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COURT PERFORMANCE Why and what to follow. Why Measure Performance?. Different Purposes - Different Measures Robert D. Behn Harvard University Public Administration Review • September/October 2003, Vol. 63, No. 5. Purposes I. Evaluate How well is my public agency performing? Control
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Why Measure Performance? Different Purposes - Different Measures Robert D. Behn Harvard University Public Administration Review • September/October 2003, Vol. 63, No. 5
Purposes I Evaluate • How well is my public agency performing? Control • How can I ensure that my subordinates are doing the right thing? Budget • On what programs, people, or projects should my agency spend the public's money? Motivate • How can I motivate line staff, middle managers, nonprofit and for-profit collaborators, stakeholders, and citizens to do the things necessary to improve performance?
Purposes II Promote • How can I convince political superiors, legislators, stakeholders, journalists, and citizens that my agency is doing a good job? Celebrate • What accomplishments are worthy of the important organizational ritual of celebrating success? Learn • Why is what working or not working? Improve • What exactly should who do differently to improve performance?
Characteristics of Performance Measures – Needs I Evaluate • Outcomes, combined with inputs and with the effects of exogenous factors Control • Inputs that can be regulated Budget • Efficiency measures (specifically outcomes or outputs divided by inputs) Motivate • Almost-real-time outputs compared with production targets
Characteristics of Performance Measures – Needs II Promote • Easily understood aspects of performance about which citizens really care Celebrate • Periodic and significant performance targets that, when achieved, provide people with a real sense of personal and collective accomplishment Learn • Disaggregated data that can reveal deviancies from the expected Improve • Inside-the-black-box relationships that connect changes in operations to changes in outputs and outcomes
Conclusion "What gets measured gets done“ If you measure it, people will do it.
CEPEJ Activities on Court Performance
Activities of CEPEJ in the field of… • Evaluation of Judicial Systems • Judicial time management • Quality of justice • Enforcement • Mediation • Targeted co-operation
CEPEJ – recommends especially • Evaluation of Judicial Systems – Report • “Time Management Checklist“ • SATURN – European Uniform Guidelines for Monitoring of Judicial Timeframes (EUGMONT) • GOJUST – Guidelines on Judicial Statistics
CEPEJ – recommended indicators Efficiency rate, Total backlog, Backlog resolution, Case per judge, Standard departure …
Comprehensive court quality models The Netherlands: measurement system court quality and RechtspraaQ Finland: Quality Benchmarks Rovaniemi Courts Ongoing work of CEPEJ-GT-QUAL