Decentralization Reforms in the Public Health Sector in Pakistan

Suhail, Aneeqa; Steen, Trui

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-96825-0_9

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“…Scholars referred to the problems of HRM practices and policies as critical problems, which generate problems in public organisations' performance (El‐Ghalayini, 2017; Suhail & Steen, 2018). It is evident that if the HR practices and policies are inadequate to ensure the best public servants stay, public organisations may experience challenges and gaps in HRM and, consequently, poor performance (Boon & Verhoest, 2018; Quansah, 2013).…”

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Performance management system in developing countries: A case study in Jordan

Mahmoud

Othman

2023

Journal of Public Affairs

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The performance management system (PMS) is critical to the success of any organisation, and this article investigates the PMS of the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) in Jordan, which is one of the largest public entities in the country. The article identifies various problems that are faced by GAM, such as HRM and staff, management behaviour, and performance management, which significantly affect GAM's performance. Additionally, the article discusses the process of goal and indicator setting and development of the PMS of GAM. The article adopts a phenomenological approach and a qualitative case study methodology to collect primary data from 15 purposeful semi‐structured interviews with GAM's experts. Thematic analysis is used as the data analysis technique to identify the PMS activities and address problems and difficulties in GAM's performance. The findings highlight eight major activities of GAM's PMS, which include performance sourcing, targeting, development, setting and responsibility, gauging, information, results, and alignment. These activities need to be managed properly if GAM wanted to meet its performance targets. Hence, the article presents a set of recommendations to improve GAM's PMS and overcome the identified difficulties, such as improving HRM practices and staff role, enhancing management behaviour, and establishing a performance management culture. Overall, the article provides valuable insights into the PMS of GAM and highlights the importance of an effective PMS to achieve organisational success.

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Performance management system in developing countries: A case study in Jordan

Mahmoud

Othman

2023

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…By 2010 the virus had been cornered into certain neighborhoods in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Lyari being one such. Infrastructural to these 'historic' ambitions of eradicating diseases are the usually unrecorded aspirations and hopes of young Lyariites who labor to distribute the vaccines (Suhail, 2020 ). In a time of violent turbulence and economic instability these workers' ability to forge an aspirational future for themselves and the city became key to an imaginative mode of working through and with contemporary arrangements.…”

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Movement 5. Sensing the Affective Lives of Arrangements

Cante¹,

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Makori³

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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This final movement explores whether thinking with re‐arrangements can help us account for that which is hidden, unseen or nested in the recesses and folds of urban practices. And if so, how we might then talk about and account for elusive parts of an arrangement that both exert an influence and are influenced. This essay uses sensibilities as an entry point into the intangible interactions between subjects and (re)arrangements.

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“…The idea is that granting a free hand to public units would strengthen central control of performance results by the top management (Pierre, 2000). More specifically, the governments enumerate on the services that would be delivered while the sub-units identify how these services would be delivered (Osborne & Gaebler, 1992), thereby giving HR the autonomy to deliver these public services efficiently within public organizations (Suhail & Steen, 2018).…”

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Effects of New Public Management Reforms on Human Resource Practices: A Case Study in Jordan

Mahmoud,

Othman

2023

Management and Labour Studies

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This paper aims to investigate the effects of new public management reforms on human resource practices of a public organization in Jordan, a Middle Eastern country in the developing world. The data was collected from fifteen purposeful semi-structured interviews in the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), one of Jordan’s biggest public organizations. The data was analyzed using thematic analysis (i.e., a coding technique). The findings revealed the challenges and gaps in Human Resource (HR) practices from gaps in implementing New Public Management (NPM) reforms which weakened the performance of the public organization. The discussion and conclusion are presented at the end.

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Decentralization Reforms in the Public Health Sector in Pakistan

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Performance management system in developing countries: A case study in Jordan

Performance management system in developing countries: A case study in Jordan

Movement 5. Sensing the Affective Lives of Arrangements

Effects of New Public Management Reforms on Human Resource Practices: A Case Study in Jordan

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