Revised and updated second edition of a text first published in 1992. Includes recent empirical research and a new section on management in practice. Addresses issues relating to the design and structure of governmental bodies, the utility and impact of alternative management techniques and public sector ethics and accountability. Includes references and an index. The authors have senior positions at the Centre for Australian Public Sector Management and have published extensively in their field.
'This is an excellent 'do-it-yourself' introductory study to public sector management, covering a wide range of issues, including recent public service reforms.
to do with public sector accountability and management . The Commission seeks to promote an efficient and accountable public service in which the traditional public sector virtues of merit , equity and fairness are preserved .
But these are not presented as a silver bullet, and Ferguson addresses other approaches to reform, including the need to rebuild the Public Sector Act, the need to reconsider the interface between political and administrative arms of ...
The authors bring to this book expertise gained from political science, publicadministration and policy, public and private sector law.
This book brings together the experience and research of a range of 'reflective practitioners' and 'engaged academics' in public sector management, organisational theory, management theory, public sector ethics and law.
Introduces basic issues and approaches to corporate management in the public sector. Examines major issues involved in organisational development. Identifies principles and options available to management and shows managers how...
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Public Sector Management in Ghana: Lessons Drawn from the Australian Public Service (1985-2008)
By investing in the job satisfaction of managers as well as by promoting greater awareness among managers of their ... Our specific concerns in the current chapter involve exploring relationships between managers and non-managers across ...
A series of democratic, constitutional and other values underlie notions. 6 On the importance of trust in a governmental context, see: Uhr 2005; and Braithwaite and Levi 2003. On the importance of transparency as a dominant value in ...