Benchmarking - a management term that involves comparing features of business performance with 'best practice' performance in the same industry

Benchmarking would make firms implement new ideas to become the market leader, because there are limitations to copying i.e. new motivational methods. This will give the firms greater advantages over firms whom don’t have these abilities, this would allow them to negotiate for information for benchmarking. By doing this it may result in other firms benchmarking against you and using it to there advantage decreasing your market share, from what you previously had

Information is limiting, because large firms do not want to give away confidential data, this is why information is exchanged, by doing this it gives away weaknesses and strengths which other firms can exploit, also new innovative ideas this increases competitiveness, which in some case’s firms do not need.

Introducing new practices may frustrate employees, by doing this labor turnover may increase, by loosing employees it will decrease the motivator of employees some of which may not be replaceable, this may limit to what a firm can do within the work place

Implementing new practices costing money and sometimes may not work due to uncooperation of staff, by increasing costs may mean lowering budgets by doing this it may create problems further in the business year, that they may not be ready for, particularly very small businesses. It may also end up in the result of changing the layout of the firm costing a large amount of money will little improvement

Implementing new practices may have faults, but if management’s and personnel accept these changes prior to the change it would increase motivation, because its shows that employees are apart of the business and it means the employees will co-operate. Benchmarking can help but wont guarantee success