Public Sector Performance Management PG (12085.1)

The course discusses the structure and strategies of organisations that should align with each other to ensure effective strategy formulation, strategy implementation and evaluating performance of different divisions/organisational units against its' strategy. It also covers responsibility centres are the organisational units that are allocated resources and assessed with implementing organisational strategy. With specific focus on public sector performance management and measurement, the course covers aspects of performance management, performance measurement of public organisations including strategy implementations. Specifically, why individuals and organizations within public sectors must evaluate and assess performance; the identification, classification, and measurement of different approaches of performance measurement framework; the fundamental principles and frameworks for strategy development and implementation, as well as performance measurement tools will be discussed. The new approaches and techniques used in the public sector performance management process; and how these new techniques in performance measurements and management foster 3 Es (economy, efficiency & effectiveness) will also be covered.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Analyse the performance of responsibility centres, organisational performance, analyse individual and team performance, and prepare reports;
2. Discuss various approaches to the performance management and control of organisations;
3. Discuss various approaches to the performance measurement and management of organisations, in particular, for the public sector; and
4. Discuss various contemporary tools for performance of public sector organisations.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries

Prerequisites

6253 Management Accounting PG

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.