It is widely accepted that management concepts such as strategic managementhuman resource management and management development have a welldefined bodyof knowle... » 

It is widely accepted that management concepts such as strategic managementhuman resource management and management development have a welldefined bodyof knowledge designed to inform management praxis however the notion ofefficiency has no such body of knowledge to support its application withinmanagement praxis.This book proposes the replacement of the generalised term efficiency with themore comprehensive notion of performance efficiency to provide a reliable basison which to evaluate management behaviour. Given the scope of theinvestigation the outcome is not designed to prove the success or failure ofthe inherent nature of efficiency but rather to establish a new starting pointfor yet wider empirical research. At a macrolevel it advances the propositionthat the notion of efficiency has become an ideological statement of supportfor any management intention rather than a practical means to inform orevaluate a range of management actions. «