Accountability by Micro-Performance
Shoei-Po Lin*
Abstract
The purpose of establishing public organization is to maximize its performance and then to achieve organization's vision and the hope of target groups. The achievement of this vision and hope heavily depends on employee's efforts through individual and collective behaviors. The paper takes aim at micro aspect and attempts to explore this type of accountability by performance. First, it anatomizes functions of accountability by micro-performance in order to justify its basis of legitimacy. Second, it constructs targets or criteria of accountability to be used by the responsible person or agency. Third, it addresses three preconditions of performance and designs its promotion strategies respectively through the willingness to performance, the capability to perform, and the opportunity to perform. Finally, this paper advocates that effective implementation of these promotion strategies is to create origins of performance and strengthen organization's accountability for its stakeholders.
Keywords: accountability by performance, willingness to perform, opportunity to perform, capability to perform
* Professor, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University.