scholarly journals Perspective of Local Government on the Performance Assessment of District Sports and Leisure Centers

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin-Yi Fred Fang
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Performance Model ◽  
Project Finance ◽  
Quadrant Analysis ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Modified Delphi ◽  
Target Ratio ◽  
Four Quadrant

This paper addresses the problem of performance management of operate-transfer (OT) project finance for public sports and leisure centers (SLC) from the perspective of local government. This study contributes to use an evolutionary theory of competitive advantage and mixed-methods, including a modified Delphi method to develop the efficiency-based performance model (EPM) under OT project finance for the public SLCs. The total-factor framework disaggregating the efficiency into an innovative output surplus target ratio (OSTR) provides local governments with a contracted period to manage the SLCs through further specific improvement advice. This study further proposed the four-quadrant matrix formulated by long-term efficiency and short-term profitability to identify the benchmark and improvement directions. The empirical results indicated that there are fifteen SLCs located in the benchmark quadrant. This study provides policy makers in the local governments with a scientific reference to keep or drop the current operating private enterprise in the next concession period. The most underperforming SLCs could follow this proposed quadrant analysis and OSTR index, utilizing their internal resources to develop more attractive and reasonable-price exercise courses for participant growth.

scholarly journals Logic model evaluation and the analysis of job motivation for pre-paring the performance indicators of government institution: case of Klungkung, Bali

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Made Aristia Prayudi ◽  
Gusti Ayu Ketut Rencana Sari Dewi ◽  
Putu Riesty Masdiantini
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Technical Aspect ◽  
Logic Model ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Quadrant Analysis ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Four Quadrant

When compared to other districts in Bali Province, Klungkung has the lowest performance accountability score. The current study aims to evaluate the technical and psychological aspects of performance indicators development process of the local government. The technical aspect evaluation was done by implementing logic model analysis procedures and adopting a four-quadrant analysis approach. The  psychological aspect analysis was conducted by examining the motivational factors taken from the perspective of Institutional Theory for determining individual behavior in developing performance indicators in governmental organizations. The results show that there is a discrepancy in the number of performance indicators presented in the planning and performance reporting documents, as well as an absence of logical relationships among them. Psychologically, the quality of Klungkung’s performance indicators development is determined by the perception of the performance indicators matrix difficulty, the perceived usefulness of technical training, the level of top management commitment, the assertiveness enforcement of the regulations, and the existence of social pressure and pressure on professionalism. It can be implied that technical policies need to be formulated by local government organizations.  

scholarly journals Looking back, moving forward: Towards improving local governments' performance in Ghana

2013 ◽  
pp. 90-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza Bukari Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Performance Assessments ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Diagnostic Framework ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Organisational Level

This paper, based on a desk study, adopts a path-dependent perspective to explore how local government authorities in Ghana have attempted to institutionalise performance management at the organisational level. It questions the existing performance diagnostic framework that is used to assess local government authorities by arguing that any attempt to consolidate the prevailing ‘performance assessment regime’ ought to re-examine previous government initiatives that had in-built mechanisms for assessing local government performance. The prevailing system, despite its attempt to empower local authorities further promotes central government manipulation of local government administration. The paper concludes that performance assessment of local governments in Ghana will remain ineffective until local government councils genuinely serve local communities and their citizens by achieving goals and objectives that are consistent with the needs and aspirations of the latter rather than relying on annual performance assessments designed to ignore the opinions of citizens.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Akuntabilitas, Transparansi dan Fungsi Pemeriksaan Intern Terhadap Kinerja Pemerintah Daerah (Studi Empiris Di Kabupaten Sorong)

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanny Jitmau ◽  
Lintje Kalangi ◽  
Linda Lambey
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Test Reliability ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Validity And Reliability

