Changing Public Sector Values

ISBN-13: 9780815320715 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 354 str.

Montgomery Van Wart

Opis

This new, multidisciplinary series will present works devoted to the indigenous peoples of North America -- the First Nations, Native Hawaiians, Native Americans, and the Indians of Mexico. Topics will range from the social sciences to education, law, criminology, health, the environment, religion, architecture, linguistics, and agriculture, including innovative interdisciplinary approaches. Books featuring Native voices and issues of particular current significance to Native peoples will be featured.

"Changing Public Sector Values has 7 captured the essence of the 'new public administration' movement...a first-rate book that is accessible to both scholars and students". -- Stuart C. Gilman, Georgetown University

"The breadth of Van Wart's treatment of public sector values is truly impressive. He takes 'values, ' an abstraction often thrown into discourse with little connection to concrete reality, and shows how it is fundamentally embedded in public organizations and management. Van Wart examines individual, professional, organizational, legal, and public interest values, lucidity linking them to analysis and decision making. The result is a rich volume that offers the reader comprehensive and useful insights". -- Terry L. Cooper, University of Southern California

Managing values is an organizational priority of the highest order. Ethics are derived from values, and organizational leaders and managers have a responsibility to clarify values, support values consensus, and monitor compliance. Giving all major schools of thought equal coverage, this volume examines values from the individual administrator's perspective, from the cultural framework, and from the functional standpoint. Designed to be is useful to both students and practitioners, the book presents examples drawn from all levels of government, with emphasis on such current topics as downsizing, withdrawing tenure, management reductions, organizational redesign, job restructuring, service provision shifts, privatization, and internal competition.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I Values Endorsed in Public Administration CHAPTER 1 The Five Value Sources Used in Decision making in the Public Sector PART II An In-Depth Look at Values Endorsed in Public Administration CHAPTER 2 The Role of Individuals' Values CHAPTER 3 The Role of Professional Values CHAPTER 4 The Role of Organizational Values CHAPTER 5 The Role of Legal Values CHAPTER 6 The Role of Public Interest Values PART III Analyzing Values Using a Cultural Framework Perspective CHAPTER 7 The Cultural Framework and an Analysis of the Origins of Basic Assumptions in Public Administration CHAPTER 8 Decision making Paradigms for Public Administration: Values at Level 3 CHAPTER 9 Selection of a Decision making Process: Values at Level 2 CHAPTER 10 Using a Decision making Process: Reasoned Choice Models (Level l) PART IV Shaping and Managing Values to Ensure Coherence and Legitimacy CHAPTER 11 Encouraging the Right Values CHAPTER 12 To Monitor and Limit CHAPTER 13 Conclusion

O autorze

Montgomery Van Wart