David N Ammons
Biographic Data
| ID | 3456848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David N Ammons |
| GIVEN NAMES | David N |
| FAMILY NAME | Ammons |
| SIGNATURE | AMMONS D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1335-2625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Citizen-Assisted Performance Measurement? Reassessing Its Viability and Impact
Citizen-assisted performance measurement (CAPM) was a hot topic just a decade or so ago, promoted by enthusiasts as a useful coupling of the performance measurement and citizen participation movements. The idea of engaging citizens in the design of local government performance measures retains some ongoing support today based mostly on normative assumptions and testimonials. A careful review of the premises of CAPM and empirical evidence from CAP…
Benchmarking and Interorganizational Learning in Local Government
City Manager and City Administrator Role Similarities and Differences
The hiring of chief administrative officers, also known as city administrators, in municipalities with the mayor–council form of government has contributed to the professionalization of these city governments. Although some observers suggest that the role of city administrator is the functional equivalent of city manager, survey responses from 276 persons who have held both jobs note similarities and important differences
Factors Influencing the Use of Performance Data to Improve Municipal Services
Many local governments measure and report their performance, but the record of these governments in actually using performance measures to improve services is more modest. The authors of this study examine patterns of performance measurement use among a set of North Carolina cities and conclude that the types of measures on which officials rely, the willingness of officials to embrace comparison, and the degree to which measures are incorporated …
Performance‐Comparison Projects in Local Government
How do officials of participating local governments assess the value of their involvement in performance‐comparison projects, including related costs and benefits? In this article, three prominent projects involving city and county governments are examined from the perspective of the participants themselves, revealing gaps between high expectations and subsequent results, but nevertheless suggesting an array of benefits for participants
De burócratas a gerentes
Las lecturas que se compilan en este libro intentan hacer un aporte al desarrollo de la capacidad de gestión de las entidades públicas para conseguir sus objetivos, apoyándose en las ideas básicas provenientes de las ciencias de gestión, reagrupadas y readaptadas en el ámbito público bajo la denominación de New Public Management (NPM) o Nueva Gestión Pública. Esta publicación examina una amplia variedad de temas que va desde las aportaciones del …
A Proper Mentality for Benchmarking
The public sector has come a long way in measuring performance and managing for results, but there is much still to do. Delving even modestly into the history of public management yields the discovery that performance measurement and related management initiatives have been encouraged for many years. In that respect, it has been a long haul. The seemingly slow pace, however, should not blind us to the progress that has been made. Consider changes…
Overcoming the Inadequacies of Performance Measurement in Local Government
The key to meaningful advances in performance measurement in local may lie in meeting public interest challenge. In this case, challenge will be met not only by formulating measures that address public interest but, perhaps more critically, by reporting measures that capture public interest. Advocates of improved performance measurement in local have long emphasized importance of suitable performance yardsticks for municipal functions in lieu of …
Industrial Engineering
A survey of the members of the primary association of industrial engineers (IEs) confirms that relatively few IEs work in government, especially for state and local governments. Underutilization exists despite evidence that IEs can improve governmental productivity through a variety of analytic techniques. More wide-spread use of IEs in government would be encouraged by forging stronger interdisciplinary ties between public administration and ind…
Headhunters in Local Government
For decades many private corporations have turned to executive search firms for assistance in the selection of management employees. Use of headhunters by local governments is a much more recent phenomenon. Both pragmatic and philosophical objections long deterred reliance on executive search firms, but their use has now become widespread. Search firms relieve corporate boards of directors and their counterparts in local government, city councils…
Unapproved Imagemakers
Editorial cartoonists and editorial page editors at 169 major US. dailies have differing views on the objectives of editorial cartoons and the appropriateness of editorial independence for cartoonists. Differences – including demographics, the self-ascribed political orientations of cartoonists and editors, and the orientations they perceive in their colleagues and audiences – are examined as explanations for varying views of the purpose of edito…
Role Emphases of City Managers and Other Municipal Executives
How city managers spend their time, how they ought to spend their time, and how they prefer to spend their time have been issues of both controversy and curiosity in public administration.' That the discipline remains interested in such issues is not surprising since they emerge from the fundamental nature of councilmanager government and reflect the evolution of reform government in the United States.2 Only slightly less attention has been direc…
