Context for Performance Management
Framework for PM: GPRA
Framework II: Leadership & Mgmt.; Tools
Program Evaluation & Performance Measurement
Potpourri
100
Within the Top 10 List, this is the #1 thing that employees are thinking when PM is introduced into an organization.
What is "outlast the agency director?"
100
The acronym for which “GPRA” stands.
What is the "Government Performance and Results Act?"
100
The grammatically tortured phrase used by Jim Collins to describe what leaders and managers need to do to get the right decisions to happen.
What is "architect the conditions?"
100
Between program evaluation and performance measurement, which one offers the best opportunity to serve as an early-warning system?
What is "performance measurement?"
100
This OMB Circular is where one can find specific implementation information regarding GPRA-MA and performance management in general.
What is "A-11?"
200
Of the two schools of PM, this is the one that is driven by a Theory X view of employees.
What is "gotcha?"
200
Name of the web site in which certain federal agencies are required to post data and other GPRA-related information.
What is "performance.gov?"
200
The 4th attribute of great leadership that is missing from this list: Rigorously assemble evidence; Apply rigorous logic and questioning; Execute in a disciplined manner.
What is "piercing clarity of mission?"
200
Between program evaluation and performance measurement, this is the approach most likely to be performed by individuals who work outside of the organization.
What is "program evaluation?"
200
This type of “capital” is what David Hunter recommends all organizations invest in.
What is "growth capital?"
300
This pachyderm-related phrase is often used as a metaphor for an instance in which an organization doesn’t openly acknowledge a big issue that almost everyone knows exists within that organization.
What is "the elephant in the room?"
300
Number of agencies required to post data and other information on the federal gov’t’s performance web site....number also associated with Keifer Sutherland.
What is "24?"
300
Put together a generic term for "Nemo" and the second syllable of the last name of a singer named Leon and you'll have the name of this diagram used to align goals, objectives, programs and activities.
What is "fishbone?"
300
Between program evaluation and performance measurement, this approach is much more likely to use regressions and other more sophisticated forms of data analysis.
What is "program evaluation?"
300
This is the one-word, short-hand name for the one-page document that seeks to capture the essence of performance measurement and management.
What is "Nutshell?"
400
The name of the specific theory under which the following phrase is associated: “Under favorable conditions, employees will seek and accept responsibility.”
What is "Theory Y?"
400
Under GPRA-MA, the minimum frequency in which agencies are required to both conduct in-person agency performance reviews of Agency Priority Goals.
What is "quarterly?"
400
This is the category of leadership that Jim Collins uses to describe leaders that—among other things—have “a special blend of humility and will” and exhibit “legislative leadership.”
What is "Level 5?"
400
Of the four types of program evaluation, this type focuses primarily on the extent to which the program followed statutory and regulatory requirements.
What is "process/implementation evaluation?"
400
OMB Circular A-11 (Sec. 270) states: “Frequent data-driven performance reviews should reinforce the agency’s priorities and an agency culture of _________ ________ and improvement.”
What is "continuous learning?"
500
At the firm of Felcher & Sons, Mr. Tate held this position.
What is "office linebacker?"
500
Although subsequently addressed in the GPRA-MA, GAO found that the GPRA of 1993 established a solid foundation for planning, measurement and reporting, GAO found that GPRA (1993) did not lead to significant gains in the use of performance measurement for this.
What is "decision making?"
500
In which of Covey’s quadrants does organizational leadership and performance management belong?
What is "Quadrant II?"
500
Of the four types of program evaluation, this type focuses primarily on the issue of what whould have happened without the program.
What is "impact evaluation?"
500
“__________ eats Strategy for Breakfast.”
What is "culture?"
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