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Effectiveness Of Public Services On Performance Management

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Andrews (2014) pulled together considerable amounts of research about performance management from around the world and came to four conclusions:
1. The effectiveness of public services can be enhanced by the use of performance management. Leading to, citizens benefitting from a positive impact and improved outcomes.
2. Efficiency savings are not always a direct result of performance management alone, if organisations want to save budgets they may need alternatives ideas.
3. Ground level performance measures prove most effective, however it is important to look at learning through comparisons with similar organisations, this allows healthy competition.
4. Where performance indicators widely have public support, such as NHS waiting times, is the area where performance management proves most effective in delivering improvements. However, performance management effectiveness may be influenced by several other factors including leadership and organisational culture.
It is an fascinating time for performance management which is being closely questioned and looked at by those wanting to understand some of the the key challenges in practice, and how successful performance management is providing better outcomes for citizens. Outcomes are often defined as—outcomes for effectiveness (improving how we do things) and outcomes for efficiency (doing things in a more cost-effective way). (Wolf and Fry 2013). Both of these outcomes are central to the NHS performance framework.

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