ilość książek w kategorii: 7224
Lessons in Leadership: Meeting the Challenges of Public Service Management
ISBN: 9780415319065 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector. The book covers:
Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability... |
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246,55 zł |
Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective
ISBN: 9780415370158 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job done, they need public management in order to steer resources employees, money and laws into policy outputs and outcomes. In well-ordered societies the teams who work for the state work under a rule-of-law framework, known as public administration. This book covers the key issues of:
A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments... |
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944,43 zł |
Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective
ISBN: 9780415370165 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job done, they need public management in order to steer resources employees, money and laws into policy outputs and outcomes. In well-ordered societies the teams who work for the state work under a rule-of-law framework, known as public administration. This book covers the key issues of:
A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments... |
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288,53 zł |
Public Procurement : International Cases and Commentary
ISBN: 9780415394048 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever. There is a great interest among managers and academics to learn from other countries and other sectors change initiatives and how they dealt with the challenges they encountered. This text provides such learning opportunities. It arises from the International Research Study on Public Procurement (IRSPP) and presents case studies of public procurement, covering diverse nations, sectors and issues.
The cases are combined with editorial commentary and... In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever. There is a ...
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970,67 zł |
Public Procurement: International Cases and Commentary
ISBN: 9780415394055 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever. There is a great interest among managers and academics to learn from other countries and other sectors change initiatives and how they dealt with the challenges they encountered. This text provides such learning opportunities. It arises from the International Research Study on Public Procurement (IRSPP) and presents case studies of public procurement, covering diverse nations, sectors and issues.
The cases are combined with editorial commentary and... In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever. There is a ...
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361,98 zł |
Managing Performance in the Public Sector
ISBN: 9780415403191 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Topical and taking a bold stance in the contentious debate surrounding performance in the public sector, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, packed full of new features, shows readers how performance thinking has a substantial impact on the management of public organizations. Topical and taking a bold stance in the contentious debate surrounding performance in the public sector, this thoroughly revised and updated second... |
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944,43 zł |
Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform
ISBN: 9780415406673 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Administrative reform in most western democracies over the years has been characterized by bringing in market-based concepts of public-service delivery. This book looks at administrative reform in a comparative perspective. It assesses its scope and objectives, and the impact of reforms, on traditional roles of elective office and civil servants.
Administrative reform in most western democracies over the years has been characterized by bringing in market-based concepts of public-service deliver...
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283,28 zł |
Decision Making Within International Organisations
ISBN: 9780415406789 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the end of the Cold War and in the context of globalization, this work examines the extent to which member states dominate decision making in international organizations and whether non-state actors, for example non governmental organizations and multinational corporations, are influential.
Following the end of the Cold War and in the context of globalization, this work examines the extent to which member states dominate decision making i...
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230,81 zł |
The Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective: A Quest for Control
ISBN: 9780415700252 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the persistent claims made about the public sector over the past several decades has been that the public service has become more politicized. Addressing this important area of debate within public administration, this book discusses conceptions and measurements of politicization, as well as some of its causes and consequences. Using a comparative framework, the authors collected here confront the issue of politicization, identifying the nature and extent of political involvement and assessing the real impact of any changes on the legitimacy and effectiveness of the political system....
One of the persistent claims made about the public sector over the past several decades has been that the public service has become more politicized. ...
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708,33 zł |
Tax Crusaders and the Politics of Direct Democracy
ISBN: 9780415919913 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a history of tax limitation movements in America, showing how direct democracy can, ironically, lead to diminished public involvement in government. Contrary to conventional wisdom, recent ballot initiatives to limit state taxes in the USA have not been the result of a groundswell of public outrage. Instead, they have been carefully orchestrated from the top down by professional tax crusaders: political entrepreneurs with their own agenda.
This volume provides a history of tax limitation movements in America, showing how direct democracy can, ironically, lead to diminished public involve...
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708,33 zł |
Public Provision and Performance: Contributions from Efficiency and Productivity Measurement
ISBN: 9780444504838 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments are searching for possibilities to improve efficiency and reduce cost of the public sector services. Privatising, deregulation, changing property rights have become popular policy items in recent politics. Although there has been much progress in methodological issues and the availability of reliable data, there is still a huge gap between efficiency research and policy implementation of the results. The aim of this book is to bridge this gap. The book provides a summary of recent research, an overview of methods, an insight of factors affecting efficiency, an evaluation of the...
Governments are searching for possibilities to improve efficiency and reduce cost of the public sector services. Privatising, deregulation, changing p...
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1086,31 zł |
Whistleblowers
ISBN: 9780465091744 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What kind of person puts a successful career at risk in order to warn the public of a dangerous or illegal situation? What are the consequences of such an action, and how do these people and their families deal with the pressure? What laws protect them, and where can they turn for support? The often surprising answers are in this book, the first large-scale, long-term study of sixty-four courageous ethical resisters and their spouses.
