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Performance Budgeting Reform: Theories and International Practices
by Alfred Tat-Kei Ho Maarten De Jong Zaozao ZhaoUsing theoretical frameworks to explore the political, organizational, and cultural dynamics of performance budgeting, this book examines the adoption of performance budgeting in a variety of countries, how it has been implemented, and why it succeeded or failed. Chapters include case studies from a wide range of continents and regions including the U.S., Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Each case study pays careful attention to the unique historical, political, and cultural contexts of reform and closely examines how performance informed the budgetary process. Chapters investigate theory-driven analysis, focusing on common themes related to international policy diffusion, organizational change, stakeholder politics and gaming, communication and information management, principal–agent dynamics, and institutional constraints. Contributors include both scholars and seasoned practitioners with extensive experience in implementing or advising performance budgeting reforms. With emphases on both theories and practices, this book is written for graduate courses in public budgeting and comparative public administration, providing theoretical insights into budgeting reforms in developing countries, as well as practice-relevant and actionable recommendations for current and future policymakers and budget reformers.
Performance Budgeting (with CD): What Works, What Doesn't
by William G. Arnold CDFM-A, CCAImprove Your Agency's Performance Budgets and Accountability ReportsPerformance Budgeting: What Works, What Doesn't is a must-have resource for government officials implementing performance budgeting within their organizations. The author examines performance budgets and accountability reports from a cross-section of federal agencies and offers an objective critique of both their form and content. Examples of the best—and the worst—federal performance budgeting efforts offer insights and lessons for agency officials charged with determining the best performance budgeting techniques to put into practice. Readers will benefit from reviewing examples of other organizations' work and will learn how to use evaluation tools to apply performance budgeting techniques to their own organizations.Understand the evolution of performance budgeting and its inherent advantagesExamine the performance budgets and results for eleven federal agenciesBenchmark against the best agency submissions, and avoid the pitfalls of poor budgets and accountability reportsIdentify the attributes of good performance measures and learn how to develop themBonus! Includes a CD-ROM with the latest performance and accountability reports for all 24 CFO agencies.
Performance Challenges in Organizational Sustainability: Practices from Public and Private Sector (Responsible Leadership and Sustainable Management)
by Mari Kooskora Aleksandra KekkonenThis book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives. It focuses on challenges related to movements to transform the world economy into more modern, resource-efficient, and competitive, while keeping in mind harmonization of environmental, social, and governance objectives. This has brought along new initiatives and undertakings that invite people, communities, and organizations to participate in building greener and more sustainable future. The book discusses the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), EU Green Deal and Climate Pact, and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics. It tackles policies and strategies that integrate sustainable practices into business activities to align with these goals, focusing on the increasing number of regulations, such as ESG Reporting, Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and Green Taxonomy. The book highlights new challenges organizations will face as they navigate their way through these goals and regulations, and provides practical coping tips. It is divided into four main parts which consecutively discuss and analyze the concepts and approaches more generally in the first part, challenges, approaches, and metrics on green and sustainable performance on regional and local level in the second part; and on companies' level in the third part; and how top-down (public sector) and bottom-up (private sector) approaches meet. Finally, in the fourth part, the book showcases concrete cases and best practices related to the above-described topics showing how the challenges related to green and sustainable performance have been turned to new opportunities and competitive advantage in different organizations in different industries. The book is a valuable resource for not only academia, researchers, master, and doctoral level students (especially in the sustainability courses), and executive trainings, but also practitioners, politicians, public officials, and organizational leaders interested in turning their organizations into more sustainable units.
Performance Characterization and Benchmarking. Traditional to Big Data
by Raghunath Nambiar Meikel PoessThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2014, held in Hangzhou, China, in September 2014. It contains 12 selected peer-reviewed papers, a report from the TPC Public Relations Committee. Many buyers use TPC benchmark results as points of comparison when purchasing new computing systems. The information technology landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, challenging industry experts and researchers to develop innovative techniques for evaluation, measurement and characterization of complex systems. The TPC remains committed to developing new benchmark standards to keep pace and one vehicle for achieving this objective is the sponsorship of the Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC). Over the last five years TPCTC has been held successfully in conjunction with VLDB.
