Performance‐based management is pervasive in public organizations; countless
governments have implemented performance management systems with the hope that they …

The practice and profession of evaluation is continually evolving. From its early origin in the
Great Society years of the 1960s, through its golden years of the 1970s, its transformation …

China has a highly centralized bureaucracy that is no longer strictly monitored by political
loyalty but by governance performance (eg, economic growth), rewarded with promotion and …

Although performance management processes are widely assumed to be beneficial in
improving organizational performance in the public sector, there is insufficient empirical …

New edition of a classic guide to ensuring effective organizational performance Thoroughly
revised and updated, the second edition of Managing and Measuring Performance in Public …

This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated
model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how …

This research undertakes a theoretical and empirical examination of (high performance
bonus) systems in government, that is, incentive payments awarded by the federal …

Contract incentives are designed to motivate contractor performance and to provide public
managers with a powerful tool to achieve contract accountability. Our knowledge of contract …

Vouchers are meant to increase competition and consumer choice in public service markets.
Using the example of training vouchers for the unemployed in the USA and Germany, we …

Financial incentives are used throughout the public and private sectors to control costs,
expedite projects, maximize quality, and encourage performance. Although federal agencies …