Cost Management and Control in Government: Fighting the Cost War Through Leadership Driven Management (Managerial Accounting Collection) - Softcover

Geiger, Dale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606492179 ISBN 13: 9781606492178

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Government organizations spend enormous amounts of money. They employ a large percentage of the work force. They have an undeniably huge impact on the national economy and wealth. Yet they are, for the most part, unmanaged. What passes for management is a combination of oversight and audit. Oversight is primarily reactive: offering negative feedback for failures and demanding additional rules and regulations to prevent reoccurrences. Audits look for ""bright line"" discrepancies and clear violations to those rules and regulations. Government operations are often criticized for ""waste and mismanagement.""Yet the current situation, unfortunately, can best be described as one of ""un-management"" rather than ""mis-management."" Government can run better. The purpose of this book is to look at how government can move from ""rule driven"" to ""leadership driven"" management. Specifically, it will document and discuss specific examples of successful cost informed decision making and cost management and control in government. It will also delineate the requirements of such success and explore the special needs of transforming the management culture of government from its well embedded past practices to a new paradigm of leadership driven management.

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Professor Emeritus; Cal State University

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1606492179
• ISBN 13: 9781606492178
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande