Disparate measures: Public managers and performance-measurement strategies

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Nicholson-Crotty, S; Theobald, NA; Nicholson-Crotty, J
• 署名单位: University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; University of Kansas; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00559.x
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 101-113
• 关键词: government; outcomes; LESSONS

摘要

Over the past two decades, many studies have investigated the scope and significance of performance measurement in public organizations. Nonetheless, there is more to learn about the challenges facing public managers who want to measure organizational outputs and use the feedback to improve performance. Specifically, managers are often faced with redundant measures of the same output each of which may be preferred by a different political principal or stakeholder. Furthermore, a managers choice of measures can have serious consequences for both the estimation of agency problems and the success of programmatic solutions. We test these assertions in an analysis Of educational organizations in Texas. We find that managers' assessments of organizational performance and decisions regarding solutions depend on the choice of performance measures.