Public Sector Efficiency

Author : Kevin J. Fox
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475735925

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Efficiency in the Public Sector by Kevin J. Fox Pdf

Regardless of where we live, the management of the public sector impacts on our lives. Hence, we all have an interest, one way or another, in the achievement of efficiency and productivity improvements in the activities of the public sector. For a government agency that provides a public service, striving for unreasonable benchmark targets for efficiency may lead to a deterioration of service quality, along with an increase in stress and job dissatisfaction for public sector employees. Slack performance targets may lead to gross inefficiency, poor quality of service, and low self-esteem for employees. In the case of regulation, inappropriate policies can lead to unprecedented disasters. Examples include the decimation of fish stocks through mismanagement of fisheries, and power blackouts through inappropriate restrictions on electricity generators and distributors. Efficient taxation policies minimise the tax bill for citizens. In all of these cases, efficient management is required, although it is often unclear how to assess this efficiency. In this volume, several authors consider various aspects and contexts of performance measurement. Hence, this volume represents a unique collection of advances in efficiency assessment for the public sector by leading researchers in the field. Efficiency in the Public Sector is divided into two sections. The first is titled "Issues in Public Sector Efficiency Evaluation" and comprises of chapters 1-4. The second section is titled "Efficiency Analysis in the Public Sector - Advances in Theory and Practice." This division is somewhat arbitrary, in the sense there are significant overlapping themes in both sections. However, it serves to separate chapters that can be characterised as dealing with broader issues (Section I), from chapters that can be characterised as focusing on specific theoretical problems and empirical cases (Section II).

Author : Ellen Doree Rosen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803945739

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Improving Public Sector Productivity by Ellen Doree Rosen Pdf

This volume shows how public agencies can be made more efficient and humane, providing practical guidance to enhance both service quality and client satisfaction at local, state and national levels. Examples focus on the issues of quality management, improving service delivery, job reorganization and worker empowerment.

Author : António Afonso,João Tovar Jalles,Ana Venâncio
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839109164

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Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency by António Afonso,João Tovar Jalles,Ana Venâncio Pdf

Examining the increasingly relevant topic of public sector efficiency, this dynamic Handbook investigates the context of constrained fiscal space and public funding sources using cross-country datasets in areas including China, India and sub-Saharan Africa and OECD economies.

Author : Rhys Andrews,Tom Entwistle
Publisher : Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 1138206121

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Public Service Efficiency by Rhys Andrews,Tom Entwistle Pdf

The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices ¿ from performance management to public-private partnership ¿ in the belief that these will increase the efficiency of their public services. However, both the debate about public service efficiency and the policies and practices introduced to advance it, have developed without a coherent account of what efficiency means in this context and how it should be realized. The predominance of a rather narrow definition of the term ¿ very often focused on the ratio of inputs to outputs ¿ has tended to polarise opinion either for or against efficiency agenda. Yet public service efficiency, more broadly conceived, is an inescapable fact of the public manager¿s task environment; indeed in the past, the notion of efficiency was central to the emergence of the field of public administration. This book will recover public service efficiency from the relatively narrow terms of recent debates by examining theories and evidence relating to technical, allocative, distributive and dynamic efficiencies. In exploring the relationship between efficiency and democracy, this book will move current debates in public administration forward by reflecting on the trade-offs between the different dimensions of efficiency that public organizations confront.

Author : Richard Boyle
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Government productivity
ISBN : 9781904541493

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Measuring Public Sector Productivity by Richard Boyle Pdf

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451968514

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Public Sector Efficiency and Fiscal Austerity by International Monetary Fund Pdf

This paper uses a simple model to analyze the forces that determine the size of the public sector and the quality of workers employed in that sector. Workers are heterogeneous, and the public sector chooses an employment strategy that maximizes a social welfare function U(s, Y) that depends on the share of the labor force employed in public service s and private sector output Y. The government is fully informed about worker productivity. By examining the welfare properties of the possible outcomes, we are able to illuminate situations in which policies that seek to constrain the public sector may or may not improve economic efficiency.

