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Effectiveness Efficiency

This document contrasts effectiveness and efficiency. Effectiveness focuses on achieving desired results and outcomes through strategies and priorities. It is oriented toward change, growth, and improving tasks. Efficiency focuses on performing duties correctly according to procedures to avoid failure and maintain the status quo. It is oriented toward stability and reacting to rather than anticipating change.

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Effectiveness Efficiency

This document contrasts effectiveness and efficiency. Effectiveness focuses on achieving desired results and outcomes through strategies and priorities. It is oriented toward change, growth, and improving tasks. Efficiency focuses on performing duties correctly according to procedures to avoid failure and maintain the status quo. It is oriented toward stability and reacting to rather than anticipating change.

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Effectiveness Efficiency

Focuses on the desired result Focuses on doing one's work


in the correct manner

Seeks successes Seeks to avoid failure

End of task most important Means or resource to do a


task most important

Oriented toward strategy and Oriented toward keeping the


setting and keeping priorities present system going

Uses a job description to Performs each of the stated


define the work to be done duties of a job description in
and to set goals based on the correct manner.
priorities

Attempts to find new ways to Concerned with keeping the


perform the task better status quo (things the way
they are)

Anticipates change Reacts to change

Flexible when change Inflexible -- determined to


requires it. carry out plans regardless of
change.
Motivated toward growth Comfortable with keeping
things as they are.

Constantly giving critical Prone to keeping record of


evaluation of a task what is going on.

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