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Performance Auditing And Performance Improvement In Government: Public Sector Management Reform, Changing Accountabilities And The Role Of Performance Audit, John Glynn
John J Glynn
Public expenditure crises of the 1970s and 1980s led many governments to: - firstly, enforce stricter financial climates that included the use of cash limits and cash planning to motivate public servants towards greater economy and efficiency; and - secondly, to introduce a series of other reforms that gave pre-eminence to what has become colloquially termed the “new public management” (NPM). Key to many of these reforms was the belief that NPM would lead to more publicly accountable management and that limited resources would not only be used more efficiently but also more effectively in terms of intended policy objectives. …
Human Resource Management Audit In Government, John Glynn, Andrew Gray, Michael Murphy, Sarah Vickerstaff
Human Resource Management Audit In Government, John Glynn, Andrew Gray, Michael Murphy, Sarah Vickerstaff
John J Glynn
In the spring of 1988 the authors were engaged by the National Audit Office to act as external advisers to its newly established human resources unit. The functions of the advisers during a ninemonth period were threefold: • to advise on an audit methodology suitable for examining manpower planning processes within the Civil Service; • to consider the audit evidence collected by the National Audit Office team from the Treasury and four line departments; • to comment on the drafting of this, the first, National Audit Office human resource management audit report. Under the terms of this engagement we shall …