Comparative Study On British And American Government Performance Management

Under the background of “new public management movement”,Western governments began to learn the successful management experience from excellent enterprises and implement performance management in order to overcome the disadvantages brought by the traditional management mode.The reform is to introduce competition and efficiency consciousness in government departments,create a high performance organization, improve the quality of government services.Britain and the America conducted administrative system reform earlier than others,which have wide influences. The integrity of their reform measures,the thoroughness of their reform intensity,continuity of the reform process get widely recognized around the world.At the same time,Britain and America are the countries who carry out unified government performance management system and evaluation system on a nationwide scale.Government performance management is a new method that government departments absorb the experience and practice of enterprise performance management actively, introduce market competition mechanism,emphasize on customer orientation and improve the quality of public service.Both Britain and America carried out the performance management reform in the “new public management movement”, respectively.The two countries have similarities and differences in the practice of performance management reform.Similarities include:have the characteristics of periodic and continuity, step by step in the process of practice,put emphasis on comprehensive integration of influence factors,sign "performance agreements" and pay attention to supervision to ensure government’s high performance.Differences include:different stages focus on different aspects,implementation features and ways of improving performance are different.Then come to conclude the successful experience and defects of government performance management of the two countries.The successful experience conclude:promote the form of government market mechanism,promote the transformation of the government function,improve relations between the government and the public,establish a government official behavior restriction mechanism, establish a “result oriented”management mode.The defects include:face with the restriction of political system,the impede of government workers“self-interest”behaviors,government performance evaluation has problems by itself,performance reform model is flawed.The practices of two countries have an important value and enlightenment for present government performance management reform of our country.firstly,Further innovating concepts of government performance management.Secondly,Perfect incentive mechanism.thirdly,build open performance management environment.fourthly,build long-term mechanism of government performance management.Finally,Innovate the ways of government effectiveness construction.