The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of local government administrators on the introduction of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) system as a means of performance evaluation. To achieve this purpose, the study examines the levels of ac...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of local government administrators on the introduction of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) system as a means of performance evaluation. To achieve this purpose, the study examines the levels of acceptability and investigates on which factors affect the acceptability level of the system by analyzing the results of a survey on the acceptability of BSC.
Questions to be verified through the data analysis are as follows.
First, is there any difference in the acceptability among local governments? Second, how is the level of the acceptability of local government workers on the introduction of BSC? Third, what affects organization members to consider in the process of the system introduction?
The study establishes a system acceptability model as a dependant variable, and classifies such independent variables as organizational elements and individual elements. Organizational elements include innovation, leadership, organizational culture and incentive, while individual elements include education, participation, system understanding and duty burden to analyze their effect on the acceptability of BSC.
The results of the study are as follows.
Differences are found among local governments. Regarding organizational elements, there are differences in innovation, and when it comes to individual elements, there are differences in participation, education, duty burden and system understanding among local governments. On the other hand, no difference is found in incentive and organizational culture among local governments.
When the group is analysed by position, no difference is found by position on the acceptability of BSC and in organizational elements, but a significant difference is found in system understanding and an individual element.
It is found that organizational elements affecting the acceptability of BSC introduction are innovation and appropriate incentive, while individual elements are participation/education regarding system introduction, and duty burden and system elements regarding BSC.
As a result of an analysis using control variables, innovation is found to be significant among organizational elements, while participation/education element is found to have an effect on acceptability among individual elements.
Regarding synthesized elements, elements affecting acceptability are found to be participation/education, incentive, duty burden and system understanding. When it comes to an analysis including controlled variables, elements affecting acceptability are found to be participation/education and duty burden.
In this study, participation/education element includes all the participation and education of the BSC system. Regarding the acceptability of BSC, it is found that participation/education is the most significant element to raise the acceptability. For the successful establishment of BSC, it is needed to raise organizational members' understanding of the system through education and to reduce their resistance through their participation in the introduction of the system.
BSC should not be regarded as a system only measuring and assessing performance. Instead, reward systems and the change of organizational culture based on BSC's philosophy and performance should precede. In addition, various elements affecting the acceptability such as innovation, leadership, organizational culture, incentive and system understanding need to be considered to raise the acceptability of the system.
This study is significant in that it provides a ground for constructing a strategy to raise local government workers' acceptability at the time of BSC introduction. In particular, the study will help raise the acceptability in the future by investigating the biggest affecting element, participation/education, in terms of local government workers' system acceptability.