Public management organizations, governance, and performance

"How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of public programs? What aspects of management can be distinguished? Can their separable contributions to performance be esti...

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Main Authors O'Toole, Laurence J., 1948- (Author), Meier, Kenneth J., 1950- (Author)
Corporate Author EBSCO Publishing (firma)
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781139078498
978-1-107-00441-2
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xiv, 317 s.) : il.

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Table of Contents:
  • Public management and performance: an evidence-based perspective
  • A model of public management and a source of evidence
  • Public management in interdependent settings: networks, managerial networking and performance
  • Managerial quality and performance
  • Internal management and performance: stability, human resources and decision making
  • Nonlinearities in public management: the role of managerial capacity and organizational buffering
  • Public management in intergovernmental networks: managing structural networks and managerial networking
  • Public management and performance: what we know, and what we need to know