Public Service Performance

Author : George A. Boyne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460455
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Service Performance written by George A. Boyne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Leisink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192645595
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing for Public Service Performance written by Peter Leisink and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can management make a meaningful contribution to the performance of public services? Around the world, public organizations face increasingly complex social issues related to globalization, migration, health crises, national security, and climate change. To meet these challenges, we need a better understanding of what managing for public service performance means, and what it requires from public managers and public servants. This book takes a multidisciplinary, critical, and context-sensitive approach to address such questions. Through a comparative review of public administration research, it examines a variety of management aspects such as leadership behavior, human resource management, performance, diversity, and change management. It also critically reflects on how the context of the public sector affects the management-performance relationship in democratic societies, as well as the influence of numerous stakeholders and their beliefs about the nature and purpose of public service. By clarifying conceptual issues and taking a theoretical and evidence-based approach to the relationships between management and performance, this book offers new directions for research and a framework to help improve public services in practice.

Author : Deborah Blackman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789901200
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Performance Management in the Public Sector written by Deborah Blackman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042997759X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Sector Performance written by Richard Kearney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard M. Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107203235
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Management and Performance written by Richard M. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Public services touch the majority of people in advanced and developing economies on a daily basis: children require schooling, the elderly need personal care and assistance, rubbish needs collecting, water must be safe to drink and the streets need policing. In short, there is practically no area of our lives that isn't touched in some way by public services. As such, knowledge about strategies to improve their performance is central to the good of society. In this book, a group of leading scholars examine some of the most pressing issues in public administration, political science and public policy by undertaking a systematic review of the research literature on public management and the performance of public agencies. It is an important resource for public management researchers, policy-makers and practitioners who wish to understand the current state of the field and the challenges that lie ahead"--

Author : Peter Leisink
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0192893424
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing for Public Service Performance written by Peter Leisink and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comparative overview of public administration performance in twenty-eight EU member states, this book takes a critical, multidisciplinary approach to address how management can make a meaningful contribution to the performance of public services.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042997759X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Sector Performance written by Richard Kearney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John David Millett
Publisher : New York, McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management in the Public Service written by John David Millett and published by New York, McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1954 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rachel E. Ashworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199545480
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Service Improvement written by Rachel E. Ashworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance of public services is a matter of concern in many countries. Issues of public service efficiency, cost, and effectiveness have moved to the forefront of political debate. This book applies the latest thinking from Management and Organization Studies to public organizations to examine how the public sector can perform better.

Author : Richard Boyle
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration
ISBN 13 : 9781904541240
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Service Performance Indicators written by Richard Boyle and published by Institute of Public Administration. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: