Research On Management By Objectives Of Kunming Municipal Government

It is an important, long-term, and difficult task to improve government effectiveness through administrative method renewal, which needs to be combined with an extensively used and compatible administrative tool. MBO is the best choice for its longtime, wide, well-recognized, and inclusive practice. However, MBO changed tremendously under different circumstances since it grew and bloomed in the West, won great popularity from private sector to public one, and turned to the East. Although the application of MBO in China is widespread, the criticism on it severely lagged. The case study of MBO in Kunming Municipal Government with the aid of MBO theory can reveal and evaluate the present situation of Kunming, explore the indicators influencing its effectiveness, and design the instructive readjustment plan. Such findings can be used as suggestions for Kunming and the alike local governments to realize the concern, response, and guidance of research to practice. Moreover, it is a probe into the generation and readjustment of MBO in local governments of today's China, adding up to the contents of research on MBO in governmentsThrough literature analysis, Delphi Method, questionnaire survey and in-depth interview, it can be drawn that MBO in Kunming Municipal Government has formed, expanded, and adapted to the situation, but it's still at its early stage of obviously classical mechanical characteristics with many negative an potential functions. Facing new demands from environment, it deed to stop its path dependency to innovate. There are16factors in three aspects influences the effectiveness of it. The aspects are subject structure and its function, procedure, and learning and training. The according designing of the constructive readjustment plan is to enlarge the administrative subjects and explore their positive and explicit functions, to improve the procedure to be participative and scientific, and to design learning and training program to improve the effectiveness. Through SWOT, It can be drawn that the readjustment plan is feasible, bearing the key points in the mind. They are the opportunity of the Party and the Central Government emphasizing the improving of administrative means, making the best use of the academic intelligence and the stakeholders enthusiasm to participate, and focus on the interaction between government and the public to cultivate the civil society during the course of readjustment. The conclusions are suitable for the other local governments, especially the other provincial capital government, whose situations are similar to Kunming and can be represented by it.