The impact of financial austerity in many countries and the need to set the direction for governments have radically changed several aspects of Public sector management (Rubin and Willoughby 2014; Anessi-Pessina et al. 2016). A central component of this effort to transform public management involves...

Performance target setting was introduced as a result of performance contracting which emanated from France in 1960’s. Escalation in environmental hurly-burly in the 1970’s, forced top managers to embrace performance target setting. Institution of performance target setting in Kenya lie...

Chapter 1 Affecting organizational behavior through performance measurement systems -- Chapter 2: Implementing performance measurement systems to hold public schools accountable for -- educational quality -- Chapter 3: Exploring the conceptual roots of outcome-oriented performance measurement...