Civil Service & Public Sector

Inter-organizational collaboration is becoming increasingly significant as a means of achieving organizational objectives in turbulent environments...

Public management research has in recent years paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public ser...

Understanding the effects of radical change on public personnel systems is critically important both now and in the future to all those interested ...

This book provides an authoritative account of the first significant overseas diplomatic missions and forays made by Indian civil servants. It reco...

Networks and other collaborations are central to the public sector’s ability to respond to their diverse responsibilities, from international devel...

Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban r...

Examining various methods of debt management used in the US., Handbook of Debt Management, provides a comprehensive analysis of securities offered ...

The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, multi-sector careers - require enhance...

The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a ...

The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a ...

In this revised and enlarged edition of their established textbook, Gavin Drewry and Tony Butcher bring their wide-ranging, critical survey of the ...

In this major work, Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power - political, intellectual, bureaucratic and economic - by means of which conte...

Aims to review the issues raised by the state provision of social benefits and to examine the principles on which their provision may be deemed to ...

In the public sector at the moment resources are scarce - or at the very least finite and limited - how they are allocated is therefore of crucial ...

In the public sector at the moment resources are scarce - or at the very least finite and limited - how they are allocated is therefore of crucial ...

First published in 1988, this book is about the application of moral standards in the course of official work in the British civil service. It appr...

The first edition of Benchmarking in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors offered public officials and administrators at all levels of government a uni...

First published in 1988, this book is about the application of moral standards in the course of official work in the British civil service. It appr...

Sustainable Public Management explores key issues in public sector sustainable management that span from Nation/State to local government. It highl...

First Published in 1969 the Civil Service in Commonwealth Africa describes the changing role of the civil service in Africa from the colonial era, ...

When this book was first published in 1973 there had been little study of the relationships between the organizational structures of public bodies ...

First Published in 1965, the Civil Service in New African States describes the problems and principles relating to the growth and development of th...

"Ethics and Public Administration" refutes the arguments that administrative ethics cannot be studied in an empirical manner and that empirical ana...

The public administrator just not benefit from any analytic tool plan or design, no matter how well thought out, unless it is implemented successfu...

This book defines organizational development (OD) and discusses the philosophy of OD in terms of its assumptions and values. It addresses the issue...

"Ethics and Public Administration" refutes the arguments that administrative ethics cannot be studied in an empirical manner and that empirical ana...

What is public administration? How can we identify it and characterize it? The meaning of public administration seems more problematic than ever af...

In Active Duty: Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship, a distinguished group of contributors examines the role of the American civil se...

The readings in this collection provide a comprehensive guide to the established knowledge and emerging issues regarding democratizing public burea...

This book is your guide to becoming an empowerment leader. Its purpose: to redirect and re-energize leadership in government.If you are involved in...

This volume is part of a series which presents selected research papers dealing with important methodological and theoretical issues in the policy ...

Outcome in the management of public services refers to the impact of a particular public sector activity. This book provides a critical assessment ...

This book reviews the evolution of organization theory literature and explains other theories of organization and the implicit wisdom of the instru...

The readings in this collection provide a comprehensive guide to the established knowledge and emerging issues regarding democratizing public burea...

This volume presents an alternative perspective on the problem of leadership in organizations. Dr. Charles H. Kime argues that while individuals ul...

The revolution in public management has led many reformers to call for public managers to reinvent themselves as public entrepreneurs. Larry D. Ter...

Focusing on the work and labour history of shipyard workers in the Royal Dockyards, this text examines the question of state employment and the spe...

Outcome in the management of public services refers to the impact of a particular public sector activity. This book provides a critical assessment ...

This work addresses one of the most central and timely subjects in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory and especially how ...

The public sector in the UK has undergone radical change over the last two decades. Consequently, managers and service professionals have had to ad...

This series presents selected research papers dealing with important methodological and theoretical issues in the policy sciences, with research in...

Transforming Organizations provides in-depth case studies of outstanding government executives who dramatically changed both the performance and ma...

Fraud, corruption and bribery in and around public services have become an increasing concern in recent years. The reported level of fraud and corr...

The innovative capacity of voluntary organizations has become a touchstone for their role in providing public services. Across the world there are ...

This work addresses one of the most central and timely subjects in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory and especially how ...

In this time of acute financial pressure on public budgets, there is an increasing interest worldwide in alternative ways for governments to raise ...