Handbook of Public Services Management

Herausgeber: Pollitt, Christopher; Harrison, Stephen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Highly successful in hardback and now available in paperback, the Handbook of Public Services Management brings together twenty leading contributors to cover all the key issues affecting public services management. It is organized in a practical way to help students and professionals approach strategic issues such as: * Managing relationships with the external environment, including regulatory and financial bodies and coping with the issues of privatization and competitive tendering. * Evaluating the performance of public services and distinguishing criteria for doing so. * Developing staff and controling professionally qualified staff. * Allocating and accounting for the use of resources, including information technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780631193456
• ISBN-10: 0631193456
• Artikelnr.: 24431319

Autorenporträt

Christopher Pollitt has worked as a Whitehall civil servant, an academic and a consultant to many public service organizations. He is currently Professor of Government at Brunel University and Director of the Centre for Evaluation of Public Policy and Practice (CEPP). Stephen Harrison has had a varied management career in the public and private sectors. Since 1978 he has taught at the University of Leeds' Nuffield Institute for Health, specializing in the politics of health and social services at both governmental and organizational levels.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.
List of tables.
List of contributors.
Preface.
Introduction.
Part I: Evaluating Public Services. .
1. Evaluating the Performance of Central Government: John Brown.
2. Assessing the Performance of Schools: Brian Wilcox.
3. Evaluating Health Services: from Value for Money to the Valuing of
Health Services: Andrew F. Long.
4. The Audit Commission: Mary Henkel.
5. An Overview of the Use of Performance Indicators in Local Government:
David Burningham.
Evaluating Public Services: Reflections: Stephen Harrison and Christopher
Pollitt.
Part II: Controlling Public Service Professionals. .
6. Controlling Doctors: Brain Edwards.
7. The Case of Local Authority Social Workers: Alan Butler.
8. The Management of Staff: the Case of the London Fire Brigade: Graham
Salaman.
Controlling Public Service Professionals: Reflections: Stephen Harrison and
Christopher Pollitt.
Part III: New Approaches to Resource Management. .
9. Local Management of Schools; a New System of Resource Allocation and
Accountability: Rosalind Levacic.
10. Resource Management in Universities: John Sizer.
11. The Civil Service and The Financial Management Initiatives: Andrew Grey
and Bill Jenkins.
12. Changes in Resource Management in the Social Services: Norman Warner.
13. Resource Management in the National Health Service: David Symes.
14. New Approaches to Resource Management: Reflections. Stephen Harrison
and Christopher Pollitt.
Part IV: Strategic Management.
15. Organizational Design and Development: the Civil Service in the 1980s:
Kate Jenkins.
16. Organizing the Strategic Management: the Personal social Services:
Gerald Wistow.
17. Strategic Management in Local Government and the NHS: Rodney Brooke.
18. The Organizational Structure of the Police: Roy Wilkie.
19. Strategic Management in the Prison Service: Chris J. Train and
Christine Stewart.
20. Strategic Management in Social Service: Norman Tutt, Jean Neale and
William Warburton.
21. Strategic Management: Reflections: Stephen Harris and Christopher
Pollitt.