Author : Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110717659X
In this book, Verkuil uses his inside perspective on government to examine the increasing impact of private contractors on governance. Outsourcing of government functions is on the rise and is of concern to scholars and practitioners, and the reputation of the author will bring considerable attention to this book.
Author : Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781316629666
To be effective, government must be run by professional managers. When decisions that should be taken by government officials are delegated to private contractors without adequate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Verkuil uses his inside perspectives on government performance and accountability to examine the tendencies at both the federal and state levels to 'deprofessionalize' government. Viewing the turn to contractors and private sector solutions in ideological and functional terms, he acknowledges that the problem cannot be solved without meaningful civil service reforms that make it easier to hire, incent and, where necessary, fire career employees and officials. The indispensable goal is to revitalize bureaucracy so it can continue to competently deliver essential services. By highlighting the leadership that already exists in the career ranks, Verkuil senses a willingness, or even eagerness, to make government, like America, great again.
Author : Paul Du Gay
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199275467
The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence. The book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures, and seeks to highlight some of the costs of attempts to de-bureaucratize organizational life in business, government, and the third sector. Overall the volume highlights the values of bureaucracy and at the same time indicates why distinctively bureaucratic forms of organization should continue to be valued.
Author : Alexander Styhre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2007-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134156421
Original and based on unique empirical research in the areas of organization theory and organizational behaviour, focusing on two major companies, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation.
Author : Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2007-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0511346360
Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to govern effectively. When decisions that should have been taken by government officials are delegated (wholly or in part) to private contractors without appropriate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Books on private military have described the problem well, but they have not offered prescriptions or solutions this book does.
Author : Kenneth J. Meier
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801883569
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Author : Mark Schwartz
Publisher : IT Revolution
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1942788053
Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means—and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements “tossed over the wall” by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal! Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.
Author : K. Henderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1999-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0333983351
This volume seeks to explore bureaucratic forms of administration in the Third World and alternatives to them. Experts with wide experience in development are assembled to deal with issues of reform, indigenization, and desirable futures.
Author : Samuel Workman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107061105
This book assesses the influence of bureaucracy in American politics, asking how government agencies and Congress come to know about, and understand, important policy problems confronting citizens and government officials.
Author : Jos C.N. Raadschelders
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472038540
It is only in the last 250 years that ordinary people (in some parts of the world) have become citizens rather than subjects. This change happened in a very short period, between 1780 and 1820, a result of the foundations of democracy laid in the age of revolutions. A century later local governments embraced this shift due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. During the twentieth century, all democratic governments began to perform a range of tasks, functions, and services that had no historical precedent. In the thirty years following the Second World War, Western democracies created welfare states that, for the first time in history, significantly reduced the gap between the wealthy and everyone else. Many of the reforms of that postwar period have been since rolled back because of the belief that government should be more like a business. Jos C.N. Raadschelders provides the information that all citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without it. The Three Ages of Government rises above stereotypical thinking to show the centrality of government in human life.
