Table Of Content“Berman and Hijal-Moghrabi draw on their extensive international experience
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sector practitioners.”
Andrew Podger, Australian National University,
Australia, former Public Service Commissioner
“This new third edition by Berman and Hijal-Moghrabi comes just in time when
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outcomes vis-à-vis crises and emergencies. It is a must-read volume with state-of-
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become more complicated and demanding with every passing day.”
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Policy, School of Political Science, University of Haifa, Israel
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knowledge base that Berman and Hijal-Moghrabi so clearly distill.”
Marc Holzer, National Center for Public Performance,
Suffolk University-Boston, USA
“The next decades will challenge our public sectors to combine service delivery
and crises governance. This will require performance and innovation. Berman and
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Geert Bouckaert, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, and
Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose (UC London)
“Berman and Hijal-Moghrabi have provided an extremely valuable overview of the
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John M. Bryson, McKnight Presidential Professor Emeritus,
University of Minnesota, USA
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“This masterpiece by Berman and Moghrabi describes various contemporary issues
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tor organization, as well as their experience in helping many public sectors to carry
out reforms, makes this book not only provide a development paradigm for public
sector performance and innovation, but also become a playbook for public sector
managers to create adaptive and agile organizations in facing VUCA Era.”
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Internal Audit Agency
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Performance and Innovation
in the Public Sector
Managing for results is increasingly important for the success of public
organizations. Performance and Innovation in the Public Sector is a comprehensive
textbook that examines a broad range of performance strategies.
Today’s public managers require a broad toolkit and a deep current
understanding of the following: performance management, digital government,
collaboration, strategic planning, innovation, lean government, and managing
people for performance. This book provides a thorough overview of broad
paradigms and their emergence, practical strategies along with examples and
up-to-date applications, and an appreciation for the diverse contexts of public
organizations, resulting in varied and tailored improvements. Each chapter assists
students in applying each tool at work. Performance and Innovation in the Public Sector
provides a balance of scholarship and practice, offers flexibility for instructors, and
is written in an accessible style that students and professionals appreciate.
This revised, much-anticipated third edition includes an increased emphasis
on improving governance and innovation, as well as up-to-date examples that
demonstrate best practices for performance in diverse public sector settings.
Evan Berman is a leading award-winning scholar in public administration with
research areas in public performance and management, leadership, compara-
tive public management, and HRM. He is past Chair of the Section on Public
Performance and Management of the American Society for Public Administration
(ASPA). He is the author of fifteen books, and he has received major awards
such as the Fred Riggs Award for Lifetime Career Achievement in International
and Comparative Public Administration, the Distinguished Research Award,
jointly awarded by ASPA and the Network of Public Schools for Politics, Affairs
and Administration (NASPAA) and the H. George Award Fredrickson Award
(ASPA). He is senior editor of Public Performance & Management Review and
Professor of Public Management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP),
Brazil’s leading private university. Evan has frequently published in the leading
journals of the field (e.g., Public Administration Review). He is also a visiting pro-
fessor at Fudan University (Shanghai) and the University of Indonesia (Jakarta).
He has also been a professor at Louisiana State University and the University of
Central Florida. Evan has worked and consulted for national and local govern-
ments in the U.S., Asia and New Zealand.
Imane Hijal-Moghrabi is Associate Professor of Public Administration at
the University of Texas Permian Basin (UTPB). Her research interests include
change management and innovation, performance management and budget-
ing, government ethics, and HR-related topics. Her work appears in Public
Performance & Management Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration,
Public Integrity, Administration & Society, Public Organization Review, Public
Administration Quarterly, and International Journal of Public Sector Management.
She received her Ph.D. from UT-Dallas and has served for about seven
years as a Financial Controller/Chief of Bureau at the Lebanese Ministry of
Finance.
Performance and Innovation
in the Public Sector
Managing for Results
Third edition
Evan M. Berman and
Imane Hijal-Moghrabi
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Names: Berman, Evan M., author. | Hijal-Moghrabi, Imane, author.
Title: Performance and innovation in the public sector : managing for
results / Evan M. Berman and Imane Hijal-Moghrabi.
Other titles: Productivity in public and nonprofit organizations
Identifiers: LCCN 2022030427 (print) | LCCN 2022030428 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781032303697 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032303666 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003304753 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Government productivity. | Administrative agencies--
Management. | Nonprofit organizations--Management.
Classification: LCC JF1525.P67 B47 2023 (print) | LCC JF1525.P67
(ebook) | DDC 352.3/75--dc23/eng/20220906
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022030427
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ISBN: 978-1-032-30369-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-30366-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-30475-3 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003304753
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For my wife, Dira.
For my husband, Karim
In memory of Jonathan P. West (1941–2022), mentor and friend
Contents
Preface xii
1 What Is Public Performance?: An Overview 1
1.1 Defining Performance 3
1.2 P ublic Performance in Context 6
1.3 T he Diffusion of Performance 8
1.4 I nnovation Redux 11
1.5 P erformance Improvement through the Present 14
In Conclusion 21
Application Exercises 22
2 Strategies and Conditions for Success 23
2.1 C onditions for Success 23
2.2 C hange in Team Units 30
2.3 O rganizational Change 34
2.4 W orking with Other Organizations 39
In Conclusion 41
Application Exercises 41
3 Performance Management: The Art of Design 43
3.1 B asics of Program Design: The Logic Model 45
3.2 E xamples: Applying Design in Practice 49
3.3 F rom Design to Performance Management 56
In Conclusion 60
Application Exercises 61
4 Digital Government 62
4.1 T he Evolution of Digital Government 64
4.2 T he Current Era: The Rise of Apps and Big Data 68
4.3 M anaging Digital Government 72
