“Open data will encourage civic involvement and increase the pace of innovation in the city.” These are the words of Mayor Parker, who strongly believes that a more transparent approach towards reporting public performance will support Houston’s development.
Trust in provincial, local and state governments has gradually decreased during the last decades in the United States of America. To address this issue, The USA National Performance Management Advisory Commission introduced, in 2010, a Framework for State and Local Government. With the help of this framework, State Governments will focus more on achieving results and providing quality public services to regain the citizens’ trust.
Employee satisfaction is an important component of business sustainability as it reflects in lower turnover rates, more commitment and higher individual performance.
For the report Performance Management in 2012, The KPI Institute conducted 12 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants, who offered rich insights into the state of Performance Management as a discipline.
Jodi Traversaro, Learning and Performance Management Manager at California Department of Personnel Administration, USA was one of the practitioners that The KPI Institute interviewed.
According to Fortune Magazine, Google is at present the number one best company to work for, and this is no surprise: the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, resembles a true recreational park. Employees have bikes to travel around the campus, free gyms, year round pools, healthy food courts andcolorful lounge areas.