Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector: Future Directions from International Experience - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560002921 ISBN 13: 9781560002925

Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

... performance monitoring needs to include the 3 Ds: the manager's capacity for DIAGNOSIS of new problems, DESIGN of new solutions, and DEVELOPMENT of their implementation. ...

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-The latest in a series on evaluation from an international perspective, this book goes beyond description to draw lessons from cross-cultural comparisons... This well-written book avoids jargon and provides useful definitions (e.g., differences between performance monitoring, policy analysis, and program evaluation).- --M. A. Saint-Germain, Choice "The latest in a series on evaluation from an international perspective, this book goes beyond description to draw lessons from cross-cultural comparisons... This well-written book avoids jargon and provides useful definitions (e.g., differences between performance monitoring, policy analysis, and program evaluation)." --M. A. Saint-Germain, Choice "The latest in a series on evaluation from an international perspective, this book goes beyond description to draw lessons from cross-cultural comparisons... This well-written book avoids jargon and provides useful definitions (e.g., differences between performance monitoring, policy analysis, and program evaluation)." --M. A. Saint-Germain, Choice

Synopsis

Eleven contributions provide an overview of performance monitoring, discuss design and implementation, and compare performance monitoring internationally, in various policy areas e.g. health care, police performance, and policy advice to government. They explain why interest in performance evaluation exists in a given setting and why it may have fa

Edition details

• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560002921
• ISBN 13: 9781560002925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 293
• Editor: Mayne John, Zapico-Goni Eduardo