Author: Charles Henry JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Life, Public Services
Author: Elias BoudinotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Life and Public Services of J. Glancy Jones
Author: Charles Henry JonesSpecial collections
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Managing Complexity in the Public Services
Author: Philip HaynesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131781164X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The application of complexity theory to management and the social sciences has been a key development in theory and practice over the last decade. This approach questions the possibility of finding universal methods of practice, and proposes a pragmatic and humanistic management style that evolves out of a reflective method. The focus is on practitioners observing patterns of similarity and being adaptable in decision-making. Bringing complexity theory into management reveals the importance of organizational culture and effective communication because people, their values and their objectives are at the heart of this method. Information technology provides a framework for complex communication and knowledge use, but it cannot replace highly developed professional negotiations and cooperation. This book argues that the complexity of the public service world limits the usefulness of classical and rational scientific management approaches such as New Public Management. Excessive marketization threatens a collaborative approach and overly rigid approaches to performance management and strategic management can be dysfunctional. Managing Complexity in the Public Services 2nd Edition advances a method of management practice that copes with the stark realities of the complex and unpredictable public policy world. It develops pragmatic management practices from action research that will be valuable to both academics and practitioners. The result is a new value-based practice for the post-crisis public service world.
The War with Mexico, 1846-1848
Author: Henry Ernest HaferkornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Public Service Accountability
Author: Peter MurphyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319933841
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important. Yet austerity, recent changes to accountability frameworks, and the loss of the Audit Commission have created a huge deficit in our understanding of how well services are delivered. The time is thus right to re-examine the state of our vital public services, as well as how we can make them more accountable. This book reopens the debate on what accountability means and provides unique insights into an increasingly complex organizational landscape. It presents a new and innovative way of evaluating public services that should be of use to academics and public servants alike. Synthesising empirical work across local government, health and social care, the police, and fire services, this book also explores the relationship between financial and performance accountability and makes the case for the need for a distinctive sense of public service accountability.
The Life in Public Services
Author: Elias BoudinotSupporting Learning Across Working Life
Author: Stephen BillettPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319290193
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This volume considers, rethinks and reorganizes how support for learning across working life can be best conceptualized, organized and enacted. It considers educational and learning support processes that include approaches that fit well within working lives and workplaces, and support work and learning as a co-occurrence. These are the key focuses for individual and collective contributions to this edited volume, which provide discussions about what constitutes learning across working lives and how this differs from lifelong learning and lifelong education. Accounts of learning across the working lives of social workers, doctors working in hospitals and in general practice, teaching, aviation, nursing, mining, aged care and more. These accounts advance a range of ways in which workers’ learning across working lives is being supported and how this support is also linked to other changes, such as to the occupational practice in which they engage.
Classed List
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Institutional Dynamics of Culture, Volumes I and II
Author: Perri SixPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351887661
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
These two volumes present the most important recent developments in the institutional theory of culture and demonstrate their practical applications. Sometimes called 'grid-group analysis' or 'cultural theory', they derive from the work of Durkheim in the 1880s and 1900s and develop the insights of the anthropologist Mary Douglas and her followers from the 1960s on. First redefined within social and cultural anthropology, the theory's influence is shown in recent years to have permeated all the main disciplines of social science with substantial implications for politics, history, business, work and organizations, the environment, technology and risk, and crime and consumption. Today, the institutional theory of culture now rivals the rational choice, Weberian and postmodern outlooks in influence across the social sciences.