Performance measurement can promote both accountability and improved performance but schemes that are geared for one purpose may not be ideal for promoting the other. This paper suggests that performance measurement can involve the siphoning of resources from “production” to overhead (under noble pretenses) and that this may not foster greater value for money.
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Arie Halachmi (2002) studied this question.
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