New Zealand Productivity Commission internship: social sector productivity

Authors

  • Danijela Tavich

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v13i4.4584

Keywords:

Productivity Commission, School of Government’s graduate pathway programme, productivity in the social sector, James Q. Wilson’s matrix of government tasks

Abstract

For my internship I prepared a short paper on social sector productivity for the Productivity Commission. The objective was to consider the implications of introducing productivity measurement in the social sector, given some of the complexities of observing outputs and outcomes for certain sector tasks. To do this I selected one typology, James Q. Wilson’s matrix of government tasks in Gregory (1995b), and attempted to apply this to a set of tasks within one organisation in the social sector, namely the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). The tasks were drawn from MSD’s annual report for 2015/16.

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Policy Quarterly volume 13 issue 4 2017

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2017-11-01

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Vol. 13 No. 4 (2017): Policy Quarterly

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