Complex Relationship between Performance and Management - Article Example

Running Header: Article critique Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Course Code: Date of Submission: Article critique Introduction The above article analyses the complex relationship between performance and management. It also shows how to develop and test a dual feedback model. The topic of the article is not important to the understanding of organizational behaviour since it does not show how organizational behavior affects performance of the business. Organizational effectiveness in UAE is also not reflected in this article. The introduction part does not give past background about the topic but shows the relationship between the variables which include public management and management for performance. The article also shows the relationship between systems theory and strategic theory showing their inconsistency on the dual feedback model of performance and public organization. There is therefore no statement of problem in this article. This article analyses the strengths and weaknesses in terms of style of writing, definition of the problem, methodology and the analysis. Rather than comparing the variables in the introductory part, the author should have given a brief background about performance and management. Later the author should have shown how the relationship between performance and management affect the development and testing a dual feedback model. Creswell (2003) the introduction part shows where management performance is applied which include in local governments, schools, regulatory agencies. The author also shows the factors that affect the organizational outcomes. These factors include information technology, networking activities, decisions and innovations. The author puts it that the study suggests that the casual relationship between management and performance is reciprocal and that performance causes management. I think that this conclusion should not have been at the introduction part but at the conclusion part after the literature review. Literature review The literature review provided in this article is not comprehensively addressed due to various reasons. One is that the literature is not precise in that there is no much information showing how management matters in performance. In stead, the article should have shown the importance if management in business organizations and how its presence influence the performance of the organization. The author is therefore not original since there is no evidence of a comprehensive study. The literature is also not up to date most of the references are from 1960s for example the statement showing that the best performing public organizations are often led by innovative and effective managers who are capable of matching organizational practices and processes to the demand of the environment. The author talks of how management influences policy results for example through leadership, integration and assessment but it is not shown how these factors exactly affect policy results (Behn, 586-604). The author talks of a growing number of empirical studies have attempted to show yet it is not shown the authors of those studies. In the literature review the author talks of a set of authors exploring the utility of the framework offered by O’ Toole and Meier (1999) have found evidence of more direct managerial impact on outcomes. The writer should have shown the set of authors by name and what exactly was found out in their study. It is also not appropriate to say that the original authors with various coauthors, instead the writer should show the names of the original author and the names of the rest of the authors. The part for management matters does not show how management matters in an organization but has only shown what other scholars have said about management. Instead, this part should have been placed at the introduction part which shows the back ground information about what other authors view the topic. The ‘management matter’ part is therefore not comprehensively covered and does not end with a statement showing the importance of management (Holliday, 2007). In the ‘performance matter’ section, the writer had begun well showing a considerable support exist between management matter and performance but the statement should not have started with the word ‘thus’ since thus is a joining word and there is no part being joined in this section. Holliday (2007) suggests that the section should have instead shown how performance matters in every organization and the factors influencing performance. The part however talks of ‘one of the primary arguments in this essay is that the casual relationship between those variables may also be multidirectional’. The literature review is not original and the writer only uses one source of information rather that collecting more sources from different scholars. Collection of information from various sources gives the article some originality and evidence therefore the writer is in a good position of arguing out ideas through the evidence provided. Strengths and weaknesses of the article The strengths of this article include the fact that the study could help in certain aspects for example it asserts that the relationship between management and performance is more complex that it had been previously suggested by the empirical studies of managerial impact. The study also shows clearly that systems theoretical approach of public management suggests that a reciprocal relationship between performance and management. Readers will also learn that there exists competing expectations about the nature of the influence and that to reconcile the contrary expectations; a dual feedback model should be developed. Hatry (1999) describes that the dual feedback model is necessary as it generates a number of testable hypotheses about the complex relationship between performance and management. The weaknesses of this article involve the style used in the article, the originality, the flow and the grammar. The style used