James Cutt, Vic Murray

Accountability and Effectiveness Evaluation in Nonprofit Organizations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides new perspectives on assessing the performance of nonprofit organizations whilst meeting the information needs of decision-makers, both internal and external.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780415213394
• ISBN-10: 0415213398
• Artikelnr.: 21759927

Autorenporträt

James Cutt is Professor of Public Administration and Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has taught at various universities around the world and held the Foundation Chair in Administrative Studies at the Australian National University. His previous publications include Public and Non-Profit Budgeting: the evolution and application of zero-base budgeting, Comprehensive Auditing: theory and practice and Public Purse, Public Purpose: autonomy and accountability in the groves of academe. Vic Murray is Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is active in teaching, research and consulting on the problems of effectively managing non-profit organizations of all types.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1. Accountability: the Foundation of Performance Measurement,
Evaluation and Reporting2. Generating Information to Serve Accountability
Relationships: Evaluation Methods and Processes3. Recent Research on
Accountability Relationships and Evaluation: What Really Goes On?4. The Use
of Information in the Accountability Relationship: Further Evidence of
Human Problems in the Evaluation Process5. Taking the Next Step: Developing
General Standards of Performance Reporting for Non-Profit Organizations6.
Grappling with the Dilemmas of Evaluation: A Review of Existing Evaluation
Tools for Non-Profit Organizations7. From Concepts to Practice: Improving
Cost Information for Decision Making in Non-Profit Organizations8. Case
Studies in Performance Management 1: Capital Mental Health Association9.
Case Studies in Performance Management 2: The Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria10. Making Sense of Multiple Measures of Performance: an Assessment
of the CCAF/FCVI Approach to Annual Performance Reporting11. Performance
Measurement in Non-Profit Organizations: a Note on Integration and Focus
within Comprehensiveness12. The Value Sieve: Accountable Choices Among
Incommensurable Programs Christopher Corbett Summary and Conclusions