In pursuit of performance : management systems in state and local government / edited by Patricia W. Ingraham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingraham, Patricia W.

Government Performance Project (U.S.)

Series:

Johns Hopkins studies in governance and public management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government productivity--United States.

Government productivity.

Management information systems.

United States.

Management information systems--United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

ix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Public management experts have stressed the importance of such varied concepts as efficiency, process, systems, and capacity as key to effective government. The authors of Government Performance argue, however, that one quality above all is crucial to government performance: effective management. To prove their point, they offer in-depth quantitative analyses of public management systems in all fifty states, thirty-five cities, forty counties, and a number of federal agencies, examining management systems for finances, human resources, information technology, and capital, as well as how results are managed.

Contents:

Studying state and local management systems / Patricia W. Ingraham

Putting money where the need is / Yilin Hou

Underpinning government / Carol Ebdon

Government's largest investment / Sally Coleman Selden and Willow Jacobson

The performance challenge / B.J. Reed, Lyn Holley, and Donna Dufner

The reality of results / Donald P. Moynihan

Integration of management systems in state and local government / Ora-Orn Poocharoen and Patricia W. Ingraham

Learning to build capacity / Dale Jones and Dana Michael Harsell

Counting the ways management matters to performance / Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald P. Moynihan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801885686

080188568X

OCLC:

70676519