Performance Coaching: A Complete Guide to Best Practice Coaching and Training
by Carol WilsonPerformance Coaching is a complete resource for improving organizational and employee performance through coaching. Full of tips, tools and checklists, it covers all the fundamental elements of the coaching process, from developing the skills needed to coach effectively, to coaching in leadership, cross-cultural coaching and measuring return on investment. It also explores the key techniques and models in the field, from 360-degree feedback to Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), to allow readers to identify which approach is most suited to specific situations. Featuring case studies from organizations including Virgin, Johnson & Johnson and IKEA showing how effective coaching approaches have been applied in practice, this book is for coaches of all levels of experience, as well as HR managers and leaders looking to embed a coaching culture in their organizations.This revised third edition of Performance Coaching has been updated to include the latest insights and developments and contains new chapters on distance coach training and peer leadership in the workplace and new material on neuroscience in coaching, coaching in education, managing difficult conversations and stakeholder mapping.
Performance Coaching
by Carol WilsonEffective performance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges, and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development and helps create a work-life balance. Written as an introduction for those thinking of becoming or hiring a coach – personal or corporate – and a reference guide for experienced coaches, Performance Coaching offers a guide to the fundamentals of coaching by illustrating how to develop a best practice approach Using practical tools throughout the text and international case studies to demonstrate the various cultural challenges, Performance Coaching is a complete resource for developing coaching in any organization. The new edition is completely updated to offer a greater focus on building a coaching culture in organizations and on the challenges that leaders face in understanding and developing a coaching approach.
Performance Coaching for Complex Projects: Influencing Behaviour and Enabling Change (Advances in Project Management)
by Tony LlewellynPerformance Coaching for Complex Projects recognises a world of complex undertakings for which the common transactional mindsets and methodologies will not produce the required results. The author advocates, instead, the novel concept that the project manager or team leader should coach the team as part of their role. Managing complexity requires greater use of influence and less reliance on coercion. Learning how to recognise the clues that reveal personal preferences, character traits and motivations will allow you to communicate in a way that recognises how different team members see the world. Team coaching helps the project team work together to think through their issues and then collectively implement the solution. Tony Llewellyn has structured his book in two parts. Part I looks at the challenges of complexity and makes the case for a shift from a transactional directive mindset to a transformational coaching philosophy. Part II introduces a model of project team coaching including the processes and methodologies that have been shown to be effective in improving team performance. Complex projects are invariably messy, not least because of the human factors associated with them. Performance Coaching for Complex Projects is essential reading for anyone responsible for managing in uncertain, challenging and changing environments.
Performance Coaching For Dummies
by Averil Leimon Gladeana McmahonPerformance coaching is a modern and rapidly growing method used to assist development, and involves helping individuals to improve their performance in all areas of their life, with a particular emphasis on the workplace. Performance coaching draws parallels with NLP and often focuses on the psychology of excellence - making what's good even better, and helping individuals keep ahead of the game. On an organisational level it can include helping managers to consider how to get the best from their staff, peers and superiors, as well as helping to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. A performance coach assists individuals in building on their successes and helps to design, plan and instigate successful business/life strategies.Despite its popularity confusion still surrounds coaching. It is a relatively new area and there is still a lack of understanding about how best to use coaching and in what specific situations it will be most effective. In addition to this, anyone can assume a performance/professional/business/life coach title without holding any particular qualification or registration. With this increased awareness and confusion the need for a no-nonsense book on the topic that offers trusted advice is needed all the more, which is where Performance Coaching For Dummies steps in.
The Performance Consultant's Fieldbook: Tools and Techniques for Improving Organizations and People
by Judith HaleThe Performance Consultant's Fieldbook will help trainers, training managers, and internal and external consultants working in partnership with clients to identify barriers to performance, explore a suite of solutions, and work collaboratively to get new procedures, technology, behaviors, and ideas adopted. Step-by-step, the book details the techniques you need to conduct performance interventions and offers a customizable collection of worksheets, flowcharts, planning guides, and job aids. It provides practical guidance and proven tools to help analyze an organizational environment, diagnose performance problems, identify barriers to performance, select appropriate interventions, and measure intervention success.
