A rising amount of evidence shows organizations that put an

A rising amount of evidence shows organizations that put an emphasis on the softer side of their business, by for example, listening to employees recognizing their work, building trust and behaving ethically have boosted several different types of performance measures. All of the following are examples of those measures except:

Solution

Organizations putting emphasis on softer side see benefits accruing on the business metrics as well in the long run. Profitability and sales tend to increase over the long run for such organizations. This will positively affect Return on investments, and operating earnings. Annual employee evaluation is a function or a task in terms of evaluation of its employees. It consists of appraising the employees in terms of their initiative, effectiveness, productivity, attendence etc. This is also positively affected by focus on things like employee recognition etc.

However, stock price, as a metric will not be affected. Stock prices are affected by tangible things like market dynamics, industry growth, company profitability etc.

So the answer is \"stock price\".