Public Administration & Management

Organizational Assessment and Improvement in the Public Sector Workbook..

This title reveals how organizational behavior enables managers to direct resources that advance the programs and policies of public and government. This edition offers a public sector perspective of core topics, such as communication, decision-making, leadership, management ethics, motivation, orga..

Utilizing case studies and an original set of interviews with community members, elected officials, and city employees, this book provides a rare window onto the participatory budgeting process through the words and experiences of the very individuals involved. This book provides students, local gov..

Presenting an innovative contribution to the literature on the politics of pension reform, this volume provides a neo-institutionalist analysis of pension reform in Belgium, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom...

This new book provides a cross-country comparative analysis of the key issues shaping the latest pension reforms in Europe: political games, welfare models and pathways, population reactions, and observed and expected outcomes...

People Skills for Public Managers fills the need for a concise, inexpensive, skills-oriented supplemental text set in the public and nonprofit context. The authors combine just enough basic theory about communication with specific skill development in areas of immediate interest to those who work in..

People Skills for Public Managers fills the need for a concise, inexpensive, skills-oriented supplemental text set in the public and nonprofit context. The authors combine just enough basic theory about communication with specific skill development in areas of immediate interest to those who work in..

his edition includes increased coverage of cost accounting procedures and of citizen participation in..

his edition includes increased coverage of cost accounting procedures and of citizen participation in..

Expectations for performance management continue to grow in the public sector, but there remains little understanding on how to effectively implement and sustain these systems. This volume discusses the practical challenges involved in performance measurement efforts and provides context-sensitive g..

Human resources comprises one of the largest shares of government budget at every level. The management of people who carry out the government's work is therefore a critical issue to politicians as well as citizens. This reference includes comprehensive sections on the history of civil service refor..

The long-awaited new edition of this highly praised text includes full coverage of policy issues and professional practice in nonprofit organizations, as well as at federal, state, and local levels of government. It retains the characteristics that have made previous editions a success: an accessibl..