Performance Measurement Of UK Government And Its Enlightenment To Our Country

Performance measurement of government is one of new subjects of modern public administration research. it is the effective tool to strengthen the government management and improve the government performance, and is the key measures and the starting point of the modern administrative system.Since the 70's of 20 century, as the effective tool of government engineering, performance measurement is widespread applied in states practices of the administrative reform. The United Kingdom is the most notable countries of the performance measurement practice in the western countries. Its performance measurement has the longer duration and the most comprehensive features. Many countries imitate some of key measures, such as The Citizen's Charter. After our country entered WTO, the demands to the construability, transparency, service responsiveness of government behavior are more and more higher, so performance measurement are got more attention. In the past few years, local government in the practice of performance measurement has been achieved certain results, such as goal-representation of government, administrative efficacy, and social service commitment, but on the whole, there are some problems, like non-standardization of the measurement content and procedures, low reliability of the measurement results and the poor usage of the results. The writer fines the existing problems of current performance measurements and analysis the causes of these problems, in conjunction with the UK approach on the practice, to establishment a suitable trails for the development of Chinese government performance measurement.This article is divided into the following major sections: Part1: it introduce the significance of government performance measurement and the current situation of performance measurement in foreign countries and our country; Part 2: it introduce the meaning of government performance measurement and how to build a performance measurement; Part 3: it introduce the background of the UK government performance measurement and the measures in the practice. Part4: it introduce the current situation and the problems of the government performance measurement in our country. Part5: straightening out the idea to how to draw lessons from the practice of British government performance measurement, the writer raise methods to solve the existing problems on the practice of our government performance measurement through learning the successful experience from the UK.