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Performance Management in the Public Sector
Wouter Van DoorenThis new edition has been revised and updated to examine: performance in the context of current public management debates, including emerging discussions on the New Public Governance and neo-Weberianism; the many definitions of performance ...
The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management
Christopher HoodWhy does public management–the art of the state–so often go wrong, producing failure and fiasco instead of public service?
A Reasonable Public Servant: Constitutional Foundations of ...
Lily Xiao Hong LeeAn essential text for PA courses on Human Resource Management as well as Public Management and Law, this book illuminates the role of the reasonable public servant, who strives to perform authorized functions efficiently, yet in a manner ...
Managing the Public Sector
Grover StarlingThe Ninth Edition continues to engage the student's intellect by providing more than just the basic foundations of management; it places the application of management in the context of the public sector and tries to capture the excitement ...
Management Speak: Why We Listen to What Management Gurus Tell Us
David GreatbatchBased on primary research into the public lectures of management gurus, this fascinating new volume analyzes how such gurus disseminate their ideas, values and visions on the international management lecture circuit.
Liberia: Public Investment Management Assessment
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.This Technical Assistance Report presents an evaluation of the public investment management (PIM) in Liberia.
Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the European ...
Preview(IGR, FED) O'Leary, Rosemary, and Lisa Blomgren Bingham (2007) 'Symposium on collaborative public management: introduction', International Public Management Journal, 10(1), 3–8. (IGM) O'Leary, Rosemary, Catherine Gerard, and Lisa ...
Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics ...
Lawrence J. ValeThe building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view.
Implementing Public Policy: An Introduction to the Study of ...
Michael HillBuilding on the success of the previous two editions, this book provides students with an exemplary overview of the theory and practice of public policy implementation and how it relates to contemporary public management.
The Global Public Management Revolution
Donald F. KettlIn this new edition of T he Global Public Management Revolution, Donald F. Kettl charts the basic models of reform that are being employed worldwide.
Disaster Vulnerability, Hazards and Resilience: Perspectives ...
Fernando I. RiveraThis book can also be used as a textbook in graduate and advanced undergraduate programs / courses on disaster management, disaster studies, emergency and crisis management, environmental policy and management and public policy and ...
Value and Virtue in Public Administration: A Comparative ...
PreviewEthical Frontiers in Public Management, San Francisco: JosseyBass Publishers. Bowman, J. S. and Claire Connolly-Knox. 2008. Ethics in Government: No Matter How Long and Dark the Night. Public Administration Review, 684: 627–639.
From bureaucracy to public management: the administrative ...
O. P. DwivediThis book is about the systems of values, traditions, perceptions, and meanings existing in the Canadian federal public service since the First World War.
Public Libraries and Resilient Cities
PreviewFrom the economic renewal potential of library development projects, to the provision of public space in a privatizing world, from services for the homeless to crisis management during urban disasters, Public Libraries and Resilient Cities ...
Sports Management and Administration
David C. WattThis book is a must for undergraduates as well as an invaluable tool for professionals in sport management and administration in the private public and voluntary sectors.
Ebk Ethics Management for Public Admini
Donald C. MenzelDonald C. Menzel is professor emeritus of public administration, Northern Illinois University and currently serves as Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Leadership at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. In 2005-2006, Dr.
Ethics Management in the Public Service: A Sensory-based ...
Liza Ireni-SabanBowman, James S. 1990. “Ethics in Government: A National Survey of Public Administrators.” Public Administration Review 50:345–53. ———, and Claire Connolly Knox. 2008. “Ethics in Government: No Matter How Long and Dark the Night.
Flirting with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations
Saundra K. SchneiderPublic Management in Crisis Situations Saundra K. Schneider. Rossi, Peter H. ... Rossi, Peter H., James D. Wright, Eleanor Weber-Burdin, and Joseph Pereira. 1983. Victims of ... Washington, DC: George Washington University. Rubin, Claire ...
Managing and Delivering Performance
Bernard MarrA definitive, focused and practically-based strategic treatment of performance management issues for senior public sector management and their advisors.
Museum Management and Marketing
PreviewIntroduction to Part Two RICHARD SANDELL AND ROBERT R. JANES Z The Effective Management of Museums: Cohesive leadership and visitor-focused public programming DES GRIFFIN AND MORRIS ABRAHAM 8 The University Art ...
Public Relations and Communication Management: An ...
Gary Malcolm MershamThis book provides locally-relevant expertise and 'kiwi' case studies from authors who live, teach, and work in public relations in New Zealand.
Records Management Bulletin: Gestion Des Documents Bulletin
Public Archives Canada. Records Management BranchArtifact Management and Behavioral Discourse in the Software ...
Jie WuThe objective of this work is to develop an artifact management framework (AMF) for supporting a large public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) software development effort.
Middle Management in Academic and Public Libraries
PreviewKim Becnel surveyed youth services middle managers to explore their views on their middle management duties and strategies and also how this group perceives how they are managed by their superiors. Part II focuses on the creation of a ...
Going Public: The Role of Labor-management Relations in ...
Industrial Relations Research AssociationADRIENNE E. EATON AND PAULA B. Voos Rutgers University lntroduction Of the many differences between public and private sector collective bargaining, one of those potentially most important, but often ignored, is the unionization of ...
Public Administration and Law, Third Edition
David H. RosenbloomResponding to the rise of the new public management (NPM), it also adds, for the first time in this edition, a chapter that analyzes the rights of the individual not only as a government employee but also as a government contractor.
Regulating from the Inside: Can Environmental Management ...
Cary CoglianeseJerry Speir Whyshould the general public care about environmental management systems (EMSs)? Inshort, EMSs may transform the way that government regulates forenvironmental protection. About onehalfof the states are presently ...
Hunger and Public Action
Jean DrèzeAn analysis of the problem of hunger in the modern world and of the role that public action can play in combating it. It is aimed at economists, social scientists and all those concerned with the management of food and health resources.
Proceedings of the Board of Regents
Full viewWilliam G. Weissert, Ph J)., professor of health management and policy and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health and senior research scientist in the Institute of Gerontology, retired from ...
Public Garden Management: A Complete Guide to the Planning ...
Donald RakowOffering practical coverage of relevant topics, along with useful tools for reinforcing study, this insightful and forward-thinking guide is: Copublished by the American Public Gardens Association Written by a panel of leading experts in ...
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