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Practical Public Management (Public Administration and Public Policy)
Practical Public Management - Public Administration and Public Policy Author:Robert T. Golembiewski This timely reference/text moves public management research beyond its current theoretical and practical obstacles, offering solutions to nonproductive opposing views and combining a critique of the major ideas on reforming the public service with a more satisfactory approach based on an alternative structural arrangement. Introduces and esta... more »blishes the credibility of a useful way to equip public management better for the future-derived from studies on organization development and quality of working life! Highlighting the challenges that need positive attention, this outstanding resource provides detailed examinations of problems found in six major theories of public management and demonstrates how the theories fail to incorporate necessary research and real-world applications elucidates the polarization between defenders of today's public management and its detractors illustrates the shortcomings of the polarized parties, particularly in their common acceptance of the contemporary bureaucratic structure addresses a range of political questions associated with managerial and structural issues directs attention to values and empirical regularities and much more!« less