Open AccessNew Zealand Productivity Commission internship: social sector productivity
Author(s) -
Danijela Tavich
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v13i4.4584
Subject(s) - productivity , internship , social sector , commission , typology , government (linguistics) , christian ministry , business , management , economics , political science , sociology , economic growth , finance , law , linguistics , philosophy , anthropology
For my internship I prepared a short paper on social sector productivity for the Productivity Commission. The objective was to consider the implications of introducing productivity measurement in the social sector, given some of the complexities of observing outputs and outcomes for certain sector tasks. To do this I selected one typology, James Q. Wilson’s matrix of government tasks in Gregory (1995b), and attempted to apply this to a set of tasks within one organisation in the social sector, namely the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). The tasks were drawn from MSD’s annual report for 2015/16.