|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
Efficiency, Innovation, Results, and Accountability - These,
advocates claim, are the fruits of performance management. In
recent decades government organizations have eagerly embraced the
performance model - but the rush to reform has not delivered as
promised. Drawing on research from state and federal levels,
Moynihan illustrates how governments have emphasized some aspects
of performance management - such as building measurement systems to
acquire more performance data - but have neglected wider
organizational change that would facilitate the use of such
information.In his analysis of why and how governments in the
United States have made the move to performance systems, Moynihan
identifies agency leadership, culture, and resources as keys to
better implementation, goal-based learning, and improved outcomes.
How do governments use the performance information generated under
performance systems? Moynihan develops a model of interactive
dialogue to highlight how performance data, which promised to
optimize decision making and policy change for the public's
benefit, has often been used selectively to serve the interests of
particular agencies and individuals, undermining attempts at
interagency problem solving and reform. A valuable resource for
public administration scholars and administrators, "The Dynamics of
Performance Management" offers fresh insight into how government
organizations can better achieve their public service goals.
A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the
Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public
administration and public management to reflect on the state of the
field and its future. This unique volume brings together a group of
distinguished authors - both seasoned and new - for a rare critical
examination of the field of public administration yesterday, today,
and tomorrow. The book begins by examining the ideas of previous
Minnowbrook conferences, such as relevance and change, which are
reflective of the 1960s and 1980s. It then moves beyond old
Minnowbrook concepts to focus on public administration challenges
of the future: globalism, twenty-first century collaborative
governance, the role of information technology in governance,
deliberative democracy and public participation, the organization
of the future, and teaching the next generation of leaders. The
book ends by coming full circle to examine the current challenge of
remaining relevant. There is no other book like this - nor is there
ever likely to be another - in print. Simply put, the ideas,
concepts, and spirit of Minnowbrook are one-of-a-kind. This book
captures the soul of public administration past, present, and
future, and is a must-read for anyone serious about the theory and
practice of public administration.
A revolution in the measurement and reporting of government
performance through the use of published metrics, rankings and
reports has swept the globe at all levels of government.
Performance metrics now inform important decisions by politicians,
public managers and citizens. However, this performance movement
has neglected a second revolution in behavioral science that has
revealed cognitive limitations and biases in people's
identification, perception, understanding and use of information.
This Element introduces a new approach - behavioral public
performance - that connects these two revolutions. Drawing
especially on evidence from experiments, this approach examines the
influence of characteristics of numbers, subtle framing of
information, choice of benchmarks or comparisons, human motivation
and information sources. These factors combine with the
characteristics of information users and the political context to
shape perceptions, judgment and decisions. Behavioral public
performance suggests lessons to improve design and use of
performance metrics in public management and democratic
accountability.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R310
Discovery Miles 3 100
Poor Things
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, …
DVD
R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
|