If the water direct value-added output coefficient is used as a basis for classification, then we can categories the industrial departments into: high-output departments (output coefficient above 200 yuan/m3), medium-output departments (output coefficient between RMB 100 200/m3) and low-output departments (output coefficient below RMB 100/m3).
This finding implies that if run efficiently the hospitals could have produced 9, 11, 9, 17, 14 and 7% more output (outpatient department visit, impatient days and number of surgery) for the same volume of inputs.
As well as research outputs, each department will be judged on its "research environment" - this includes the number of students, research income, and its plans for the next five years.
The outputs per department are briefly discussed.
Therefore the outputs per department used in this study are reliable and valid measures.
These incorporate new financial planning and control systems that emphasise what outputs a department or agency will be expected to deliver.
But as things are, because funding follows research output, heads of department, especially in the sciences, discourage young researchers from teaching undergraduates, which is thought to be a waste of their valuable time.
An elementary sensitivity analysis can be used to examine the effect of changes in staff productivity on the research output from the department.
In these circumstances the output from the department would increase: grant income from 16.8 million NOK to 18.4 million NOK, papers from 91 to 100, and PhD students supervised from 18 to 20.
The outputs include outpatient department visit, inpatient days, and number of surgery.
