9781538125687-1538125684-Making Government Work (Making Government Work, Volume 1)

Making Government Work (Making Government Work, Volume 1)

ISBN-13: 9781538125687
ISBN-10: 1538125684
Author: Katherine Barrett
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Paperback 190 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781538125687
ISBN-10: 1538125684
Author: Katherine Barrett
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Paperback 190 pages

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Making Government Work (Making Government Work, Volume 1) (ISBN-13: 9781538125687 and ISBN-10: 1538125684), written by authors Katherine Barrett, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Urban Planning & Development (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Making Government Work (Making Government Work, Volume 1) (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Urban Planning & Development books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.71.

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In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way—and how to avoid them.

As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-based management, process improvement, research and evaluation. In the past, many of the efforts to improve performance in government have been fragmented, separated into silos and labeled with a variety of different names including performance-based budgeting, performance-informed management, managing for results and so on.

Making Government Work: The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management by Katherine Barrett and Rich Greene is loaded with dozens of stories of what practitioners are currently working on—what’s working and what’s not. The benefits are ample, so are the challenges. This book describes both, along with practical steps taken by practitioners to make government work better. Readers will discover that while the authors strive to meet the documentation standards of carefully vetted academic papers, the approach they take is journalistic. Over the last year, Barrett and Greene talked to scores of state and local officials, as well as academics and other national experts to find out how performance management tools and approaches have changed, and what is coming in the near-term future.

Performance management has been in a state of evolution for decades now, and so Barrett and Greene have endeavored to capture the state of the world as it is today. By detailing both the challenges and conquests of performance management in Making Government Work: The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management, Barrett and Greene ensure readers will find the kind of balanced information that is helpful to both academics and practitioners—and that can move the field forward.

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