Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services
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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.

Table of Contents:
List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Foreword Chris Hood; 1. Introduction: knowledge and performance - theory and practice Kieran Walshe, Gill Harvey and Pauline Jas; 2. Knowledge from inspection: external oversight and information to improve performance Steve Martin; 3. How is information used to improve public performance? Exploring the dynamics of performance information Steven Van de Walle and Wouter Van Dooren; 4. Citizens, users or consumers: the voice of the public and its influence on improving performance Ian Greener; 5. Competition and contestability: the place of markets in connecting information and performance improvement Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson; 6. The role of corporate governance and boards in organizational performance Chris Cornforth and Naomi Chambers; 7. Change at the top: connecting political and managerial transition with performance George Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John and Nicolai Petrovsky; 8. The role of leadership in knowledge creation and transfer for organizational learning and improvement Jean Hartley and Lyndsay Rashman; 9. Process improvement and lean thinking: using knowledge and information to improve performance Zoe Radnor; 10. Using evidence: how social research could be better used to improve public service performance Huw Davies, Sandra Nutley and Isabel Walter; 11. Absorptive capacity: how organizations assimilate and apply knowledge to improve performance Gill Harvey, Pauline Jas, Kieran Walshe and Chris Skelcher; 12. Knowing through doing: unleashing latent dynamic capabilities in the public sector Ann Casebeer, Trish Reay, James Dewald and Amy Pablo; 13. Conclusions: a puzzle, three pieces, many theories and a problem Colin Talbot; Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780511762000
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • Sub Title: From Knowing to Doing
  • ISBN-10: 0511762003
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2011
  • Language: English


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