... the performance management literature has not investigated what managerial means are used to connect performance dialogues and how these means can preserve, increase or decrease fragmentation. Performance management Participatory management Performance management systems Performance dialogue Performance...

... . The reports were analysed qualitatively under the following headings: “outcomes and payment structures”, “outcomes development”, “financial risks”, “performance management systems” and “evidence of success”, employing a deductive approach in which CT informed the analysis. Changes over time of PM regimes...

...Giorgio Giacomelli; Nora Annesi; Sara Barsanti; Massimo Battaglia Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the scholarship on public management models and to advance the theoretical conceptualization of the complexity of performance management systems (PMSs). The paper explores how...

...‐responsibility; the personnel does not understand the usefulness of the project and ignores or resists it/ overlapping projects hamper the measurement project because they take up resources. In addition to the significant number of studies on the challenges in performance management system...

..., increased internal bureaucracy, and decreased motivation and innovativeness. Hannu Rantanen can be contacted at: harri.kulmala@vtt.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Public sector organizations Performance measures Performance management systems Finland Target setting...