Administrative Culture in Developing and Transitional Countries

Herausgeber: Jamil, Ishtiaq; Hossain, Farhad; Askvik, Steinar

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book offers scholars, academics, students, and practitioners of public administration and political science a comprehensive and state-of the art review of current research on administrative culture in the context of developing and transitional countries. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of international scholars, this book is intended to clarify theory and practice of administrative culture in developing and transitional countries and contexts. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Public Administration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 213mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781138816398
• ISBN-10: 1138816396
• Artikelnr.: 40922891

Autorenporträt

Ishtiaq Jamil and Steinar Askvik are at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway where they co-directs the MPhil Program in Public Administration. Farhad Hossain is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK, where he directs the Postgraduate Programme in Human Resource Management (International Development).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to the Special Issue on Administrative Culture in
Developing and Transitional Countries 2. Understanding Administrative
Culture: Some Theoretical and Methodological Remarks 3. The Role of
Organizational Culture on Informal Conflict Management 4. Culture,
Administration, and Reform in Africa 5. Bureaucratic Culture and the
Social-Political Connection: The Bangladesh Example 6. The Dilemma for the
New Administrative Culture in Mexican Public Administration: Esprit de
Corps or Individualist Bureaucracy? 7. Performance Appraisal or Praising
Performance? The Culture of Rhetoric in Performance Management in Ghana
Civil Service 8. Administrative Culture in Bulgaria: Sources, Foundations,
and Transitions 9. Implementation of Strategic Organizational Change: The
Case of King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia 10. Public Sector
Reforms in Fiji: Examining Policy Implementation Setting and Administrative
Culture 11. Administrative Culture and Incidence of Corruption in
Bangladesh: A Search for the Potential Linkage