Author : Rita Mae Kelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349088850

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Promoting Productivity in the Public Sector by Rita Mae Kelly Pdf

Author : Michael Roll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317934547

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The Politics of Public Sector Performance by Michael Roll Pdf

It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak. The public sector, in particular, is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. This book provides an urgently needed corrective to such overgeneralized notions of bad governance in the developing world. It examines the variation in state capacity by looking at a particularly paradoxical and frequently overlooked phenomenon: effective public organizations or ‘pockets of effectiveness’ in developing countries. Why do these pockets exist? How do they emerge and survive in hostile environments? And do they have the potential to trigger more comprehensive reforms and state-building? This book provides surprising answers to these questions, based on detailed case studies of exceptional public organizations and state-owned enterprises in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. The case studies are guided by a common analytical framework that is process-oriented and sensitive to the role of politics. The concluding comparative analysis develops a novel explanation for why some public organizations in the developing world beat the odds and turn into pockets of public sector performance and service delivery while most do not. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, development, organizations, public administration, public policy and management.

Author : Raffaela Giordano,Mr. Sergi Lanau,Pietro Tommasino,Petia Topalova
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513542805

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Does Public Sector Inefficiency Constrain Firm Productivity by Raffaela Giordano,Mr. Sergi Lanau,Pietro Tommasino,Petia Topalova Pdf

This paper studies the effect of public sector efficiency on firm productivity using data from more than 400,000 firms across Italy’s provinces. Exploiting the large heterogeneity in the efficiency of the public sector across Italian provinces and the intrinsic variation in the dependence of industries on the government, we find that public sector inefficiency significantly reduces the labor productivity of private sector firms. The results suggest that raising public sector efficiency could yield large economic benefits: if the efficiency in all provinces reached the frontier, output per employee for the average firm would increase by 9 percent.

Author : Kevin J. Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1475735936

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Efficiency in the Public Sector by Kevin J. Fox Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Government productivity
ISBN : OCLC:463633254

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Getting More for Less by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexander Kalb
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783834986979

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Public Sector Efficiency by Alexander Kalb Pdf

Alexander Kalb applies advanced and novel econometric as well as linear programming techniques to investigate the sources of potential inefficiencies for local governments in Germany. He uncovers socio-economic, fiscal as well as political sources of inefficiencies. Finally, he makes recommendations how these inefficiencies in the provision of public goods and services can be reduced in the future.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264279865

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Systems Approaches to Public Sector Challenges Working with Change by OECD Pdf

This report, produced by the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, explores how systems approaches can be used in the public sector to solve complex or “wicked” problems.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429966514

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Public Sector Performance by Richard Kearney Pdf

Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, and new technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are seeking means of improving their performance. Their quest is not new, rather, the concern with improving the performance of government organizations has existed since the Scientific Management Movement. Public Sector Performance brings together in a single volume the classic, enduring principles and processes that have defined the field of public sector performance, as written in the words of leading practitioners and scholars. Taken as a whole, this volume provides a performance compass for today's public managers, helping them to reconstruct the public's confidence in, and support of, government.Defined here as managing public organizations for outcomes, performance is examined in all its varied dimensions: organizing work, managing workers, measuring performance, and overcoming resistance to performance-enhancing innovations. The selected articles are interesting, thought provoking, and instructive. They are classics in that they have been widely cited in the scholarly literature and have enduring value to public managers who seek to understand the many dimensions of performance. The book is organized into three sections: Performance Foundations, Performance Strategies, and Performance Measurement. Excerpts from additional selected articles feature special topics and wisdom from performance experts.

Author : Nadeem Ul Haque,Muslehuddin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil service reform
ISBN : UOM:39015073612114

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Public Sector Efficiency by Nadeem Ul Haque,Muslehuddin Pdf