Standardized Performance Measures: What’s Left Out?

Barrett & Greene

It’s important that standardized performance measurements are used to ensure that data is compiled consistently across multiple entities. Without standardization, it would be impossible to compare the results gathered in one organization to another. Here’s an example shared by Dr. Marva Mack at a recent conference

Performance Rewards and Job Satisfaction

Public Administration

Do the same management practices lead to greater job satisfaction in poorer and richer countries? Despite the centrality of this question, prior research has not statistically assessed it through multi-country studies. We address this omission for one quintessential OECD country management reform: linking rewards-pay and promotion-to performance. The authors argue that performance rewards matter more for job satisfaction in richer than in poorer countries.

Performance Management for Federal Employees

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

This memo describes how OPM is reforming employee performance management across the Federal government to ensure that it “shall reward individual initiative, skills, performance and hard work.” This includes ending inflation of employee performance ratings and the use of bonuses to reward high performance. The OPM memo implements two presidential executive orders.

Improving Performance Should be Win-Win

Careers in Government (op-ed – Howard Risher)

“In far too many government agencies work management practices have seen minimal change in decades. Where that’s true, managers and employees have established working relationships and are resistant to change. Their resistance could lock them into the past. They need to understand switching to pay for performance can be a win-win, for them and for the public.”

Data Analysis and AI (Podcast)

Bloomberg’s “Engaging Local Government Leaders”

Podcast guest Rochelle Haynes (Managing Director for What Works Cities Certification at Results for America) and Carrie Bishop (Data Initiative Lead for the Government Innovation Program at Bloomberg Philanthropies) share examples of local government problems solved through data analysis, what can hold cities back in their data journey, and use cases for artificial intelligence in local government.

Building Anticipatory Capacity with Strategic Foresight

Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development

This report provides lessons from Lithuania, Italy, and Malta in how they embrace forward-thinking approaches to build resilience and adapt to an increasingly uncertain world. 

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