这本书为教育领导者提供了一条切实可行的途径，帮助他们提高组织效率、共享方向感，并明确关注学生的成果。为学校、学区、国家机构等各类教育机构设定明确的方向、组织人员以实现最高生产率、让每个人都参与有意义的工作、跟踪组织绩效并鼓励创新，这些都是他们最关心的问题。然而，教育领导人在应对满足学生需求的挑战的同时，很难对这些组织事项给予应有的关注。他们正在寻找一条既能提高组织生产力，又能为学生带来卓越学习的道路，一条能激发所有员工热情和努力的道路。战略绩效管理（Strategic Performance Management，SPM）将战略规划与绩效管理整合为一个无缝的过程，教育组织通过该过程制定并实施战略方向。这一方向超越了愿景、使命、价值观、目标和战略的基本要素，包括仔细分析组织、单位和职位（角色）履行的职能，以促进人员的有效安置、分配和培训。SPM强调通过战略思维进行规划，使组织能够根据需要和环境变化进行关键调整。它提供了在危机时刻采取行动的灵活性。最重要的是，它让每个人都朝着同一个方向前进，为学生设定目标。
Managing Performance Strategically in Education Agencies: A Guidebook for Strategic Performance Management (SPM)
This book gives an education leader a practical path to organizational effectiveness, shared sense of direction, and clear focus on outcomes for students. Setting a clear direction, structuring personnel for the greatest productivity, engaging everyone in meaningful work, tracking organizational performance, and encouraging innovation are fundamental concerns for every kind of education organization—schools, districts, state agencies included. Yet, education leaders struggle to give due attention to these organizational matters while also tackling the challenges of meeting the needs of their students. They are searching for a path leading to both organizational productivity and excellence in learning for students, a path that enlists the passions and efforts of all personnel. Strategic Performance Management (SPM) integrates strategic planning with performance management into a seamless process by which an education organization develops and operationalizes a strategic direction. This direction goes beyond the basic elements of vision, mission, values, goals, and strategies to include careful analysis of the functions performed by the organization, its units, and its positions (roles) to facilitate effective placement, assignment, and training of personnel. SPM emphasizes planning through strategic thinking that enables the organization to make critical adjustments as needs and context change. It provides the flexibility to act in times of crisis. Most of all, it gets everyone moving in the same direction, aimed at goals for students.
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