Resource Allocation in the Public Sector: Values, Priorities and Markets in the Management of Public Services

ISBN-13: 9780415178747 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str.

C. M. Fisher

Opis

The widespread restructuring and privatization of UK public services has fundamentally changed the nature of society. This text is an examination of all aspects of public sector management. It includes: recent developments in the public sector and policy making; analysis of the role of markets and quasi markets in the allocation and delivery of public services; the heuristics and dialectics of resource allocation; news stories from the press, such as the story of child B to illustrate arguments; and two diagnostic inventories Monksbane and Feverfew and RAPS which readers can use to assess their own values about public services.

Spis treści

1 The problematics of public service resource allocation 2 The heuristics of resource allocation: how people determine priorities 3 The apologetics of public sector organisations 4 The rhetoric of resource allocation: arguments about how priorities should be set and resources allocated 5 The mechanics of making markets 6 The dialectic of resource allocation 7 A polemic: conclusions about resource allocation and public services

O autorze

C.M.Fisher is Principal Lecturer in HRM at Nottingham Business School.