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Performance Models: Enhancing Accountability in Academe
Public Productivity & Management Review is a refereed journal co-sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration's Section on Management Science and Policy Analysis and The National Center for Public Productivity, Rutgers University. It is published quarterly by SAGE Periodicals Press.
Public Productivity & Management Review invites manuscripts pertaining to the use of performance models in academe. Collaborative efforts across disciplines and between academics and practitioners are welcome. Contributions are solicited from the disciplinary perspectives of accounting, management, program evaluation, public evaluation, public administration, strategic management and other relevant areas.
Universities and academic accrediting bodies increasingly advocate rational, performance-based models for administering academe. Examples of these models include: continuous quality improvement, managing for results, performance-based management, service efforts and accomplishments, strategic planning and budgeting, and total quality management. Such models envision the linkage of organizational mission to measurable goals and the evaluation of performance by explicit means of assessment. Economy, efficiency and effectiveness are valued.
All manuscripts should relate to the application of performance models in academe. Potential areas of interest include: formal and informal motivations for the advocacy of models, examination of the conceptual strengths or weaknesses of models, investigations of the impact of models on the behavior of stakeholders, case studies which illustrate the success or failure of models, descriptions of innovative qualitative or quantitative means of assessing performance, empirical studies designed to evaluate characteristics such as the validity and reliability of indicators of performance, and other related topics.
Papers should focus on models oriented to the performance of the core academic activities of research, teaching and service as opposed to the performance of support functions such as housing, food service, maintenance and other non-academic activities. Additionally, manuscripts should extend beyond the mere advocacy of performance models in academe to critical consideration and examination of these models.
Inquiries about this feature topic and requests for Guidelines for Manuscript Submission should be submitted to Dr. Jean Harris, Penn State Harrisburg, 777 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057-4898; (717) 948-6157 voice mail; (717) 948-6456 fax; jeh6@psuvm.psu.edu email. Manuscripts for review must be postmarked by September 30, 1997. Publication of accepted manuscripts anticipated for Fall 1998.
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