evaluation

1. Decisions: Judgment and choice are the two most common modes of evaluation. Judgment deals with assessment of individuals, alternatives, activities, products, or plans one at a time and against some benchmark, standard, or yardstick. Choice is concerned with their selection from a given group or set.

2. Management: Rigorous analysis of completed or ongoing activities that determine or support management accountability, effectiveness, and efficiency. Evaluation of completed activities is called ex-post evaluation, post-hoc evaluation, or summative evaluation. Evaluation of current or on going activities is called in-term evaluation. See also effectiveness evaluation.

Get paid what you're worth and spend less than you earn. Make sure you know what your job is worth in the marketplace, by conducting an evaluation of your skills, productivity, job tasks, contribution to the company, and the going rate, both inside and outside the company, for what you do. Being underpaid even a thousand dollars a year can have a significant cumulative effect over the course of your working life. However, no matter how much or how little you're paid, you'll never get ahead if you spend more than you earn. Often it's easier to spend less than it is to earn more, and a little cost-cutting effort in a number of areas can result in big savings. It doesn't always have to involve making big sacrifices.

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