Connecting knowledge and performance in public services : from knowing to doing / edited by Kieran Walshe, Gill Harvey, Pauline Jas.
"The performance of public services is now more closely scrutinised than ever before. Every teacher, doctor, social worker or probation officer knows that behind them stands a restless army of overseers, equipped with a panoply of league tables, star ratings, user opinion surveys, performance i...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "The performance of public services is now more closely scrutinised than ever before. Every teacher, doctor, social worker or probation officer knows that behind them stands a restless army of overseers, equipped with a panoply of league tables, star ratings, user opinion surveys, performance indicators and the like with which to judge them. This increased scrutiny and performance measurement has undoubtedly produced improved public services. Yet we still have a limited understanding about how this information can be best used to bring about improvements in performance. What goes on inside the 'black box' of public organisations to move from information to action, or from 'knowing' to 'doing'? This book tackles this important question by reviewing a wide range of performance mechanisms. It explores how information about performance can be translated into improvements in services and, conversely, why this does not always happen in practice"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511762003 9780511762000 0511858604 9780511858604 0511859473 9780511859472 051186034X 9780511860348 1282941879 9781282941878 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511762000 |