The phrase "absolute performance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the highest level of achievement or effectiveness in a particular area, often in fields like sports, business, or technology.
Example: "The athlete's absolute performance during the championship set a new record that will be hard to beat."
Alternatives: "peak performance" or "optimal performance".
We define multiple targets (i.e. gates) and reward for both absolute performance and improvement such that, in principle, low performers are also incentivized [ 31].
Note, however, that this weathervane points only to relative, not absolute, performance.
But bounces aren't entirely relative; absolute performance can matter, too, especially if candidates get favorable news coverage from their performance.
The bank said: We believe TUI Travel shares are due a pause for breath after a 24% absolute performance year-to-date.
First, those models assume that rewards depend only on absolute performance, but in the real world, payoffs are often tightly linked to relative performance.
So after suffering a decline in absolute performance during the 1997-98 crisis, Templeton was hurt by a decline in relative performance during the subsequent recovery.
"What matters to the people who decide what programmes are shown on BBC1 and BBC2 is the absolute performance in terms of millions of viewers.
The reports put heavy weight on progress that schools make on measures like graduation rates, state tests and credits earned by students, rather than only measuring absolute performance.
This assessment would concentrate on long-term value creation and absolute performance, taking into account portfolio churn, remuneration incentives, length of investments, shareholder voting rights, organisational talent and tenure, time dedicated to long-term strategy deliberations, and innovative capacity.
It has been fashionable in recent years to use the terms alpha and beta, which in investing refer, respectively, to absolute performance and relative performance, in ordinary conversation (as in, "We always give the beta").
"We had the worst absolute performance of my tenure and, compared to the S. & P., the worst relative performance as well," Mr. Buffett wrote in the company's annual report, released Saturday.