Performance Consulting: A Practical Guide for HR and Learning Professionals (2nd edition)
by Dana Gaines Robinson James C. RobinsonThis work helps readers master the science and art of performance consulting, looking at analytical and assessment techniques as well as consultative and partnering practices. This second edition covers dozens of new tools and techniques, with numerous templates, checklists, and graphics available on the publisher's web site. There is a new chapter on how to proactively identify performance consulting opportunities. Another new chapter answers questions the authors have been asked frequently in the years since the first edition was published. Exercises, key points, and a glossary are included, along with real-life examples of people who have put the techniques described in the book into practice. The readership for the book includes professionals in training, human resources, and organizational development. The authors are consultants. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Performance Consulting: A Strategic Process to Improve, Measure, and Sustain Organizational Results
by Dana Gaines Robinson James C. Robinson Jack J. Phillips Patricia Pulliam PhillipsNEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDIn America, organizations spend $175 billion in training initiatives and more than $500 billion in human resource solutions every year yet often have little to show for it. One reason is that people "jump to solutions" before they identify the causes of the problem. Performance consultants are effective because they partner with clients to clarify business goals and determine root causes for gaps between desired and current results. Only then are specific solutions agreed upon and implemented. This third edition of the classic book that introduced performance consulting adds a wealth of new material. There are new case examples throughout and four new chapters providing detailed steps for measuring results from performance consulting initiatives on five different levels, including ROI. The book includes a never-before-published Alignment and Measurement Model, allowing you to connect organizational needs and performance consulting initiatives designed to address those needs with the appropriate level of measurement. This remains a profoundly practical book, featuring tools, models, and checklists. It will enable you to make a difference in your organization that is valued, measurable, and sustainable.
Performance Consulting
by William J. RothwellImproving individual and organizational performance is imperative to establishing and maintaining a high performance workplace, developing intellectual capital, promoting productivity, and enhancing profitability. Organizations must be flexible and agile in approaching business strategies. Against this backdrop, the time has come to revisit the role of training, HRD, and instructional design in today's organizations. Performance Consulting: Applying Performance Improvement in Human Resource Development is a leading-edge text that maps to existing curricula and syllabi, as well as real-world workplace learning and performance workflow, covering HRD, systemic and strategic approaches to organizational learning and performance improvement, roles, competencies, instructional design, performance analysis and evaluation, and implementation.
Performance Dashboards
by Eckerson Wayne W.Tips, techniques, and trends on harnessing dashboard technology to optimize business performance In Performance Dashboards, Second Edition, author Wayne Eckerson explains what dashboards are, where they can be used, and why they are important to measuring and managing performance. As Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute, a worldwide association of business intelligence professionals, Eckerson interviewed dozens of organizations that have built various types of performance dashboards in different industries and lines of business. Their practical insights explore how you can effectively turbo-charge performance-management initiatives with dashboard technology. Includes all-new case studies, industry research, news chapters on "Architecting Performance Dashboards" and "Launching and Managing the Project" and updated information on designing KPIs, designing dashboard displays, integrating dashboards, and types of dashboards. Provides a solid foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management Addresses the next generation of performance dashboards, such as Mashboards and Visual Discovery tools, and including new techniques for designing dashboards and developing key performance indicators Offers guidance on how to incorporate predictive analytics, what-if modeling, collaboration, and advanced visualization techniques This updated book, which is 75% rewritten, provides a foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management to optimize performance and accelerate results.
Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation
by Jack AlexanderNo matter what industry your company competes in, you need to have a firm understanding of how to create a direct link between shareholder value and critical business processes in order to improve performance and achieve long-term value. Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation contains the information and expertise you need to do just this-and much more.