in this article is not consistent for example there is lack of originality, there is also no consistency in the style since the introduction part does not show the right components and also the literature review part has less sources and is not up to date. The problem definition in this article is not stated for example the writer should have shown the aim of the study, the objectives and why the study is being carried out. Methods The methodology of the study does not show the methods of data collection were used and how the writer came up with the literature provided. The methodology section shows that testing the hypotheses requires methodological strategies. However, the strategies are not given in the methodology part. The writer has simply not followed the contents that should be at the part for example by showing how the study information way collected and the participants available. The part shows that Granger casual analysis is used in analyzing performance and management but it is not shown how this data is collected and how the analysis is performed. This information is therefore not beneficial to the reader and needs more explanation. The part also shows the correlation of decisions within the organization and shows that ‘testing for the direction of the relationship between performance and management and the existence of different feedback processes within the same organization requires a different methodological approach’. This statement does not have a good flow and the meaning is also vague since there is no methodological approach introduced in this study so as to compare with that of performance and management (O’Toole, 45-52). Analysis The analysis of this study is not as the topic requires because I feel that the writer could have expanded on the topic and make it look more original. To begin with, the introduction past is not satisfactory for example it does not show the background of the topic understudy, the hypothesis and the problem statement. Weller and Romney (1998) shows these are essential in every introduction as they enable the reader to be aware of what the article is all about. The introduction part however shows the relationship between the variables which should have been at the conclusion part or in findings. The literature review is also not grammatically flowing and does not have enough information to support the argument of the study. The study should have study questions which the reader should be able to answer as they read the article but it is different at this article will need more explanation to be understood. Limitation of the study and conclusion In analyzing the above study, certain limitations may affect the reader for example difficult in comprehending various theories that are not well explained. The reader will also be faced with problems of identifying part that are beneficial to both academic learning and which can be applied in an organizational set up. The style is also not correct for example there is no flow in grammar and also the referencing style. The conclusion of the study is well explained at the beginning where it shows the two variables and how they relate to the organization. Zikmund et al. (2007) the study also concludes by showing that the dual feedback model is necessary as it generates a number of testable hypotheses about the complex relationship between performance and management the citation and reference sources are not the same as some of the sources in the references are not cited in the study. The writer has also used many books from one author and therefore did not embrace diversity of ideas. How the article contributes to the organizational behavior and UAE To some extent the article contributes to wider body of knowledge area in organizational behavior and also to countries in UAE in various ways. One is where the study shows that innovations have a substantively impact on the performance of public organizations. Organisations and UAE countries should therefore be able to determine which stage they are at in their innovations once they utilise the information given in this article. On the other hand, the article does not contribute to a wider body of knowledge of organizational behavior for example due to lack of originality, poor style of writing, poor grammar and lack of enough evidence about the information given. The organizations will also not be capable of understanding the article and therefore it will not be of any help to members (Zikmund et al., 2007). Comments The study’s readability is poor as the writer lacks originality and has not comprehensively covered much about the topic and therefore any person reading the article may find difficulty. There is no article flow as most of the statements given are quoted and they have no beneficial meaning to the topic of discussion. The reader has only concentrated in analyzing the variables which include performance and management but there is no information supporting the analysis. There is also lack of enough sources to support the literature review. This study therefore does not benefit any academic learning institution or practitioners as it needs much editing and more information should be added. Works Cited Behn, Robert. “Why Measure Performance? Different Purposes Require Different Measures.” Public Administration Review. 63.5(2003): 586-604. Creswell, J. Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method approaches, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2003. Holliday, A. Doing and writing qualitative research. 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications, 2007. O’Toole, Laurence. “Treating Networks Seriously: Practical and Research based Agendas in Public Administration.” Public Administration Review. 57 (1997): 45-52. Weller, S. & Romney, A. Systematic data collection, Qualitative research methods series, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1998. Zikmund, W. Ward, S. Lowe, B. & Winzar, H. Marketing research. Asia pacific edition, Cengage Learning Australia: South Melbourne, 2007. Read More