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Comment on: Audit Commission 'never had a day at the races', says boss
I just do not agree that the Audit Commission improved public sector organisations. Coasters or otherwise. The Audit Commission was a highly effective campaigner for its own mythology. It spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money having stalls at public sector events lobbying and advertising its own approach. People are still too afraid to comment openly on its approach. Not once has it evolved or changed how it approach inspection in response to criticism. Each of its inspection reports and approach read like a checklist in a compliance audit. This is not improvement.
I am sure that there will be plenty on here now desperately trying to justify their own existence. I know in my organisations entire teams established to service the Audit Commission checklists are feeling pretty nervous. -
Comment on: HCA delivers 120,000 homes to hit targets
I agree with the previous poster.
The targets are meaningless unless they relate to and meet actual demand.
So yes. Bedrooms and locations please. -
Comment on: Minister chosen to lead localism drive
I am fully supportive of local control, and local responsibility and accountability (although I think that whoever uses the terms needs to be very clear about what they mean when they use it). If localism is everything that is not the imposition of targets, a uniform and corrosive inspection regime, is not a benchmarking-led idiocy then great. If it isn't those at the to of the political spectrum imposing so-called 'good' ideas trickled down through the tiers of control onto service then great. If it means allowed local services to experiment with different ways of providing better services, supported by an inspection process that doesn't want to beat them up for being different. Then great.
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Oh and by the way - the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
Is consultation asking people their opinions? There is no fact involved, just listening to people's ideas. So basically, a bunch of people are going to be asked for their ideas of something that they do not do now (and so wouldn't know if there ideas were of any worth) and this is going to be turned into policy?
Now I know why management by policy and consultation under the last government failed so badly. No new thinking at the RICS. -
Comment on: Compare the landlord
Yes STATUS is about perception but that is as useful as a chocolate tea pot.
How are you going to improve your services based upon what people think who have never used the service?
It makes it meaningless.
The number of factors that can impact on the ill-informed opinion are multiple. -
Comment on: Seeing yourself in the round
360 degrees are dumb management for a number of reasons.
It begins with the assumption that the problem lies with people working in the system instead of how the system has been designed.
It involves lots of people who do not know why the system isn't working (and who think that people are the problem) coming up with the ideas about the problems with the individual.
They then tell other people who do not know or understand the reason the system works the way it does.
Net result? No new knowledge generated nor new leverages for change introduced all for an expensive initiative.
Does it not strike you as of interest that you can be good at communicating, influencing and networking and not have a clue why your system works the way it does, nor have an idea of how to improve the situation?
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Posted in: Staff rewards
No I have never come across an organization that has a successful incentive scheme that achieves what it set out to do. In fact there is a growing body of work that suggests that incentives schemes cause huge rifts within the workplace, cause unintended consequences and have the opposite impact to that which was intended. Quickly incentives are expected to be a part of the normal package and people get angry and disaffected when they aren't. If you do find some examples I would love to visit them to learn and understand. Especially interested how they measure such success.
Most employees working in public sector organisations do an astounding job under sometimes difficult conditions. They should receive a good wage for a difficult job. After that the feeling that doing a good job is enough to make my day. -
Posted in: Inside Housing Revolution
The reason why comparing where agreement can be reached, is that it has no basis in fact.
The political parties come up with ideologies.
Ideologies are the ravines that the parties get trapped (as does the populations who get stuck between two opinion-based approaches).
These tend to be:
Left. More state intervention and centralised top-down control. Central control = less oppression of the poor and disposed by the rich. Nationalise.
Right. State bad, choice and market to improve. Less state = freedom and wealth. Top-down power. Privatise.
Of course the problem is that these ideologies don't work. They keep being tried by each successive generation and keep failing.
Time for a change in thinking? -
Posted in: Targets for ASB Cases
okay Harry i will give it a rest, please note however my original post was suggesting that there was a danger with targets and measures around asb.
it was than attacked by others who made it about systems thinking and it made me cross that knowing little about somehting is no obstacle to comments -
Posted in: Targets for ASB Cases
and then shock horror i do an internet search to find out who joe is and find a reference to a consultant of a housing consultancy
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Posted in: Targets for ASB Cases
erm Joe. Suggesting that you have no slavish adherence to one way of thinking is merely to highlight a slavish adherence to the belief that you have an open mind
i am not promoting systems thinking i just pointed out a point of view about asb targets.
alan and you then decided without any knowledge that there was nothing in it and i am afraid i wont back down with people who dont know what they are talking about
BTY i work for a living and am not a ocnultant