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Utilization-focused performance reporting

Fritz Sager Centre of Competence for Public Management, University of Bern, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Adrian Ritz Centre of Competence for Public Management, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Kristina BussmannView further author information
Pages 55-62 | Published online: 10 Dec 2009
 
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Abstract

How best to define performance measures is a much-debated issue. Mismatches between goals and indicators can lead to distortions that undermine impact-oriented steering. This article presents a model of goal and indicator development and explains its applicability, benefits and limitations.

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Kristina Bussmann

Kristina Bussmann is a former research assistant at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, and now works as a real estate manager in Zug, Switzerland

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