Integrated Results Based Management

Results Based Management (RBM) can essentially be termed as a contemporary management philosophy and approach that focuses on the appropriate and timely achievement of relevant goals and objectives through strategic planning, systematic implementation and resource usage, performance monitoring, measurement and reporting as well as systematic utilisation of performance information to improve policy decision making and program performance at all levels. The statement above pretty much covers all the main aspects of RBM. It emphasises the importance of achieving results through systematic goals and objectives achievement and clearly states how this should be achieved. The RBM approach has been used in many countries as a strategic performance planning tool, including a version of it that was introduced in Malaysia in 1990..