The Politics Of Public Sector Performance

Author : Michael Roll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317934547

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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 : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429966514

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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 : Jenny M. Lewis,Anne Tiernan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192527882

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The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics by Jenny M. Lewis,Anne Tiernan Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia's distinctive politics— both ancient and modern— at all levels and across many themes. It examines the factors that make Australian politics unique and interesting, while firmly placing these in the context of the nation's Indigenous and imported heritage and global engagement. The book presents an account of Australian politics that recognizes and celebrates its inherent diversity by taking a thematic approach in six parts. The first theme addresses Australia's unique inheritances, examining the development of its political culture in relation to the arrival of British colonists and their conflicts with First Nations peoples, as well as the resulting geopolitics. The second theme, improvization, focuses on Australia's political institutions and how they have evolved. Place-making is then considered to assess how geography, distance, Indigenous presence, and migration shape Australian politics. Recurrent dilemmas centres on a range of complex, political problems and their influence on contemporary political practice. Politics, policy, and public administration covers how Australia has been a world leader in some respects, and a laggard in others, when dealing with important policy challenges. The final theme, studying Australian politics, introduces some key areas in the study of Australian politics and identifies the strengths and shortcomings of the discipline. The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is an opportunity for others to consider the nation's unique politics from the perspective of leading and emerging scholars, and to gain a strong sense of its imperfections, its enduring challenges, and its strengths.

Author : Wouter Van Dooren,Geert Bouckaert,John Halligan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317814160

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Performance Management in the Public Sector by Wouter Van Dooren,Geert Bouckaert,John Halligan Pdf

In times of rising expectations and decreasing resources for the public sector, performance management is high on the agenda. Increasingly, the value of the performance management systems themselves is under scrutiny, with more attention being paid to the effectiveness of performance management in practice. This new edition has been revised and updated to examine: performance in the context of current public management debates, including emerging discussions on the New Public Governance and neo-Weberianism; the many definitions of performance and how it has become one of the most contested agendas of public management; the so-called perverse effects of using performance indicators; the technicalities of performance measurement in a five step process: prioritising measurement, indicator development, data collection, analysis and reporting; and the future challenges and directions of performance management Performance Management in the Public Sector 2nd edition offers an approachable insight into a complex theme for practitioners and public management students alike.

Author : Deborah Blackman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789901207

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Handbook on Performance Management in the Public Sector by Deborah Blackman Pdf

This timely Handbook examines performance management research specific to the public sector and its contexts, and provides suggestions for future developments in the field. It demonstrates the need for performance management to be reconceptualized as a core component of business both within and across organizations, and how it must be embedded in both strategic decision-making and as a day-to-day leadership and management practice in order to be effective.

Author : Trudi C. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:49015000224999

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Public Sector Performance by Trudi C. Miller Pdf

Author : P. Lægreid,K. Verhoest
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230290600

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Governance of Public Sector Organizations by P. Lægreid,K. Verhoest Pdf

Governance of Public Sector Organizations a nalyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate how generations of reform result in increased complexity of government organizations, and explain this layering process with multiple theories.

Author : John Winston Mayne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351504850

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Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector by John Winston Mayne Pdf

A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining public trust, these reform efforts seek to improve policy decisions and public management. Along the way, program efficiency and effectiveness help rebuild public confidence in government. Whether through regular measurement of program inputs, activities, and outcomes, or through episodic one-shot studies, performance monitoring plays a central role in the most important current reform efforts. Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector, now available in paperback, is based on experiences derived from comparative analysis in different countries. It explains why there is interest in perfor!mance monitoring in a given setting, why it has failed or created uncertainties, and identifies criteria for improving its design and use.One of the challenges this book offers is the need to consider dimensions of performance beyond the traditional ones of economy, efficiency, and effectiveness. With an increasingly diverse, interdependent, and uncertain public sector environment, for some stakeholders meeting objectives fixed some time ago may not be as important as the capacity to adapt to current and future change. In this vein, the contributors address a number of themes: the criti!cal importance of organizational support for performance monitoring and making it consistent with the organizational culture, the need for active and effective leadership in defining criteria and implementing practical performance monitoring, the value of linking ongoing measurement with more than the traditional, strictly quantitative aspects of public sector performance.As we gain experience with performance monitoring and its uses, such systems should become more cost effective over time. This book will be of deep interest to public managers, government officials, economists, and organization theorists, and useful in courses on p

Author : Wouter Van Dooren,Steven Van de Walle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137105417

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Performance Information in the Public Sector by Wouter Van Dooren,Steven Van de Walle Pdf

Combining practical experience with academic analysis this book explores the social and organizational dynamics of performance indicators. It moves beyond the technicalities of measurement and indicators and looks at how performance information is changing the public sector.

