Verksamhetsstyrning i Stockholmsstad
En studie av verksamhetsstyrningen i Skarpnäcks stadsdelsförvaltning
Balanced ScorecardBenchmarkingVerksamhetsstyrningStockholms stadSkarpnäcks stadsdelEkonomistyrningILSIntegrerat LedningssystemMålstyrningKommunal verksamhet
This paper is a study of corporate governances in the municipal of Stockholm. The purpose of this paper is to enlighten the problems and opportunities for the corporate governances of the wards in the municipal of Stockholm. The municipal of Stockholm is made up of 18 relatively self-governing wards, whose activities bear a resemblance to one and other. Therefore we have specified our survey to corporate governances in the ward of Skarpnäck (Skarpnäcks stadsdel), to be able to use this ward as an example to corporate governances in the entire municipal of Stockholm. The essay emanates from the important management theories: Budget, Integrated Management system (ILS), Benchmarking and Balanced Scorecard.The essay is based on interviews and a poll survey we conducted in the administration of the ward of Skarpnäck, and also based on interviews with Stockholm?s city hall. We have also studied organizational documents and made field observations. All of the survey data has been interweaved with the above mentioned theories to form a study of the corporate governance in the municipal of Stockholm.In the papers first part we explain what a municipal and an administrative ward is, and how they are organized. This is followed by a theory section where we describe the theories behind Budget, Integrated Management system, Benchmarking and Balanced Scorecard. In the empirical section that follows, we examine how these different theories and models are used in the municipal of Stockholm. Furthermore we present the results of or poll survey in the empirical section. In the empirical section we also examine the effect of political management in the organization. After that follows an analysis and a discussion of each theory. In the discussion section we present our own opinion. The discussion is concluded with a summarization of our own proposals to improve the management of the municipal of Stockholm.Our conclusion is that there?s a gap of knowledge in the organization, between those who outline the management and those who?s governed. The corporate governance is not communicatively adapted to bridge this gap. The gap of knowledge is mainly due to the lack of knowledge in economics and corporate governance with the lower-level managers. The lower-level managers are often internally recruited from their own accounting unit. The lower-level managers also get unreasonably large areas of responsibility. We would like to see one or more manager superior to the accounting unit managers (lower-level). The superior manager/s could then devote herself entirely to make the organization as effective as possible thru better corporate governance. An alternative measure would be to use the competence of the economic department to a greater extent when managing each accounting unit. The determining factor of today?s system is the budget. The corporate governance is primarily based on budget data, as these data are easiest to understand and evaluate.