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        mance incentive or some would be  XVIII.  Red type Employees              each and every matter.
           getting more incentive then other.   XIX.   Political meddling      4.  Introduction of financial benefits to
           The incentive plans needs to be   XX.   Extraneous factors             the employees for the performance
           adjusted regularly in order to give   XXI.   Lack of job descriptions  and   in organizations. Reduction of red
           financial benefits to the deserving     seriousness                    tape in organizations.
           employees for the performance not                                   5.  Top management  should  have
           to  ones that  do not  deserve or   XXII.   Control political intervention   sovereignty  and  ascendancy  to
           contribute towards the objective of   XXIII.  Lack of competitive market   take some new initiatives, to bring
           the public sector organizations.        based remuneration             some changes in the organization,
           Employee’s small or little contribu- XXIV.  Lack of incentivize  perfor-  and there should be also encour-
           tions should  be appreciated  at        mance                          aged  for competition  within  or
           either  small  or large  level  in the   XXV.   Absence  of appraisal  inter-  among other public sector organi-
           organization.                           views                          zations. Providing new challenges
        Public sector organizations often work   XXVI.  Boss prospective  thinking for   & motivation  to the managers  to
        under predefined  rules and regula-        promotions.                    achieve new heights.
        tions. Behn in 1995 explained  that   XXVII.  Lack of out of the box thinking Government organization  has an
        bureaucratic structure of public sector   XXVIII. Working  on  old  line  of   edge, as they can perform with greater
        organizations are normally backed by       thoughts                    performance  and even can produce
        the political system of the country that                               much better than other private organi-
        often prefers bureaucracy over partici-  Now the question arises that, how can   zations. Not only that government just
        pative management. In achieving the   an organization  overcome such   remove its influence from the political
        strategic management goals in public   hurdles? Below are the few  recom-  will in the public sector organizations,
        sector  organizations, some of  the   mendations  for the public  sector   communicate the goals of the organi-
        important hindrances are listed below.   organizations.                zation to its employee’s,  implement
        I.     Lack of leadership           1.  Top core management should be   merit based policies, redesign  the
        II.    Political  influence  in recruit-  given at  least for  3  to  5  years to   salary structure and linking  pay with
                                               perform and implement their
               ment and setting organization-  policies  and  strategies  of the   performance, use pay for output along
               al goals                        organization  to measure the    with efficacy, encourage the staff and
        III.   Lack of professionalism  in     performance of  the  top  manage-  recognize their performance achieve-
               public sector organization      ment.                           ment,  reduce the  number of  huge
        IV.    Conflict of interest         2.  Top Management  should  com-   unwanted and redundant staff,  rules
        V.     Lack of strategic goals setting  mence a culture of  recommenda-  and  formalities.  Simplify  the process
                                                                               and reduce number of transactions in
        VI.    Lack of consistency of policies  tions /  engaging  management,   a process. Delegation of powers, with
        VII.   Interdepartmental differences   hear new ideas for improvement in   defined rules and procedures should
               and hurdles                     the system.                     be used to reduce the time period
        VIII.   Conflict of  interest between   3. Communication  should   be  performance management. In the age
               departments                     improved at all the level of organi-  of technology, this is not only on of the
        IX.    Lack of motivation              zation, goals of the organization   very perfect way for enhancing  the
        X.     Too much centralized decision   should be communicated to all the   performance and its measurement.
                                               employees to get them on board at
               making system
        XI.    Status-quo strategy
        XII.   Lack of coordination between
               departments
        XIII.   Ambiguity of goals
        XIV.   Too much Government  inter-
               ventions
        XV.    Major  purpose  is to serve
               higher management, not profit
               orientation
        XVI.   Corruption,  non  transparent
               public expenditure.
        XVII.   Wrong performance evalua-
               tion technique

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