Strategic and Performance Management in Public Administration

If a strategy is a road map, strategic management is the successful implementation of this road map with appropriate methods and policies.

The word “strategy” comes from the Greek strategos, which means a general in command of an army.

“Strategic management” was used for the first time by Chandler in 1962.

Strategic management involves planning, vision and mission statement, values and principles, objectives, and goals.

Vision refers to the values that show what changes should be made in the mission of an organization to benefit from future opportunities and compete with other organizations.

Strategic goals refer to the rules that determine the road map of the organization, namely, where it wants to arrive. 

The strategic management process is the path the organization draws in order to achieve its goals.

For an organization to realize its goals and work effectively and efficiently, three stages should be implemented.

SWOT analysis enables internal and external environmental assessments to be carried out.

The most crucial contribution of strategic planning to Turkish Public Administration is that the “performance-based budgeting” technique. 

Strategic decisions are made and implemented by leaders who believe in the chosen strategy. 

The concept of strategic management has started its expansion into the public sector with the introduction of the new public enterprise. 

The strategic management process is a cyclical structure in which audits and evaluations are carried out to gauge an organization’s performance in achieving its goals. 

Performance is a quantitative and qualitative description of where an individual, a group or an enterprise that performs a job can get to in regards to the intended goal.

Performance management refers to an overall management process that includes performance evaluation. 

Economy: refers to achieving the goal while saving time and costs. 

Effectiveness measures the degree of achievement in terms of a goal.

Equity ensures equal and fair use of services. 

Quality is a step that ensures the effective and efficient use of resources, especially time, and the provision of services in accordance with the needs.

Corporate performance management is a type of performance management that aims to ensure and increase effectiveness and efficiency within the organization.