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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Application of Performance-Based Management: A Case of Nepalese Civil Service Reform

Author : Bharat Raj Gautam

Published in: In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

Performance-based management (PBM) has been one of the popular reform agendas from 1990 onwards in the Nepalese civil service. The main thrust of the application of PBM is to link financial incentives with the employees’ performance in an organization.

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Footnotes
1
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
 
2
In Lamjung, District Hospital was handed over jointly to a local NGO and District Development Committee in lease contract in 2001. However, performance indicators were not clearly set in the contract document. In Dolakha, Ziri Hospital has been handed over in the contract to a local NGO since 2006 and performance indicators have been set in the lease contract. In Achham District, Bayalpata Hospital was handed over in the lease contract to a local NGO in 2007 and performance indicators and targets for the health care services were also set in the contract document.
 
3
Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, and Ministry of Education.
 
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Metadata
Title
Application of Performance-Based Management: A Case of Nepalese Civil Service Reform
Author
Bharat Raj Gautam
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond

Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-7371-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-7372-5

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7372-5_7

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