Performance Appraisal Practices for Upper Management in City Governments
lems and Prospects (Columbia: University of South Carolina, Bureau of Government Research and Service), pp. 260-274. 18. Frank Thompson, Minority Groups in Public Bureaucracies, Administration and Society, vol. 7 (August 1976), pp. 201-226. 19. David Rosenbloom, Declining Salience of Affirmative Action in Personnel Management, Review of Public Personnel Administration, vol. 4 (Summer 1984), pp. 31-40. 20. Meier and Nigro, op. cit. 21. David Garnh…
Peer Participation in Local Government Employee Appraisal
Despite the importance of employee performance appraisal and the generally low regard in which the process is held in local government, there has been little municipal experimentation with peer appraisal—a technique demonstrated elsewhere to be reliable and valid. In this paper previous research on peer rating is reviewed, common reasons for hesitancy in adoption enumerated, and the validity of some of the principal reasons for hesitancy examined…
Productivity Improvement in Local Government
Forbes, R. and E. Renshaw, of Present Developments and Needs for State Bond Banks, Finance Officers Special Bulletin (Chicago: Finance Officers Association, September 1, 1972). Hendershott, P. and D. Kidwell, Impact of Relative Security Supplies, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (August 1978), pp. 337-347. Hopewell, M. and G. Kaufman, to Municipalities of Selling Bonds by NIC, National Tax Journal (December 1974), pp. 532-554. Hopewell, M. an…
Professionalism and Local Government Administration
Benchmarking and Interorganizational Learning in Local Government
Performance‐Comparison Projects in Local Government
How do officials of participating local governments assess the value of their involvement in performance‐comparison projects, including related costs and benefits? In this article, three prominent projects involving city and county governments are examined from the perspective of the participants themselves, revealing gaps between high expectations and subsequent results, but nevertheless suggesting an array of benefits for participants
City Manager and City Administrator Role Similarities and Differences
The hiring of chief administrative officers, also known as city administrators, in municipalities with the mayor–council form of government has contributed to the professionalization of these city governments. Although some observers suggest that the role of city administrator is the functional equivalent of city manager, survey responses from 276 persons who have held both jobs note similarities and important differences
Headhunters in Local Government
For decades many private corporations have turned to executive search firms for assistance in the selection of management employees. Use of headhunters by local governments is a much more recent phenomenon. Both pragmatic and philosophical objections long deterred reliance on executive search firms, but their use has now become widespread. Search firms relieve corporate boards of directors and their counterparts in local government, city councils…
Unapproved Imagemakers
Editorial cartoonists and editorial page editors at 169 major US. dailies have differing views on the objectives of editorial cartoons and the appropriateness of editorial independence for cartoonists. Differences – including demographics, the self-ascribed political orientations of cartoonists and editors, and the orientations they perceive in their colleagues and audiences – are examined as explanations for varying views of the purpose of edito…
Citizen-Assisted Performance Measurement? Reassessing Its Viability and Impact
Citizen-assisted performance measurement (CAPM) was a hot topic just a decade or so ago, promoted by enthusiasts as a useful coupling of the performance measurement and citizen participation movements. The idea of engaging citizens in the design of local government performance measures retains some ongoing support today based mostly on normative assumptions and testimonials. A careful review of the premises of CAPM and empirical evidence from CAP…
Professionalism and Local Government Administration
Professionalism and Local Government Administration
Productivity Improvement in Local Government
Forbes, R. and E. Renshaw, of Present Developments and Needs for State Bond Banks, Finance Officers Special Bulletin (Chicago: Finance Officers Association, September 1, 1972). Hendershott, P. and D. Kidwell, Impact of Relative Security Supplies, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (August 1978), pp. 337-347. Hopewell, M. and G. Kaufman, to Municipalities of Selling Bonds by NIC, National Tax Journal (December 1974), pp. 532-554. Hopewell, M. an…
Peer Participation in Local Government Employee Appraisal
Despite the importance of employee performance appraisal and the generally low regard in which the process is held in local government, there has been little municipal experimentation with peer appraisal—a technique demonstrated elsewhere to be reliable and valid. In this paper previous research on peer rating is reviewed, common reasons for hesitancy in adoption enumerated, and the validity of some of the principal reasons for hesitancy examined…
Performance Appraisal Practices for Upper Management in City Governments
lems and Prospects (Columbia: University of South Carolina, Bureau of Government Research and Service), pp. 260-274. 18. Frank Thompson, Minority Groups in Public Bureaucracies, Administration and Society, vol. 7 (August 1976), pp. 201-226. 19. David Rosenbloom, Declining Salience of Affirmative Action in Personnel Management, Review of Public Personnel Administration, vol. 4 (Summer 1984), pp. 31-40. 20. Meier and Nigro, op. cit. 21. David Garnh…