What kind of person puts a successful career at risk in order to warn the public of a dangerous or illegal situation? What are the consequences of suc...
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96,05 zł |
Strategy in the Public Sector: A Guide to Effective Change Management
ISBN: 9780471895251 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The public sector is experiencing tremendous pressure for strategic change. Governments in many countries require public sector managers to be more responsive to the public and to deliver more value with constrained budgets. Members of the public also face change, and look to their public sector organisations to provide efficient and high quality service, while adapting their activities in a complex and dynamic world.
Strategy in the Public Sector provides guidance to managers who have responsibility for delivering increased levels of efficiency and innovation and... The public sector is experiencing tremendous pressure for strategic change. Governments in many countries require public sector managers to be more re...
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287,14 zł |
The Government of World Cities: The Future of the Metro Model
ISBN: 9780471949824 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays from authoritative contributors on the government of the world's largest cities examines how the metropolitan model - local governments in one authority - succeeds or fails. Specific cities exemplifying the three categories of outright abolition, under fire, and successfully thriving, are examined to see whether it is possible to judge how far the existence of a metropolitan government has improved the governance of the big city.
This collection of essays from authoritative contributors on the government of the world's largest cities examines how the metropolitan model - local ...
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2131,61 zł |
Controlling Corruption
ISBN: 9780520074088 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Controlling Corruption is a brilliant book. It is far and away the best work on the subject that I have read and I think the best there is."--Aaron Wildavsky, University of California, Berkeley
""Controlling Corruption is a brilliant book. It is far and away the best work on the subject that I have read and I think the best there is."--Aaron ...
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149,12 zł |
Coordination Without Hierarchy: Informal Structures in Multiorganizational Systems
ISBN: 9780520080379 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The organizational history of American government during the past 100 years has been written principally in terms of the creation of larger and larger public organizations. Beginning with the Progressive movement, no matter the goal, the reflexive response has been to consolidate and centralize into formal hierarchies. That efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability, and the coordination necessary to achieve them, are promoted by such reorganizations has become widely accepted. Borrowing from social psychology, sociology, political science, and public administration, and using the...
The organizational history of American government during the past 100 years has been written principally in terms of the creation of larger and larger...
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201,68 zł |
Brazil's State-Owned Enterprises: A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur
ISBN: 9780521033244 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil's large state-owned enterprises. The Brazilian economic system encourages private enterprise, but the government itself owns and operates such critical industries as petrochemicals, steel, electricity and telecommunications. The Brazilian state has assumed the role of an entrepreneur not for ideological reasons, but as a pragmatic means of speeding up the process of economic growth. The author examines the economic and financial performance of these state-owned enterprises in terms of their contribution to economic growth....
This book provides a systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil's large state-owned enterprises. The Brazilian economic system encourages privat...
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348,21 zł |
Brazil's State-Owned Enterprises: A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur
ISBN: 9780521237161 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil's large state-owned enterprises. The Brazilian economic system encourages private enterprise, but the government itself owns and operates such critical industries as petrochemicals, steel, electricity and telecommunications. The Brazilian state has assumed the role of an entrepreneur not for ideological reasons, but as a pragmatic means of speeding up the process of economic growth. The author examines the economic and financial performance of these state-owned enterprises in terms of their contribution to economic growth....
This book provides a systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil's large state-owned enterprises. The Brazilian economic system encourages privat...
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602,78 zł |
Russian Officialdom in Crisis: Autocracy and Local Self-Government, 1861-1900
ISBN: 9780521361279 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern Russian history began with the "Great Reforms" of 1861-4 which emancipated the serfs and introduced public self-government to assist the state in managing rural administration and change. In this capacity, peasant and zemstvo self-government, established partly on the basis of Western administrative theory, was important to the solvency of the entire state, autocracy's political evolution, and the fate of the rural gentry, peasants, and townspeople. This book is the first full-scale account of the development of rural self-government from the "Great Reforms" to its bureaucratization in...
Modern Russian history began with the "Great Reforms" of 1861-4 which emancipated the serfs and introduced public self-government to assist the state ...
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453,66 zł |
The Government of England Under Henry I
ISBN: 9780521375863 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first full-length analysis of the machinery and men of government under Henry I, which looks in much greater detail than is possible for other contemporary states at the way government worked and at the careers of royal servants. The early twelfth century was a major period of growth in English government apart from the royal household. Royal justice was vigorously administered, setting precedents for the later development of common law. At the local level the powerful sheriffs were kept under control, though aristocratic influence over the office survived. Government provided new...
This is the first full-length analysis of the machinery and men of government under Henry I, which looks in much greater detail than is possible for o...
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280,63 zł |