Cost Effectiveness Ensure that the Workforce Development System maximizes the use of available resources in a cost-effective and efficient manner, and maximizes return on investment. Workplace Provide employers effective support in the development of high performance work organizations that maximize the potential and skills of a diverse workplace. Workforce Development Performance Measurement Initiative Guiding Principles System-focused. Performance measures assess progress toward achieving goals and objectives for the nation's workforce development system. The number of performance measures is limited to focus on the most important indicators of success and to avoid diluting the influence of individual measures.
Performance measures are simple, straight-forward and as easy to understand as possible.
Avoid Unintended Consequences. To the extent possible, performance measures should be designed to avoid unintended consequences. The value of the performance measures should justify the costs of collecting and retaining data. To the extent possible, performance measures should be streamlined to utilize existing data sources, reduce data collection burdens, and avoid asking for information that can be obtained from another source. Performance measures should be reliable so that when the same measure is used in the same circumstances, it will obtain the same result.