Author: Christopher M Shea
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: public, policy, administration, information, handbook, systems
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2000-01-20
List price: $199.95
ISBN-10: 0824782445
ISBN-13: 9780824782443
Written by more than 60 contributors who depict the remarkable transformation of the public management profession by computers, this book presents the historical, institutional, legal, organizational, functional, policy, and theoretical background that constitutes IT literacy for public service. The book describes the application of IT to training, budgeting, and policy simulation at the federal level, and to community planning, community telecommunications, and welfare at the state level. Providing a broad and timely overview of IT as it applies to the public sector the book collects critical
Author: Richard C. Kearney
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: public, administration, policy, fourth, sector, relations, labor
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $81.95
ISBN-10: 1420063146
ISBN-13: 9781420063141
That we are participants in a global economy may no longer be news, but its impact continues to shape the field of labor relations. This is certainly true in the public sector where union membership is stagnant and outsourcing is becoming more and more prevalent. Further impacting current trends are local and state movements to restructure public organizations and the processes they use to conduct their activities and provide services. These include the mechanisms of collective bargaining and contract administration. Reflecting these and many other trends and changes, this fourth edition of t
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Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: public, expanded, administration, revised, policy, financial, studies, budgeting, case, management
Number of Pages: 836
Published: 2003-03-11
List price: $146.95
ISBN-10: 0824708881
ISBN-13: 9780824708887
Case studies are provided in public budgeting and financial management.
Author: Howard A. Frank
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: public, policy, administration, management, financial
Number of Pages: 840
Published: 2006-01-13
List price: $134.95
ISBN-10: 0849395666
ISBN-13: 9780849395666
Public Financial Management covers the five major pillars of this sub-discipline of public administration: context, public finance, retirement systems, performance measurement and budgeting, and international perspectives. This text offers practitioners information valuable in their day-to-day operations, while also providing students in public administration and public management programs with a solid foundation for their own development as future professionals and researchers. Overall this volume promotes linkages between resource allocation and "value-adds" for citizens and stakeholders, dr
Author: Jack Rabi
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: public, policy, administration, budgeting, handbook
Number of Pages: 760
Published: 1992-02-26
List price: $299.95
ISBN-10: 0824785924
ISBN-13: 9780824785925
The Handbook is organized around two major themes: the budget process and budgeting fundamentals. Each chapter is a bibliographical treatise providing an in-depth overview of a major subfield of the disciple. The first section of the volume, on the budget process, presents background theories, histo
Author: Kathleen M. Immordino
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: public, series, administration, policy, aspa, sector, assessment, improvement, organizational
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1420084208
ISBN-13: 9781420084207
Calls for performance measures and metrics sound good, but public sector organizations often lack the tools required to assess the organization as a whole and create true change.In order to implement an integrated cycle of assessment, planning, and improvement, government agencies at all levels need a usable framework for organizational assessment that speaks to their unique needs. Organizational Assessment and Improvement in the Public Sector provides that framework, an understanding of assessment itself, and a methodology for assessment focused on the public sector. The book introduces the
Author: Vernon Dale Jone
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: public, reductions, bureaucracies, administration, policy, workforce, sector, federal, government, management, downsizing
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-05-01
List price: $106.95
ISBN-10: 0765601184
ISBN-13: 9780765601186
This text explores the effects of the corporate downsizing of the 1970s and 1980s which still reverberate in American society in the 1990s. It focuses on the implementation of the Clinton administration’s "reinventing government" initiative across three federal agencies.
