Productivity is essentially the ratio of an organization’s outputs divided by its inputs. For many years it was treated as always being static in government agencies. In fact productivity in
government services should be rising rapidly as a result of digital changes and new management approaches, and it has done so in some agencies. However, Dunleavy and Carrera show for the first
time how complex are the factors affecting productivity growth in government organizations - especially management practices,use of IT, organizational culture, strategic mis-decisions and
political and policy churn.
