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POLICY EVALUATION GLOSSARY
This glossary offers an alphabetical summary of management
terms commonly used in policy evaluation. It is intended
to supplement the Provisional Guide and to provide a
handy reference document.
2.
Some terms have precise technical meanings accepted
by professional practitioners both in the Civil Service
and elsewhere. Many of those set out in Treasury Working
Paper No. 38 'Output and Performance Measurement in Central
been included. Obviously the more
is about
Government'
have
uniformity
of
usage
Management
the better.
However the purpose of the glossary
being more precise.
to explain how to prescribe but
the
words
are
is not
at present used in practice.
3. The main consideration has been to offer
document
that managers will find practically useful in their policy
work.
Joint Management Unit
October 1986
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