, this information becomes a customized Position Benchmark that can be applied, in a variety of ways, to ensure users are hiring, promoting or developing the very best candidates who possess the competencies necessary for success in the position and a company’s unique workplace culture.

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