Abstract. In order to achieve a good performance of local governments, it requires accountability, transparency and internal audit functions. If those factors are implemented well, the performance of the local government will be excellent and satisfied. To achieve them, the existences of mechanisms for accountability and good performance management are required. Implementation of the existing rule and legislation relating to the application of the concepts of accountability and transparency in financial management is expected to create a good local government management and beneficial to people. Implementation of accountability and transparency in the financial management area is expected to improve the performance of local government. On the other hand, internal control must be conducted by government auditors in order to increase local government performance. This study aims to examine the influence of accountability, transparency and internal audit functions to regional government performance in Sorong. This is a quantitative research and data were collected by using questionnaires. Samples were taken from 100 respondents. They were from 10 SKPD in Sorong regency government. The data was analyzed by Multiple Linear Regression. Validity and reliability were examined by validity test, reliability test, classic assumption test, and hypothesis testing. The data were processed by using Statical Software Product and Services Solution (SPSS) 20.0 version. The results show that accountability does not influence the performance of local government in Sorong. However, transparency influences the local government performance and internal audit influences the performance of local government.Keywords: Accountability, Transparency, Internal Audit Function and Performance of Regional Government.Abstrak. Dalam pencapaian kinerja pemerintah daerah yang baik maka diperlukan akuntabilitas, transparansi serta fungsi pemeriksaan intern yang baik pula agar kinerja pemerintah daerah memiliki kualitas yang baik dan memuaskan. Dengan demikian, untuk memantapkan mekanisme akuntabilitas, diperlukan manajemen kinerja yang baik. Penerapan berbagai aturan perundang-undangan yang ada terkait dengan penerapan konsep akuntabilitas dan transparansi dalam pengelolaan keuangan diharapkan dapat mewujudkan pengelolaan pemerintah daerah yang baik dan berpihak kepada rakyat. Implementasi akuntabilitas dan transparansi dalam pengelolaan keuangan daerah ini diharapkan mampu meningkatkan kinerja pemerintah daerah. Disisi lain untuk meningkatkan kinerja pemerintah daerah perlu adanya fungsi aparat pemeriksa fungsional melaksanakan fungsi pemeriksaan intern yang merupakan suatu fungsi penilaian yang independen dalam suatu organisasi untuk menguji dan mengevaluasi kegiatan organisasi yang dilakukan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh akuntabilitas, transparansi dan fungsi pemeriksaan intern terhadap kinerja pemerintah daerah (Studi Empiris pada Pemerintah daerah Kabupaten Sorong). Jenis data yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif dan pengumpulan data digunakan kuesioner. Dalam penelitian ini diambil sampel dari 100 responden yang terdapat pada 10 SKPD di pemerintah Kabupaten Sorong. Metode analisis data yang digunakan yaitu regresi linier berganda, dengan pengujian validitas data, uji reabilitas data, uji asumsi klasik, dan uji hipotesis. Data diolah dengan menggunakan perangkat Software Statical Product And Services Solution (SPSS) versi 20. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa akuntabilitas tidak berpengaruh terhadap kinerja pemerintah daerah Kabupaten Sorong, transparansi berpengaruh terhadap kinerja pemerintah daerah Kabupaten Sorong, fungsi pemeriksaan intern berpengaruh terhadap kinerja pemerintah daerah. Kata Kunci : Akuntabilitas, Transparansi, Fungsi Pemeriksaan Intern Dan Kinerja Pemerintah Daerah.

scholarly journals Performance management in Ghana’s local government: a case study of Ada East District Assembly

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justice Nuse Sosu
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
The South

This article examines performance management in Ghana’s local governments through a case study of the on-the-ground experiences of staff at Ada East District Assembly, in the south-east of the country. The study found that performance management is envisaged in the preparation of action plans. However, the evidence also showed that severe logistical constraints, poor capacity resulting from inadequate training and poor supervision remain key challenges. In practice it was shown that performance management may achieve its intended results when accompanied by continuous employee performance evaluation.

scholarly journals Municipal companies and city associations – Political economics in the local government in Israel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Galily ◽  
David Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Economics ◽  
Project Finance ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Municipal Services ◽  
Reciprocal Relations ◽  
Management Techniques

This study aims to present the municipal companies and city associations – political economics in the local government in Israel. The perception of the local governments has already changed, and they do not see their mission only as of the supply of municipal services according to law. The competitive environment in which they operate brings about an orientation of the improvement of the quality of life in the community, the extension and variety of the sources of employment, the development of infrastructures, and the improvement of the image. The main points in the article are: The Urban Development; Reciprocal Relations with the Private Sector; Project Finance; Taxation; Management Techniques; Diversification of Areas of Action of the Local Governments; and Association of Cities.

scholarly journals Analyzing local government financial performance: evidence from Brazilian municipalities 2005-2008

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 704-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Correa Gomes ◽  
Solange Alfinito ◽  
Pedro Henrique Melo Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
New Public ◽  
Upper Level

Municipality size has become an issue since the New Public Management doctrine of disaggregating structures into manageable units. In some countries, this doctrine led to the creation of small-scale agencies relying heavily upon transfers from upper-level governments. This paper aims to contribute to performance management literature by providing empirical evidence about some determinant factors that are likely to endow local governments with superior financial performance. Data came from a sample of Brazilian municipalities and refers to the period 2005-2008. The main conclusion of this investigation is that larger cities are more likely to manage revenue and expenditure better than are smaller cities, which aligns with the discussion of amalgamation versus fragmentation. This conclusion stems from the findings that in small municipalities mayors have fewer conditions to improve financial performance due to the difficulty of raising and collecting taxes and of reducing expenditures, which makes their administrations far more dependent upon external sources of money. Therefore, this dependent relationship can be seen as the cause of poor financial performance to the extent that it lowers mayoral discretion when making decisions. Another contribution this paper proposes to theory and practice relates to the fact that in the strong-mayor form of local government, mayoral qualification is likely to have little effect upon performance.

