Title: The Development and Implementation of an Operational Planning System
Abstract: The management problems of government enterprises are often obscured by a concern with budgets, budget planning, and the allocation of fiscal resources. Those are important concerns, but they must be linked and related to the planned allocation of time and talent. The New Jersey State Department of Education has designed an operational planning system that incorporates some of the features of both program budgeting and management by objectives (MBO). The primary focus of this system is planning and monitoring through a structure of “program centers. ”Through this system we have initiated an effort to link fiscal accountability to the planned activities and objectives of the professional staff. The process allows for the more precise identification of governmental “product” and provides for some control over productivity through attention focused on objectives and activities at a middle management level.
Publication Year: 1981
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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