Rodney Scott Unisex Multicolor Targeting Commitment : Interagency Performance In New Zealand

Rodney Scott

Targeting CommitmentInteragency Performance in New Zealand\nAuthor(s): Rodney Scott, Ross Boyd\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Brookings Institution\nISBN-13: 9780815739180, 978-0815739180\nSynopsis\nNew Zealand's deceptively simple but effective program to improve public services\nNew Zealand has long been considered at the forefront of public administration, experimenting with new ways of organizing and delivering public services. Even so, successive New Zealand governments had mixed results from using traditional public management tools to lift the performance of the public service and address persistent problems that required multi-agency action.\nIn 2012 the government decided to try something different. As part of a reform package called Better Public Services, the government challenged the public service to organize itself around achieving just ten results that had proven resistant to previous interventions. The plan was decept.