Adam, a human resource professional, is preparing for Marianne, a U.S. production manager, to take an assignment at a new facility in Vietnam. Adam wants to measure Marianne's success in establishing high productivity, so he uses the excellent productivity numbers Marianne achieved in her current assignment as a basis for setting performance goals for the Vietnamese position. How could this method of measuring performance be improved?
A. by lowering the measure to account for Marianne's limited knowledge of Vietnamese
B. by adjusting the measure to account for the facility being in a different time zone
C. by raising the measure to motivate Marianne to improve on her past accomplishments
D. by using communication technology to send frequent updates of the performance measures
E. by adjusting the measure for local factors that could affect productivity
Answer: E
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