The Government of Sierra Leone has felt the need for improvement and in order to do so, in 2008 it started implementing the Performance Contracts. In this context, all Governmental Institutions, Local Councils and Parastatals Tertiary Institutions have to monitor and evaluate their performance every year. To ensure the success of their own programs, they study Performance Management best practice examples from all around the world and adapt them to their own needs and situations.
According to the Gallup research study “State of the Global Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights for Business Leaders Worldwide” (2013), only 13% of the employees are engaged at work and focused on creating value for their organizations, while 63% are not engaged and 24% are actively disengaged.
Due to globalization and to the development of the World Wide Web, new markets have become available. In this situation, the brand has gained a significant value. The brand is represented by a logo, a slogan, the company’s overall image.
The desired result from branding is to project this image into the mind of a customer. When a client starts the purchase decision making process, the first things that should come into his mind are the organizational brand, the logo and the products.
Ensuring public safety is the ultimate goal of any police authority. This translates into actions that have to be taken towards the achievement of this goal. Scotland Police seems to have found the way of managing these actions. In 2007, they developed The Scottish Policing Performance Framework, which ensures a national model for the measurement and reporting of performance information.
The Welsh Government has approved legislation that requires local authorities in the country to “make arrangements to secure continuous improvement” regarding the services they provide to the community. This means that they must plan and forecast for attaining local and national set improvement objectives.