scholarly journals The relationship between organizational environment antecedents and performance management in local government: evidence from Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Abagsonema Abane ◽  
Edward Brenya
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe study aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational environment antecedents and their impact on performance management among local government authorities and to further understand the role of the stakeholder and political support in the performance monitoring and review of local governments. The study used quantitative research design techniques in the data collection phase between May and August 2017 in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The sample included 850 middle level and senior managers of the Local Government Service. Multiple regression was used to analyze the data. The results of the findings indicate that there is a strong relationship between two organizational environment variables: “stakeholder participation”, political support, and performance management providing a variance of 31.8 percent of the changes in the dependent variable. However, the findings further suggest that stakeholder participation was a better predictor of performance management than political support. Additionally, employees’ age, gender, and organizational size were statistically significant in the model fit. This study is one of the first of its kind to link two organizational environment indicators (stakeholder support and political support) and their effect on two performance management dimensions (performance monitoring and evaluation, and performance review). Also, few studies have used the structural contingency theory in explaining the influence of the environment on internal business processes of organizations in the performance management literature.

OPTIMALISASI PERAN PEMDA DALAM MENGATASI KENDALA PELAKSANAAN KONSERVASI KEANEKARAGAMAN HAYATI DI DAERAH (STUDI KASUS PROVINSI BENGKULU)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antung Deddy Radiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Conservation Policies

Gaps in biodiversity conservation management within the Conservation Area that are the responsibility of the central government and outside the Conservation Areas or as the Essential Ecosystems Area (EEA) which are the authority of the Regional Government, have caused various spatial conflicts between wildlife /wild plants and land management activities. Several obstacles faced by the Local Government to conduct its authority to manage (EEA), caused the number and area of EEA determined by the Local Government to be still low. At present only 703,000 ha are determined from the 67 million ha indicated by EEA. This study aims to overview biodiversity conservation policies by local governments and company perceptions in implementing conservation policies and formulate strategies for optimizing the role of Local Governments. From the results of this study, there has not been found any legal umbrella for the implementation of Law number 23/ 2014 related to the conservation of important ecosystems in the regions. This regulatory vacuum leaves the local government in a dilemma for continuing various conservation programs. By using a SWOT to the internal strategic environment and external stratetegic environment of the Environment and Forestry Service, Bengkulu Province , as well as using an analysis of company perceptions of the conservation policies regulatary , this study has been formulated a “survival strategy” through collaboration between the Central Government, Local Governments and the Private Sector to optimize the role of Local Government’s to establish EEA in the regions.Keywords: Management gaps, Essential Ecosystems Area (EEA), Conservation Areas, SWOT analysis and perception analysis

Entrepreneurship Management at the Local Government Level: The Experience of the Cities for Entrepreneurs Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 388-407
Author(s):  
Patricio Gigli ◽  
◽  
Donatela Orsi ◽  
Marisel Martín Aramburú ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
National Level ◽  
Development Issue ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Government Level

This paper aims at describing the experience of the Cities for Entrepreneurs Program (Ciudades para Emprender or CPE) of the National Directorate of Community and Human Capital (which belongs to the SEPYME), National Ministry of Production. This paper starts from the premise that entrepreneurship takes place at the most micro level of the offer and, therefore, is a concept associated with the characteristics of the environment closest to that offer: the local territory. However, there is little history in the country of public policies relating the issue of entrepreneurship with the local management. That is why we take as a starting point the conceptualization of the chosen framework: local governments and the development issue, seen from the perspective of entrepreneurships. Moreover, an overview is given on the structural characteristics of municipalities in Argentina. In addition, some international experiences and attempts to promote entrepreneurship at a national level are analyzed. Finally, the Cities for Entrepreneurs Program (CPE) is outlined, based on a summary of the diagnoses of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystems of the selected cities and the tools used and their execution status at the time of publication of this paper.

A Real Or a Marginal Trend in Participatory Budgets in Local Governments

e-Finanse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Beata Zofia Filipiak ◽  
Marek Dylewski
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Participatory Budget

AbstractThe purpose of the article is analysis of participatory budgets as a tool for shaping decisions of local communities on the use of public funds. The authors ask the question of whether the current practice of using the participatory budget is actually a growing trend in local government finances or, after the initial euphoria resulting from participation, society ceased to notice the real possibilities of influencing the directions of public expenditures as an opportunity to legislate public policies implemented. It is expected that the conducted research will allow us to evaluate the participatory budget and indicate whether this tool practically acts as a stimulus for changes in the scope of tasks under public policies. The authors analyzed and evaluated the announced competitions for projects as part of the procedure for elaborating participatory budgeting for selected LGUs. Then, they carried out an in-depth analysis of the data used to assess real social participation in the process of establishing social policies.

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