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1st FEEDBACK

Hello Mer,

You did a good job writing up the narrative, but there are issues you will need to address before approval. First, the nature of a dissertation is that you will collect data, not just review literature. You can collect that data form primary or secondary sources, but secondary sources does not mean articles. It mean existing databases, such as government or public records. The work will have to be quantitative, not qualitative. The title is the mediating effect of performance management, but the description does not position performance management s a mediator. 

Go back and give this one a few adjustments and resubmit please.

2nd Dropbox Feedback

Hello Mer

You did a good job writing up the narrative, but there are still a couple of issues you will need to address before approval. As before, the nature of a dissertation is that you will collect data, not just review literature. When you speak of secondary data, you are speaking about locating research with the specific measures (answers to the surveys for each participant on a spread sheet) that contain all the specific variables you desire to measure. Then you must do your own statistical analysis (regression. PLS, etc) to test your hypotheses, not compare the findings of the analyses done by others. You can collect that data form primary or secondary sources, but secondary sources does not mean articles. It mean existing databases, such as government or public records. Are you sure such databases exist? If so cite a main on in the narrative. If not, you should rewrite that section for primary data collection.

Go back and give this one a few adjustments and resubmit please.

My Note:

1. The adjustments on: #4 What methodologies are mostly used in this area of research?

2. # 10. What kind of data do you plan to use for your dissertation? (about 50 words

Dr. Croer

My title: The mediating effect of performance management.

Please give the description to position performance management as mediator. 

Management Innovations (MI) are widely adopted, but their influences on organizational performance are little researched in public settings. Positing that the management innovation performance relationship is complicated and is conditional over other characteristics of the organization, I will examine the influence of MI on organizational performance (OP) both directly and indirectly through performance management (PM). To this end, a central reform strategy that will be to promote performance management also referred to as ‘‘managing for results’’ (Moynihan 2006) and ‘‘managing for outcomes’’ (Heinrich 2002). Performance Management will be associated with setting clear organizational goals, specifying targets and indicators to link goals to performance outcomes, and taking action to influence achievement against targets (Boyne 2010). To facilitate buy-in of missions and goals and to assist with meeting targets, PM regimes seek to empower middle managers to make decisions and take responsibility for their unit’s conduct and outcomes. Simultaneously, senior executives have been mandated to intervene, make corrective actions in a coordinated manner, and adapt strategy when necessary (Walker and Boyne 2006).Moynihan, Donald. 2006. Managing for results in state government: Evaluating a decade of reform. Public administration Review 66:77–89.

Heinrich, Carolyn. 2002. Outcomes-based performance management in the public sector: Implications for government accountability and effectiveness. Public Administration Review 62:712–25.

Boyne, George A. 2010. Performance management: Does it work? In Public management and performance: Research directions, eds. Richard M. Walker, George A. Boyne, and Gene A. Brewer. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Walker, Richard M., and George A. Boyne. 2006. Public management reform and organizational performance: An empirical assessment of the UK Labour government’s public service improvement strategy. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 25:371–94.

PM is an important organizational process characteristic arising from public management reform and in itself influences performance.

We test our hypotheses using structural equation models with data from three sources in English local governments. The findings indicate that the impact of MI on performance is not direct; it is mediated by PM. We also find that PM positively affects organizational performance. In conclusion

PM is an important organizational process characteristic arising from public management reform and in itself influences performance. 

At the heart of public management reforms have been attempts to deal with some of the major maladies of public organizations, such as goal ambiguity, red tape, low productivity, and bureaucratic imperialism (Rainey 2003; Wilson 1989). A central reform strategy has been to promote PM (OECD 2005; Pollitt and Bouckaert 2004) also referred to as ‘‘managing for results’’ (Moynihan 2006) and ‘‘managing for outcomes’’ (Heinrich 2002). PM is associated with setting clear organizational goals, specifying targets and indicators to link goals to performance outcomes, and taking action to influence achievement against targets (Boyne 2010; Jennings and Haist 2004; Rainey and Rhu 2004). To facilitate buy-in of missions and goals and to assist with meeting targets, PM regimes seek to empower middle managers to make decisions and take responsibility of their unit’s conduct and outcomes. Simultaneously, senior executives have been mandated to intervene, make corrective actions in a coordinated manner, and adapt strategy when necessary (OPSR 2002; Walker and Boyne 2006)

Many contemporary organizations are placing a greater emphasis on their performance management systems as a means of generating higher levels of job performance. We suggest that producing performance increments may be best achieved by orienting the performance management system to promote employee engagement. To this end, we describe a new approach to the performance management process that includes employee engagement and the key drivers of employee engagement at each stage. We present a model of engagement management that incorporates the main ideas of the paper and suggests a new perspective for thinking about how to foster and manage employee engagement to achieve high levels of job performance.