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ItemLa experiencia australiana en las reformas del sector público(Centro de Estudios Públicos, 2018)El propósito de este artículo es entregar un resumen de las principales etapas de las reformas al sector público en Australia y rescatar lecciones de tal experiencia. El texto explora cuatro fases en mayor detalle: gerencialismo, mercantilización, gobernanza colaborativa y gobierno de alto rendimiento. Al movernos por estas cuatro fases se narra una historia de fracasos y éxitos relativos en el corto plazo. Sin embargo, al reflexionar sobre el largo plazo vemos que Australia ha sido una reformadora constante, siempre buscando modos de mejorar y mostrando una voluntad de experimentar con ideas nuevas o reciclar ideas viejas si es necesario. Las reformas en la experiencia australiana rara vez han sido repentinas o transformativas; más bien han sido graduales y pragmáticas. En general, han sido más exitosas aquellas que han contado con apoyo bipartidista, mientras que las de un solo partido han tendido a fallar. Agendas bipartidistas graduales y enfocadas en mejoras continuas, han permitido que Australia desarrolle su administración pública y que la modernice a través del tiempo.
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ItemManaging Expectations to Create High Performance Government(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2019-06)Enhanced performance has been the focus of public administration and management research for years. High performance organizations have characteristics that differentiate them from others; they also utilize high performance work practices (HPWPs). A core HPWP is performance management, which seeks to align individual performance with organizational outcomes. We posit that performance management can enable high performance through managing employee expectations. Drawing on a study undertaken in the Australian Public Service, we demonstrate how using an expectancy theory lens helps explain how performance management can support high performance. We suggest that all three elements of expectancy theory—valance, expectancy, and instrumentality—need to be in place to support the creation of goal and role clarity, critical components of high performance. This offers practitioners a way of structuring effective conversations and scholars the opportunity to consider the theoretical implications of linking expectancy theories, performance management, and high performance.
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ItemFrom Headline to Hard Grind: The Importance of Understanding Public Administration in Achieving Health Outcomes Comment on "Understanding the Role of Public Administration in Implementing Action on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities"(KERMAN UNIV MEDICAL SCIENCES, 2016-07)Many public policy programs fail to translate ambitious headlines to on-the-ground action. The reasons for this are many and varied, but for public administration and management scholars a large part of the gap between ambition and achievement is the challenge associated with the operation of the machinery of government itself, and how it relates to the other parties that it relies on to fulfill these outcomes. In their article, Carey and Friel set out key reasons why public health scholars should seek to better understand important ideas in public administration. In commenting on their contribution, I draw out two critical questions that are raised by this discussion: (i) what are boundaries and what forms do they take? and (ii) why work across boundaries? Expanding on these key questions extends the points made by Carey and Friel on the importance of understanding public administration and will better place public health scholars and practitioners to realise health outcomes.
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ItemPERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: CREATING HIGH PERFORMANCE, NOT HIGH ANXIETY(AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV, 2015)