Description
Book SynopsisIn Pursuit of Performance is an invaluable tool for government leaders and the scholars who study them.
Trade Review"An important and valuable report about an important and valuable project. The information and statistics about procedural variations in governments around the nation and the status of their management systems have never been compiled and presented before with anywhere near this level of detail and analytical rigor." - Hal G. Rainey, University of Georgia, author of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, 3rd ed., and Modernizing Human Resource Management in the Federal Government"
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1. Studying State and Local Management Systems: Why We Need to Do It
Chapter 2. Putting Money Where the Need Is: Managing the Finances of State and Local Governments
Chapter 3. Underpinning Government: Capital and Infrastructure Management in State and Local Government
Chapter 4. Government's Largest Investment: Human Resource Management in States, Counties, and Cities
Chapter 5. The Performance Challenge: Information Technology Management in States, Counties, and Cities
Chapter 6. The Reality of Results: Managing for Results in State and Local Government
Chapter 7. Integration of Management Systems in State and Local Government
Chapter 8. Learning to Build Capacity: Applying the GPP Model to Other Governments
Chapter 9. Counting the Ways Management Matters to Performance
Appendix A: The Analytical Model for the GPP
Appendix B: Criteria Used by GPP Analysts
Appendix C: Governments Evaluated by the GPP
List of Contributors
Index
