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Is the Performance Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
Author(s) -
Kamensky John M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02597.x
Subject(s) - ibm , center (category theory) , administration (probate law) , accountability , citation , library science , government (linguistics) , management , political science , law , computer science , philosophy , economics , linguistics , chemistry , materials science , crystallography , nanotechnology
Next year will be the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Has it achieved its goal of creating a performance culture within the federal government? In their article “Does Involvement in Performance Management Routines Encourage Performance Information Use? Evaluating GPRA and PART,” Professors Donald P. Moynihan and Stephane Lavertu off er fi ndings that are both discouraging and hopeful to practitioners. In their article, they assess “the relationship between results-based reforms and managerial use of performance data.” To do this, they analyze federal managers’ use of the performance information that was created in response to the act’s requirements.