Performance Driven Thinking: A Challenging Journey That Will Encourage You to Embrace the Greatest Performance of Your Life
by David L. Hancock Bobby KipperA turbocharged handbook to reaching your fullest potential professionally and then maintaining it for the rest of your life. Did you know you were born to perform beyond your wildest expectations? Performance Driven Thinking will serve as your personal coach to a life of personal and professional prosperity. This journey will take you to a feeling of embracing life in the winner&’s circle. It will assist you in overcoming the simple challenges of everyday issues to existing at a level which will benefit those who choose to take it. The key to this journey will begin when you discover the desire to perform and will end up with you embracing the will to perform. Non-performance in your life is no longer an option. Your stage is set. You have had a lifetime to prepare. Performance Driven Thinking will be your ticket to your personal and professional performance of a lifetime. What&’s stopping you? You were born to perform.
Performance Drivers in the Australian Banking and Financial Industry (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
by Ami-Lee Kelly Ashish Malik Philip J. Rosenberger IIITalent management is a way banks acquire competitive advantage. Practices such as personality profiling with effective knowledge-based productivity and the application of high-performance work systems help to set a company apart from its competition and maintain this competitive advantage. This book provides an in-depth look at the relationship between personality types and individual-level performance in knowledge-based environments, through cases in Australia’s banking and finance sector. This book also examines how high-performance workplace systems influence individual performance in relation to productivity through a multi-level analysis of micro- and meso-level factors. The findings in this book have relevant implications not only for the Australian system but also for other banking and financial service contexts outside of Australia.
Performance, Dynamik und Konvergenz im Banking: Institutionenökonomische Analyse der Entscheidungsstrukturen in Sparkassen
by Robert ConradIn der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe – mit 50 Mio. Kunden und über 300 Tsd. Beschäftigten eine der größten Bankengruppen der Welt – zeigen sich nach der internationalen Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise Ende der 2000er Jahre erhebliche Konzentrationseffekte. Die Zinsentwicklung, die zunehmenden regulatorischen und aufsichtsrechtlichen Anforderungen sowie eine Veränderung des Kundenverhaltens stellen das Geschäftsmodell der Sparkassen vor erhebliche Herausforderungen. Am Beispiel der westfälisch-lippischen Sparkassen werden die Veränderungen im Leistungserstellungsprozess der Institute für die Dekade nach der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise nachvollzogen. Gleichzeitig wird die Vertriebsstruktur der Sparkassen analysiert und geprüft, inwiefern sich die verschiedenen Cluster von Instituten hinsichtlich Performance und Dynamik in ihrer Entwicklung unterscheiden. Diesbezüglich wird untersucht, ob die Anpassungsprozesse mit einer zunehmenden Konvergenz in der Entwicklung einhergehen. Die Analysen zahlen dabei stets auf die Kernfrage ein, welche Folgen sich aus der Entwicklung für die dezentral ausgerichteten Entscheidungsstrukturen der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe ergeben.
Performance Evaluation and Army Recruiting
by James N. Dertouzos Steven GarberTraditional performance metrics, such as number of contracts signed per month per Army recruiter, do not adequately measure recruiter effort, skill, and productivity. The authors develop a "preferred performance metric" that takes into account the difficulty of recruiting different types of youth in various markets and propose short-term changes to the system that would more accurately assess recruiter effort and skill.
Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: Traditional to Big Data to Internet of Things
by Meikel Poess Raghunath NambiarThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 7th TPC Technology Conference on PerformanceEvaluation and Benchmarking, TPSTC 2015, held in conjunction with the 40thInternational Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2015) in Kohala Coast,Hawaii, USA, in August/September 2015. The 8 papers presented together with 1 keynote,and 1 vision paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. Many buyers use TPC benchmark results as points of comparison when purchasingnew computing systems. The information technology landscape is evolving at arapid pace, challenging industry experts and researchers to develop innovativetechniques for evaluation, measurement and characterization of complex systems. The TPC remains committed to developing new benchmark standards to keep pace,and one vehicle for achieving this objective is the sponsorship of theTechnology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC).
Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: 13th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13169)
by Meikel Poess Raghunath NambiarThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2021, held in August 2021. The 9 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The TPC encourages researchers and industry experts to present and debate novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization.
