The Enduring Challenges in Public Management: Surviving and Excelling in a Changing World - Couverture rigide

Halachmi, Arie; Bouckaert, Geert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0787900672 ISBN 13 : 9780787900670

Editeur : Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1995

Synopsis

This text brings together leading authorities from the United States and around the world to address the most critical issues facing the public sector. Topics discussed include: how to reorganize, re-engineer, revitalize, modernize and innovate in government and how to adapt to an everchanging global political environment.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The And of the Cold War, advances in information technology, and the many other global changes of the past decade have required managers to change their frame of reference. It is increasingly clear that, for management at all levels, the twenty–first century is going to be greatly different from present and past experience in governance and public administration. These profound changes will add completely new dimensions to the Anduring challenges public managers continually face, involving accountability, democratic values, and productivity and efficiency.

This timely book, sponsored by the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, brings together leading authorities from the United States and around the world to address the most critical issues facing the public sector today––how to reorganize, reengineer, revitalize, modernize, and innovate in government and how to adapt to an ever–changing global political environment. In fifteen thoughtful chapters written especially for this book, respected scholars in the field of public administration discuss the challenges to productivity posed by the immediate and distant changes in our economic, political, and administrative environment.

The authors examine the issues that shape the image of agencies for those working inside, as well as those working outside, looking at how organizations can overcome damaging public perceptions of incompetence and slow–moving bureaucracy and how they can face the challenge of the inevitable bureaucratic red tape.

The book also addresses an array of public management approaches such as total quality management, reengineering, and more. Contributors discuss, for instance, how executives can use new information technology to improve public services, enhance agency producivity, and evaluate the benefits and challenges of using volunteers.

The authors look at how strategic planning can help public agencies to develop a shared vision around mission, goals, resources, power, and

Revue de presse

"In an age of reinventing government, The Enduring Challenges in Public Management brings home to the real world the unavoidable push and shove being experienced in the public sector when the culture of entrepreneurial management joins with the traditional mores of ′good goverment.′ Public administrators thinking about revitalizing their agencies would be well advised to first acquaint themselves with this book." Nicholas L. Henry, president, Georgia Southern University

"The constantly changing nature of the challenges faced by public managers forces them to seek new solutions to sometimes familiar problems. The chapters in this book are an excellent place to begin that search." Tex (Robert H.) McClain, Jr., president, American Society for Public Administration

"A valuable and well–conceived book. The scholars and experts on public administration I respect the most analyze the major current trAnds and challenges in public management, and offer useful insights and advice." Hal G. Rainey, professor, Department of Political Science, University of Georgia, and author of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations

"The Enduring Challenges of Public Management is a timely publication for an increasingly borderless world. What was needed (and is now provided) is a critical appreciation of the variety of tools available to the public sector.... We have here a digest of what is available on which we shall be able to feed for many years to come. And what more can policymakers wish for in such a dramatically changing world?" A. C. Hubert, secretary general, European Association of National Productivity Centres

"In our everchanging world, the challenge to those in public management is to stay abreast. This book clearly identifies and explains the forces that shape the public sector today and into the future." Commissioner William B. Whitson, Department of General Services, State of Tennessee

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0787900672
• ISBN 13: 9780787900670
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 450
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible