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This study aims towards conducting a literature review of accountability in public sector.... Another study regarding the unintended or intended outcome of performance measurement in the public sector was conducted by Adcroft and Willis (2005).... There are several studies in accounting that have emphasized on the introduction of accounting system in the public sector for sustaining and enforcing the mechanism of competition-based resource allocation....
4 Pages
(1000 words)
Literature review
This paper "Performance and Productivity in public and Nonprofit Organizations" focuses on the fact that as awareness for global human needs improves, we see visible solutions to various alternatives.... nbsp;When a need for performance measurement was recognized, businesses small or large started to follow various ways to calculate the best way to define performance measurement....
Media oversight
The media in the general course of business does the effective work of a watchdog in terms of looking out for fraudulent activity in any sector....
7 Pages
(1750 words)
Case Study
The Use of Performance Measurement Targets within the public sector: A case study of Her Majesty's Prison and Ambulance Services: Could Target Performance Measurement be used to improve the quality of public services with specific emphasis on training with HM Prison and… The current system used for performance measurement within Her Majesty's Prison with respect to training is through the use of average contact time that a given trainer attains.... Hence, this paper shall seek to investigate the efficacy of the government target performance measurement with specific reference to Her Majesty's Prison as well as Ambulance Services; a sub-component of the National Health Services (NHS) in order to have a wider view of its efficacy on the quality of service provision within the public sector....
28 Pages
(7000 words)
Essay
"Increasing Public-sector Effectiveness by Changing Organisational Culture" determines a model for organizational effectiveness in public-sector organizations.... The organizational culture is shaped by organizational structure, environment, and values, beliefs and underlying assumptions....
10 Pages
(2500 words)
Coursework
This paper "Performance-Based Reward Systems are Unsuitable for the public sector" evaluates the appropriateness of performance-based rewards system in the public sector.... It is argued that though the performance-related pay system may work well in the private sector, this may not be appropriate for the public sector.... The second section discusses the theoretical arguments on performance based rewards in the public sector....
8 Pages
(2000 words)
Essay
The increased pressures to achieve transparency, accountability, and value for money boosted the importance of measuring the performance of public sector organizations and attracted the academic and management attention (Wisniewski & Stewart, 2004).... nbsp;… It is possible only in an ideal world that organizations have unlimited resources and they are operating in a risk-free environment and they do not need any performance measurement tool.... Today, organizations have complex and well-defined performance measurement systems....
7 Pages
(1750 words)
Article
The paper "Performance Management Operation Impact on the Employee Performance in the public sector" is composed of presenting a proposed research study based on measuring the impact of performance management operations upon the performance of employees.... The employees consider that implementation of performance measurement processes can risk their availability within the organizations.... This is because the results of the measurement process can point their areas of weaknesses prominently....
13 Pages
(3250 words)
Research Paper
The primary issue of effectively managing performance in the public sector is the challenge of embedding it within the organization's culture (Accenture, 2009).... In a detailed study of public sector performance management, Accenture (2009) determined that “performance management is not being used in a strategic or proactive way to anticipate, respond to and mitigate performance issues before they escalate into problems” which results in merely reporting accomplishments and failures and not methods of improvement (p....
13 Pages
(3250 words)
Research Proposal