Measuring the performance of public services: principles and practice

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Measuring the performance of public services: principles and practice
المؤلفون: Pidd, Michael.
بيانات النشر: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2012.
سنة النشر: 2012
وصف مادي: xv, 316 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
مصطلحات موضوعية: Public administration -- Management., Public administration -- Management -- Evaluation., Public administration -- Evaluation., BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
الوصف: "Measuring the performance of public agencies and programmes is essential to ensure that citizens enjoy quality services and that governments can be sure that taxpayers receive value for money. As such, good performance measurement is a crucial component of improvement and planning, monitoring and control, comparison and benchmarking and also ensures democratic accountability. This book shows how the principles, uses and practice of performance measurement for public services differ from those in for-profit organisations, being based on the need to add public value rather than profit. It describes methods and approaches for measuring performance through time, for constructing and using scorecards, composite indicators, the use of league tables and rankings and argues that data-envelopment analysis is a useful tool when thinking about performance. This demonstrates the importance of allowing for the multidimensional nature of performance, as well as the need to base measurement on a sound technical footing"--
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: Machine generated contents note: List of figures; List of tables; preface; Part I. Principles of Performance Measurement: 1. Measuring public sector performance; 2. Why measure, what to measure and what can go wrong. -- Part II. Different Uses for Performance Measurement: 3. Measurement for improvement and planning; 4. Measurement for monitoring and control; 5. Measurement for comparison; 6. Measurement for accountability. -- Part III. Practical Methods for Performance Measurement: 7. Measuring performance through time; 8. Scorecards and multidimensional indicators; 9. Composite indicators; 10. League tables and ranking; 11. Data envelopment analysis. -- References; Index.
Original Identifier: ocn757838253
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-1-107-00465-8
1-107-00465-9
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.013130537.9
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
الوصف
ردمك:9781107004658
1107004659