RELATIONS BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC SECTOR UNITS

The purpose of this study is to present the relations between organizational effectiveness and efficiency in public sector units. The study was conducted in 114 Polish communes, in the period from January to June 2013. To assess organizational effectiveness the author's model has been applied, which considers criteria referring to the three main concepts of management in the public sector: the traditional public administration, New Public Management and Public Governance. The efficiency assessment was based on the method of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). To study the relations between the organizational effectiveness and the efficiency Spearman's rank correlation method and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test have been used.