Performance Evaluation of Financial Holding Companies
by Xiao NingThis book attempts to illustrate the case of performance evaluation of Chinese financial holding companies. The question motivating the book is: with the deepening of reforms such as interest rate liberalization, the profitability of some traditional commercial banks has declined. In this context, how to maintain continuous improvement in operating performance of traditional commercial banks to resist the profitability declines. This book selects 13 Chinese financial holding companies as the research objects. With the authentic and reliable data, the author uses factor analysis method to conduct an empirical study on their performance evaluation and case analysis on three typical companies. Based on the research on the performance evaluation of financial holding companies, the evaluation methods are discussed and suggestions for improvement are provided.
Performance Evaluation of Industrial Systems: Discrete Event Simulation in Using Excel/VBA, Second Edition
by David Elizandro Hamdy TahaBasic approaches to discrete simulation have been process simulation languages (e.g., GPSS) and event-scheduling type (e.g., SIMSCRIPT). The trade-offs are that event-scheduling languages offer more modeling flexibility and process-oriented languages are more intuitive to the user. With these considerations in mind, authors David Elizandro and Hamd
Performance Excellence in Marketing, Sales and Pricing: Leveraging Change, Lean and Innovation Management (Management for Professionals)
by Marc HelmoldThe increasing interconnection and the unlimited exchange of data and information has led to a maximized transparency of globally offered and sold products and services. The desires, needs and wants of the consumer are the critical issues today in creating new or offering existing products and services. This book outlines successful marketing and sales strategies with a clear focus on practical relevance. It provides a systematic overview and description of selling, pricing and negotiation concepts which enable the reader to apply the best-case scenario in their company. Tools such as the marketing mix or marketing strategies are well explained for practical application in industry. The book also integrates elements of change, lean and innovation management as drivers for performance excellence. Featuring industry case studies, this book is a practical guide for marketing professionals, academics and policy makers to enable enterprises to achieve long-term competitive advantages through best-in-class marketing, sales and pricing activities.
Performance Funding for Higher Education
by Kevin J. Dougherty Sosanya M. Jones Hana Lahr Rebecca S. Natow Lara Pheatt Vikash ReddyA rigorous analysis of the impact—and implications—of performance funding for higher education.Seeking greater accountability in higher education, many states have adopted performance funding, tying state financial support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance based on specific outcomes such as student retention, progression, and graduation. Now in place in over thirty states, performance funding for higher education has been endorsed by the US Department of Education and major funders like the Gates and Lumina foundations. Focusing on three states that are regarded as leaders in the movement—Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee—Performance Funding for Higher Education presents the findings of a three-year research study on its implementation and impacts. Written by leading authorities and drawing on extensive interviews with government officials and college and university staff members, this book describes the policy instruments states use to implement performance funding; explores the organizational processes colleges rely on to determine how to respond to performance funding; analyzes the influence of performance funding on institutional policies and programs; reviews the impacts of performance funding on student outcomes; examines the obstacles institutions encounter in responding to performance funding demands; investigates the unintended impacts of performance funding. The authors conclude that, while performance funding clearly grabs the attention of colleges and leads them to change their policies and practices, it also encounters major obstacles and has unintended impacts. Colleges subject to performance funding are hindered in posting good results by inappropriate performance measures, insufficient organizational infrastructure, and the commitment to enroll many students who are poorly prepared or not interested in degrees. These obstacles help explain why multivariate statistical studies have failed to date to find a significant impact of performance funding on student outcomes, and why colleges are tempted to resort to weakening academic quality and restricting the admission of less-prepared and less-advantaged students in order to improve their apparent performance. These findings have wide-ranging implications for policy and research. Ultimately, the authors recommend that states create new ways of helping colleges with many at-risk students, define performance indicators and measures better tailored to institutional missions, and improve the capacity of colleges to engage in organizational learning.
Performance Hubs: Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement
by Marc RobertsA must-read for all managers, leaders, and change agents, Performance Hubs: Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement supplies a proven system for engagement that allows teams to use their own data, understand the need for performance improvement, and drive improvements at their own level