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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 16
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Evaluation Survivor: How to Outwit, Outplay, and Outlast as an Internal Government Evaluator
Kniker, Ted
New Directions for Evaluation, n132 p57-72 Win 2011
This chapter describes the author's experience and insights as the chief of evaluation for public diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State, and as a consultant assisting federal agencies in a multitude of evaluation activities relating what helps and hinders internal evaluation functions. The article discusses the challenges faced by the internal evaluators, how they overcame these challenges, and how they compare to trends observed by the author in other federal evaluation offices. Ideas are provided for how to better incorporate evaluation functions into organizational management.
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, International Relations, Public Agencies, Federal Government, Misconceptions, Barriers, Public Administration, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Self Evaluation (Groups), Organizational Effectiveness, Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Public Policy, Public Sector, Foreign Policy
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Language: English
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