Author : Ian Kirkpatrick,Miguel Martinez-Lucio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034868268

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The Politics of Quality in the Public Sector by Ian Kirkpatrick,Miguel Martinez-Lucio Pdf

In recent years there has been a growth of quality-orientated management projects within public sector organizations. This volume examines the reasons behind their development, the changes which have been brought about, and the tensions and contradictions which have arisen as a result.

Author : George A. Boyne,Kenneth J. Meier,Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr.,Richard M. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139460453

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Public Service Performance by George A. Boyne,Kenneth J. Meier,Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr.,Richard M. Walker Pdf

The performance of governments around the globe is constantly in the spotlight, whether as a celebration or indictment of their activities. Providing evidence on strategies to improve the performance of public agencies is therefore essential to the practice of public management. Originally published in 2006, this important contribution to the debate explores issues of measurement, research methodology, and management influences on performance. It focuses on three key questions: what approaches should be adopted to measure the performance of public agencies? What aspects of management influence the performance of public agencies? As the world globalizes, what are the key international issues in performance measurement and management? In examining these questions, the contributors debate both methodological and technical issues regarding the measurement of performance in public organizations, and provide empirical analyses of the determinants of performance. The book concludes with groundbreaking work on the international dimensions of these issues.

Author : Frans Minnaar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 0627026532

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Strategic and Performance Management in the Public Sector by Frans Minnaar Pdf

"Public administration comprises two integrated components, namely the political process in terms of which government policy is formulated, and a management process in terms of how this policy must be implemented. The introduction of strategic and performance management systems and procedures in the public sector has become international standard practice, often resulting in a comprehensive redesign of the traditionally bureaucratic legislative framework -- strategic management links the government organisation to the community, thus incorporating the actual needs of the community in government's planning, while performance management gears the organisation towards service delivery. Strategic and performance management in the public sector provides an integrated management model for 21st century government organisations. This book is a step-by-step presentation of the strategic and performance management process, starting with government policies and culminating in a comprehensive performance management system. It contains practical examples, activities, relevant legislation boxes and supplementary material for further understanding."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367435160

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Public Sector Reform and Performance Management in Developed Economies by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Over the past two decades, there has been a shift of paradigm in public administration and public sector accounting around the world with the increasing emphasis on outcomes as opposed to inputs and outputs focus. Understanding of how government departments and agencies develop and implement outcomes-based approaches to their services and programs to strengthen public accountability, financial scrutiny and good governance worldwide is limited. Covering a selection of international practices on outcomes-based approaches to government departments, agencies and public higher educational institutions in developed economies, this comprehensive compilation provides an essential reading in the public sector accounting, accountability and performance management field. The contributions are grouped into three jurisdictions: Australasia, UK and Europe, and North America. It incorporates outcomes-based practices in public services from advanced economies and will be of significant interest to global public sector regulators, consultants, researchers, and academic communities as well as academic researchers in public administration and development studies fields. The insights offered by a country-specific practice will also be useful to governments in other countries implementing similar systems and practices and facing similar socio-political environments. This book will also help to gain an understanding of the issues of government accountability from a management point of view as well as from a socio-political point of view.

Author : Darrell M. West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1409478884

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Digital government by Darrell M. West Pdf

Author : Shlomo Mizrahi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319523507

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Public Policy and Performance Management in Democratic Systems by Shlomo Mizrahi Pdf

This book applies various theoretical tools to explore the advantages and disadvantages of performance management systems, the ways in which they can be improved, and the strategies through which they can be designed and integrated into the policy making process. By providing both theoretical insights and practical applications, it offers a unique perspective. Using four methods of research that have been rarely applied in the performance management literature: formal (game-theoretical) modelling, operational management, new institutionalism, and cross country statistical comparisons based on international data sets, the book illuminates different aspects of performance management systems in the public sector. It offers an integrative theoretical framework for explaining and designing such systems and their integration into the policy making process, and will open up new avenues of research, expose scholars and students to new methodological tools and equip public officials, politicians and citizens with practical methods for improving the performance of the public sector.