Understanding and Managing Public Organizations - Hardcover

Rainey, Hal G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787902519 ISBN 13: 9780787902513

Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1996

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Understanding and Managing Public Organizations is the best single source book available for the topics it addresses. I assign it to my Human Resources Management and Organization Theory seminars and I ensure that all of my doctoral students read it for comprehensive exams.
––Patricia W. Ingraham, professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

This new edition of Hal G. Rainey′s award–winning book provides a comprehensive, up–to–date analysis of research on public organizations and management. Includes new tables, figures, and other teaching tools designed specifically to make this book even more useful in graduate courses. Using numerous real–life vignettes and examples, the book summarizes expert analysis on goals, power, effectiveness, motivation and work attitudes, decision making, and more. Drawing on a comprehensive review of current research about government organizations and managers––and about effective and ineffective practices in government––it offers specific suggestions for managing these challenges in today′s public organizations.

Updated to include coverage of recent trAnds and developoments such as total quality management, the National Performance Review, the reinventing government movement and other recent reform efforts, privatization, and managing for excellence. In addition, Rainey draws from major national surveys to reveal important new development in areas such as public service motivation and the structure of public agencies. Now an even more valuable reference for students, scholars, and managers alike.

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HAL G. RAINEY is professor of political science at the University of Georgia and recipient of ASPA′s 1995 Charles H. Levine Award for Excellence in Public Administration Research, Teaching, and Public Service. The first edition of his book won the Best Book Award of the Public and Nonprofit Sectors Division of the Academy of Management in 1992.

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This new edition of Hal G. Rainey′s award–winning book Understanding and Managing Public Organizations (1991) provides a comprehensive, up–to–date analysis of research on public organizations and management, with new tables, figures, and other teaching toolds designed to make this book even more useful in graduate courses. Using nemerous real–life vignettes and examples, the book summarizes expert analysis on goals, power, effectiveness, motivation and work attitudes, decision making, and more. Drawing on a comprehensive review of current research about government organizations and managers––and about effective and ineffective practices in government––it offers specific suggestions for managing these challenges in today′s public organizations.
The book has been updated to include coverage of recent trends and developoments such as total quality management, the National Performance Review, the reinventing government movement and other recent reform efforts, privatization, and managing for excellence. In addition, Rainey draws from major national surveys to reveal important new development in areas such as public service motivation and the structure of public agencies. This new edition of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations covers these topics and findings to make the book a more valuable reference for students, scholars, and managers alike.

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This new edition of Hal G. Rainey′s award–winning book Understanding and Managing Public Organizations (1991) provides a comprehensive, up–to–date analysis of research on public organizations and management, with new tables, figures, and other teaching tools designed to make this book even more useful in graduate courses. Using numerous real–life vignettes and examples, the book summarizes expert analysis on goals, power, effectiveness, motivation and work attitudes, decision making, and more. Drawing on a comprehensive review of current research about government organizations and managers––and about effective and ineffective practices in government––it offers specific suggestions for managing these challenges in today′s public organizations.The book has been updated to include coverage of recent trends and developoments such as total quality management, the National Performance Review, the reinventing government movement and other recent reform efforts, privatization, and managing for excellence. In addition, Rainey draws from major national surveys to reveal important new development in areas such as public service motivation and the structure of public agencies. This new edition of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations covers these topics and findings to make the book a more valuable reference for students, scholars, and managers alike.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0787902519
• ISBN 13: 9780787902513
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424
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