Assessing the Operationalisation of the Results Based Management Approach in the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development in Zimbabwe (original) (raw)

2016, Public Policy and Administration Research

The study investigates the implementation of the Results Based Management (RBM) approach in the Zimbabwean context, using the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development as the principal case study. While RMB has several components relating to budgeting, personnel performance, e-governance and monitoring and evaluation; this study is restricted to personnel performance system. Research data was collated through documentary and empirical case study reviews. Study findings suggest that notwithstanding concerted effort towards institutionalizing a results-based culture in state institutions, the politics of administration, resistance to change, lack of significant buy-in amongst employees and management to make the approach successful as well as rampant administrative and technical incapacity challenges, have emerged as major setbacks stalling the process to fruition. These findings raise fundamental questions on the extent to which proper and adequate feasibil...

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