Designing Performance Appraisals: Assessing Needs and Designing Performance Management Systems in the Public Sector (Managing the Public Service: Strategies for Improvement Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850926300 ISBN 13: 9780850926309

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2000

Synopsis

The purpose of this publication is fourfold. It aims to:
- respond to the pressures for improvement in the delivery of public
services
- design a performance management appraisal system suitable for particular countries, states, organizations, employers and employees
- demonstrate how to measure performance, using case studies from
Barbados, Samoa and Tonga
- determine how the performance appraisal system can be institutionalized in the entire administrative system

The overall approach is to conduct a needs assessment in the ministries, then to design an appropriate appraisal instrument, train its users and, finally, install the system so that it becomes part and parcel of the public service machinery. The emphasis on developing techniques of designing the performance appraisal instrument itself.

Edition details

• Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850926300
• ISBN 13: 9780850926309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Agere Sam, Jorm Noella