Historically, there's been an unfortunate and unproductive divide between people who have the same goal of getting government to make more informed and data-driven decisions. On one side, there are ...

Outlining a performance appraisal program is the easy part of performance management. Putting it into practice takes much more time and effort; however, with a well-constructed outline that describes ...

The new Department of Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Program is about performance and results. Working in an organization where employees know what is expected, where there is a shared ...

The Bush administration was quite active in management reform. Its agenda included the President's Management Agenda (PMA), and the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), which was a ...

In a surprise pre-Christmas move the Trump administration issued new guidance directing federal agencies to omit performance information from the President’s Budget. To justify the change, the White ...

Medical movers and shakers convened in Los Angeles this week — more than 600 of them — to assess the first five years and chart the next five of the country’s largest health care pay for performance ...

Promising findings from pay-for-performance programs can provide a foundation on which states and districts can build programs and policy. A chemistry teacher in front of her classroom in Texas. Texas ...

In an attempt to shift incentives in the health care system from “volume” to “value,” private insurers, public payers, and purchasers have evaluated various models of payment reform. Of these models, ...