Strategic Leadership for Performance Management in the Mpumalanga Legislature
Date
2012-12-03
Authors
Mthunywa, Lidec
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Abstract
The purpose of the research is to examine the Mpumalanga Legislature’s
performance management for politicians and administrative support staff and the
extent to which purposive strategic imperatives can enhance such performance.
The lack of an appropriate performance management tool in the Legislature would
lead to citizens’ apathy towards government services since the Legislature would
be unable to demonstrate its interventions on the implementation of government
policies. The paper argues that keeping strategic leaders focused on the topic of
performance management can prove difficult and undermine their ability to
envision, anticipate and position for the future.
The stakeholder model of organisational leadership has been proposed as an
appropriate performance management model for the Legislature since it embraces
the collective sense of the leadership’s efficacy based on the perception of
multiple stakeholders. This is contrasted with the public service performance
management model which is used for service delivery purposes and is
inappropriate to be customized to the legislatures. The view of the study is that
strategic leaders who are socially complex have more developed and complex
knowledge structures regarding people and situations, and a greater understanding
of critical social organisational problems.
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MM thesis - P&DM
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Leadership, Performance management