Role Emphases of City Managers and Other Municipal Executives
How city managers spend their time, how they ought to spend their time, and how they prefer to spend their time have been issues of both controversy and curiosity in public administration.' That the discipline remains interested in such issues is not surprising since they emerge from the fundamental nature of councilmanager government and reflect the evolution of reform government in the United States.2 Only slightly less attention has been direc…
Headhunters in Local Government
For decades many private corporations have turned to executive search firms for assistance in the selection of management employees. Use of headhunters by local governments is a much more recent phenomenon. Both pragmatic and philosophical objections long deterred reliance on executive search firms, but their use has now become widespread. Search firms relieve corporate boards of directors and their counterparts in local government, city councils…
Unapproved Imagemakers
Editorial cartoonists and editorial page editors at 169 major US. dailies have differing views on the objectives of editorial cartoons and the appropriateness of editorial independence for cartoonists. Differences – including demographics, the self-ascribed political orientations of cartoonists and editors, and the orientations they perceive in their colleagues and audiences – are examined as explanations for varying views of the purpose of edito…
Industrial Engineering
A survey of the members of the primary association of industrial engineers (IEs) confirms that relatively few IEs work in government, especially for state and local governments. Underutilization exists despite evidence that IEs can improve governmental productivity through a variety of analytic techniques. More wide-spread use of IEs in government would be encouraged by forging stronger interdisciplinary ties between public administration and ind…
Overcoming the Inadequacies of Performance Measurement in Local Government
The key to meaningful advances in performance measurement in local may lie in meeting public interest challenge. In this case, challenge will be met not only by formulating measures that address public interest but, perhaps more critically, by reporting measures that capture public interest. Advocates of improved performance measurement in local have long emphasized importance of suitable performance yardsticks for municipal functions in lieu of …
De burócratas a gerentes
Las lecturas que se compilan en este libro intentan hacer un aporte al desarrollo de la capacidad de gestión de las entidades públicas para conseguir sus objetivos, apoyándose en las ideas básicas provenientes de las ciencias de gestión, reagrupadas y readaptadas en el ámbito público bajo la denominación de New Public Management (NPM) o Nueva Gestión Pública. Esta publicación examina una amplia variedad de temas que va desde las aportaciones del …
A Proper Mentality for Benchmarking
The public sector has come a long way in measuring performance and managing for results, but there is much still to do. Delving even modestly into the history of public management yields the discovery that performance measurement and related management initiatives have been encouraged for many years. In that respect, it has been a long haul. The seemingly slow pace, however, should not blind us to the progress that has been made. Consider changes…
Performance‐Comparison Projects in Local Government
How do officials of participating local governments assess the value of their involvement in performance‐comparison projects, including related costs and benefits? In this article, three prominent projects involving city and county governments are examined from the perspective of the participants themselves, revealing gaps between high expectations and subsequent results, but nevertheless suggesting an array of benefits for participants
City Manager and City Administrator Role Similarities and Differences
The hiring of chief administrative officers, also known as city administrators, in municipalities with the mayor–council form of government has contributed to the professionalization of these city governments. Although some observers suggest that the role of city administrator is the functional equivalent of city manager, survey responses from 276 persons who have held both jobs note similarities and important differences
Factors Influencing the Use of Performance Data to Improve Municipal Services
Many local governments measure and report their performance, but the record of these governments in actually using performance measures to improve services is more modest. The authors of this study examine patterns of performance measurement use among a set of North Carolina cities and conclude that the types of measures on which officials rely, the willingness of officials to embrace comparison, and the degree to which measures are incorporated …
Benchmarking and Interorganizational Learning in Local Government
Citizen-Assisted Performance Measurement? Reassessing Its Viability and Impact
Citizen-assisted performance measurement (CAPM) was a hot topic just a decade or so ago, promoted by enthusiasts as a useful coupling of the performance measurement and citizen participation movements. The idea of engaging citizens in the design of local government performance measures retains some ongoing support today based mostly on normative assumptions and testimonials. A careful review of the premises of CAPM and empirical evidence from CAP…
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