Civil Service & Public Sector

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 ...