Managing and Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: An Integrated Approach, 2nd Edition

Preface

This is the second edition of Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, a sole-authored book published in 2003. Over the intervening ten years, the emphasis on performance management in government has grown tremendously, and in the eyes of both its champions and its critics, it is clear that public and nonprofit organizations are operating in an era of performance. Performance management systems, which set clear goals and objectives and use systematic performance information to manage more effectively in order to achieve them, are ubiquitous in government at all levels in the United States and many other countries, and the adoption of such systems has proliferated rapidly in the nonprofit sector as well.

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