Organizational Performance and Measurement in the Public Sector
Toward Service, Effort and Accomplishment Reporting
Published on 20. March 1996
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-89930-958-3 (ISBN)
Description
Legislative initiative, in response to public demands for more accountability, require public agencies at all levels of government to measure organizational performance and to report on service efforts and accomplishments (SEA). What considerations should managers use in developing performance measurement protocols? What is the experience to date in the U.S. and abroad? This collection of original articles does not represent a consensus about the one best way for developing an SEA reporting system. Rather, it aims to put performance measurement in perspective by relating it to the budgeting, auditing, and policy making processes. Towards that end, the issues managers need to consider are examined in a critical way and from various points of view.
This book addresses the issues involved in developing Service Effort and Accomplishment (SEA) reports from various points of view. It addresses the context of SEA reporting and relates performance measurement to the budgeting process, auditing process, and policy making. It provides examples of successful performance measurement protocols from the U.S. and abroad.
This book addresses the issues involved in developing Service Effort and Accomplishment (SEA) reports from various points of view. It addresses the context of SEA reporting and relates performance measurement to the budgeting process, auditing process, and policy making. It provides examples of successful performance measurement protocols from the U.S. and abroad.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
716 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89930-958-3 (9780899309583)
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ARIE HALACHMI is Professor of Public Management at the Institute of Government at Tennessee State University, and is affiliated with the Netherlands Institute of Government and the University of Twente. He is the Rapporteur of the International Working Group on Public Sector Productivity of the Brussels Based International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) and the author or coauthor of several books and numerous articles on public sector management and productivity issues. He is also the managing editor of Public Productivity and Management Review.
GEERT BOUCKAERT is Professor at the Public Management Centre of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium. He holds graduate degrees in Business Engineering, Political Sciences, and Philosophy, and earned his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Bouckaert's fields of research are public sector productivity and financial management.
GEERT BOUCKAERT is Professor at the Public Management Centre of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium. He holds graduate degrees in Business Engineering, Political Sciences, and Philosophy, and earned his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Bouckaert's fields of research are public sector productivity and financial management.
Content
Foreword by Harry Hatry Introduction Performance Appraisal and Rubik's Cube The Challenge by Arie Halachmi and Geert Bouckaert Positioning Performance Measurement for the Twenty-First Century by John Greiner Redeeming the Promise of Performance Measurement: Issues and obstacles for governments in the USA by Paul D. Epstein Promises and Possible Pitfalls on the Way to SEA Reporting by Arie Halachmi Service Efforts and Accomplishment Reporting Implementing Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting: The Portland Experience by Daniel E. O'Tool and Brian Stipak Institutionalizing SEA Reporting Across the Budget by Mary Timney Bailey Integrating Performance Measurement and Budgeting by Gerasimos A. Gianakis Performance Measurement in Context The Political Economy of Performance Measurement by Tony Bovaird Annual Performance Accounting and Auditing: Is it Possible? by Bo Sandberg Productivity in Professional Services: To Measure or not to Measure by Jean Harvey Local Government Standards Via Professional Associations: How Useful Are They for Gauging Performance? by David N. Ammons Performance Measurement: International Perspectives Measurement of Public Sector Performance: Some European Perspectives by Geert Bouckaert Performance Indicators: The British Experience by Tony Bovaird and David Gregory The Authority's Performance - A Practical Assessment by Magnus Medelberg Experiences With Performance Measurement in the Central Government; The Case of the Netherlands by A. Sorber Performance Monitoring System in the Republic of China on Taiwan by Shih-Hsien Chang