Premium
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN COMPLEX PUBLIC PROGRAMMES
Author(s) -
Osborne Stephen P.,
Bovaird Tony,
Martin Steve,
Tricker Mike,
Waterston Piers
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
financial accountability and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.661
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1468-0408
pISSN - 0267-4424
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0408.1995.tb00394.x
Subject(s) - accountability , public administration , business , public management , accounting , new public management , public sector , political science , law
This paper examines the assessment of performance in complex public programmes. It reviews and critiques ways currently used to do this, and offers an alternative framework which it is argued is more responsive to the multilayered nature of performance in such programmes. It then demonstrates the applicability of this framework to a specific public programme. This is the Social Programme of the Rural Development Commission, which seeks to identify and meet social needs in rural areas of England. It ends by drawing some general conclusions from this exercise.