Author : Barry Bozeman
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1587982331
Reprint. All organizations, whether they be governmental, business, or not-for-profit, are to one degree or another subject to public authority and therefore are all "public" in their basic nature.
Author : Barry Bozeman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1987-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780608217857
Author : Hal G. Rainey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470528680
Understanding and Managing Public Organizations provides a comprehensive analysis of research and practice on public organizations and management. In this fourth edition of his award-winning best seller, Hal Rainey reviews topics including organizational goals and performance, decision making and strategy, leadership, motivation, organizational structure and design, organizational change, and others. He analyzes effective and ineffective practices, with suggestions for managing contemporary and classic challenges in public organizations, and with illustrative vignettes and examples. Carefully revised and updated, this edition of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations extends previous editions with deeper coverage of collaboration and networks, public values, public service motivation, managerial strategy, performance assessment, innovation and organizational change, and recent trends in public sector management. Praise for the Previous Editions "The third edition of the classic text provides a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of research on public organizations and management. Drawing on a review of the most current research about government organizations and managers, this important source offers specific suggestions for managing these challenges in today's public organizations." ? Abstracts of Public Administration "A masterful textbook, as well as an important and original contribution to the public organization theory literature ? both comprehensive in its treatment of organization theory and decidedly 'public' in its perspective." ?Public Administration Review "A tremendous contribution to the field. Rainey's ability to synthesize research streams from a variety of fields?such as political science, public administration, public policy, business administration, psychology, sociology, and others?is outstanding." ?Jeffrey L. Brudney, Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service, Cleveland State University
Author : Montgomery Van Wart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 135197680X
Now in a completely revised and updated Third Edition, Leadership in Public Organizations provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practitioners who work in public and nonprofit organizations. Offering a comprehensive review of leadership theories in the field, from the classic to the cutting-edge, and how they relate specifically to the public sector context, this textbook covers the major competency clusters in detail, supported by research findings as well as practical guidelines for improvement. These competencies are graphically portrayed in a leadership action cycle that aids readers in visually connecting theory and practice. Including questions for discussion and analysis and hypothetical scenarios for each chapter, as well as an easily reproducible leadership assessment instrument students may use to apply the theories they’ve learned, this Third Edition also explores: The rise of e-leadership, or the relationship between leadership and information and communication technologies, as well as the role leaders play in selecting those technologies The challenges of nonprofit management leadership, including an extensive case study designed to illustrate the differences between public and nonprofit sector leadership curricula Separate, dedicated chapters on charismatic and transformational leadership; distributed leadership; ethics-based leadership; and power, world cultures, diversity, gender, complexity, social change, and strategy. Leadership in Public Organizations is an essential core text designed specifically with upper-level and graduate Public Administration courses on leadership in mind, but it has also proven an indispensable guidebook for professionals seeking insight into the role of successful leadership behavior in the public sector. It can further be used as supplementary reading in introductory courses examining management competencies, in leadership classes to provide practical self-help and improvement models, and in Organizational Theory classes that wish to balance organizational perspectives with individual development.
Author : Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139502875
How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of public programs? What aspects of management can be distinguished? Can their separable contributions to performance be estimated? The fate of public policies in today's world lies in the hands of public organizations, which in turn are often intertwined with others in latticed patterns of governance. Collectively, these organizations are expected to generate performance in terms of policy outputs and outcomes. In this book, two award-winning researchers investigate the effectiveness of management in the public sector. Firstly, they develop a systematic theory on how effective public managers are in shaping policy results. The rest of the book then tests this theory against a wide range of evidence, including a data set of 1,000 public organizations.
Author : P. Lægreid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230290604
Governance of Public Sector Organizations a nalyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate how generations of reform result in increased complexity of government organizations, and explain this layering process with multiple theories.
Author : Steven Cohen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470432527
Since it was first published more than twenty years ago, The Effective Public Manager has become the classic resource for public administrators and students. The fourth edition of groundbreaking work synthesizes the current thinking in the field and presents practical lessons and tools in a highly accessible format. Focused on helping real-world managers and managers-to-be meet the demands of their jobs head-on rather than working around the constraints of government, this book offers a fresh approach to implementing effective management tools in a dynamic political, organizational, economic, and technological context.
Author : Karen Marie Hult
Publisher : Thomson Brooks/Cole
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This concise, stimulating look at the politics within organizations is not a standard text or run-of-the-mill survey of theories. This book provides an analytical look at the formal and informal structures that define and give rise to politics in organizations. Hult & Walcott provoke readers to look beyond structures for control and supervision. In this way, it is possible to see how organizations do and should make their most critical decisions and to understand the consequences for society and for those inside organizations. Using examples from a wide variety of public organizations, the authors present a lively, interesting discussion that is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and practicing professionals.
Author : Martin Cole
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2006-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470054522
A new approach to understanding and improving performance and public value This book presents the Public Service Value Model-an innovative, rigorous approach to defining public outcomes and quantifying results-to help readers understand and improve public service delivery. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, this guide will arm public service managers-whether in government, nonprofit, or even for-profit organizations-with a practical framework that can be used to define outcomes and manage trade-offs in public service delivery. Martin Cole (Hartford, CT) is Group Chief Executive of Accenture's Government Operating Group. Greg Parston (London, UK) is Executive Director of the Accenture Institute for Public Service Value.
Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136218742
This is the first book to examine the connections between diaspora - the movement, whether forced or voluntary, of a nation or group of people from one homeland to another - and its representations in visual culture. Two foundational articles by Stuart Hall and the painter R.B. Kitaj provide points of departure for an exploration of the meanings of diaspora for cultural identity and artistic practice. A distinguished group of contributors, who include Alan Sinfield, Irit Rogoff, and Eunice Lipton, address the rich complexity of diasporic cultures and art, but with a focus on the visual culture of the Jewish and African diasporas. Individual articles address the Jewish diaspora and visual culture from the 19th century to the present, and work by African American and Afro-Brazilian artists.
