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Organizational assessment : a framework for improving performance / Charles Lusthaus ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational effectiveness--Evaluation.
- Organizational effectiveness.
- Sustainable development--Developing countries.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book offers a clear-cut methodology to diagnose institutional strengths and weakness at the onset of development activities. In this way, beneficiaries can respond to growing pressures from donor governments and organizations for accountable and sustainable use of development funding. The authors examine all aspects of organizational performance, including the enabling environment, institutional capacity, management, financial viability, and staff motivation. They also review the methodological issues involved in carrying out an assessment, ranging from the choice and framing of questions
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction: Changes in Development Assistance
- Ch. 2. The Enabling Environment and Organizational Performance
- Ch. 3. Capacity
- Ch. 4. Organizational Motivation
- Ch. 5. Performance
- Ch. 6. Methodological Issues in Organizational Assessment
- Ch. 7. Implementing an Organizational Assessment
- App. 1. Environment Assessment Questions
- App. 2. An Organizational Assessment - Sample Report Outline.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Co-published by: Inter-American Development Bank.
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [191]-202.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-71729-7
- 9786610717293
- 1-55250-020-9
- OCLC:
- 475991585
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