Klingner Ch 4 - HR Role in Policy, Budget, Performance Management, and Program Evaluation

Aspect of HRM that mediates between political environment and managerial implementation of public programs through core HRM activities such as workforce planning, job analysis, job classification, job evaluation, and compensation.

• Process by which all levels of government make and implement policies. Many use a six stage model:
• Initiation
• Estimation
• Selection
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Termination

Document that attempts to reconcile program priorities with projected revenues. Statement of organizational activities or objectives within a given time period.

the process of developing and using systems to ensure that funds are spent for the purposes for which they have been appropriated.

Process of ensuring that funds were actually spent for the given purpose and in the prescribed manner

Shift to focus on outcomes by performance measures. Regardless of whether an agency spent its money in accordance with the appropriations law, or whether the program achieved its predicted results, and if those results contributed toward solving the policy issue at hand, "Did you do something?"

A measure of productivity.

Includes efficiency (ratio of outputs to inputs) = [a numerical representation of a performance outcome] divided by [a numerical representation of an applied resource]

EX: Meals served for every hour cafeteria employees worked

A measure of productivity.

Concerned with the quality of the output measured against some standard.

EX: [number of arrests leading to convictions] divided by [police personnel costs]

Cost-benefit analysis - work on policy issues where the benefit is greater than the cost

Although the cost is greater than the benefit the political capital and value systems ensure action when not economically beneficial to do so.