Evaluation of Public Service Efficiency Through Corporate Governance Culture: Analysis of Key Performance Indicators

Public service is the bedrock of the development of any society, because it sets the agenda through policy initiatives and implementation. This is achieved through regulation and institutional oversights. However, over the years, Nigeria’s public sector have witness significant challenges in the implantation of public policy and as a result have not achieved the desired goals or objective. This is largely due to poor motivational factors such as abysmally low wages, poor employment or welfare conditions, ineffective inter-personal communication attitudes, weak employee appraisal or performance evaluation methods, etc. The agenda of this paper therefore is to uncover ways that corporate governance culture or initiatives that have helped private organizations in the maximization of significant profits could be adopted into the management of human and material resources of key public sector concerns. Various models were discussed with live illustrations of how they have been deployed with significant success rates. The idea of public-private partnerships and how they can be strengthened was advanced. In the overall, the study concluded that public service can be as efficient as private ventures if the models of success applied in the private environments can be deployed into the public sector situations by engaging private experts to bring about the needed change.