ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the state of performance management reforms in large, general-purpose public agencies in the central government of Taiwan. It presents the practices employed in the performance management system and associated initiatives that are expected to expand the synergy of performance management practices. The chapter outlines Taiwan's experiences in performance management reforms. The performance management systems in the central government of Taiwan were initiated in the early 1950s. In Taiwan, practices of tracking and assessing public programs and agencies’ efficiency and effectiveness have been started in the central government with the broad concept of performance management since the 1950s. In 2001, with the ambition of transforming administrative agencies into outcome-oriented governmental systems, the Executive Yuan in Taiwan issued the “Administrative Performance Assessment Guidelines for Agencies Subordinate to the Executive Yuan.” Reforms of performance management systems have been initiated with an intention of seeking an outstanding government and good governance in Taiwan.
