Format:
1 online resource (547 pages)
Edition:
4th ed.
ISBN:
9780470528662
Series Statement:
Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management Series
Content:
Understanding and Managing Public Organizations provides a comprehensive analysis of research and practice on public organizations and management. In this fourth edition of his award-winning best seller, Hal Rainey reviews topics including organizational goals and performance, decision making and strategy, leadership, motivation, organizational structure and design, organizational change, and others. He analyzes effective and ineffective practices, with suggestions for managing contemporary and classic challenges in public organizations, and with illustrative vignettes and examples. Carefully revised and updated, this edition of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations extends previous editions with deeper coverage of collaboration and networks, public values, public service motivation, managerial strategy, performance assessment, innovation and organizational change, and recent trends in public sector management. Praise for the Previous Editions "The third edition of the classic text provides a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of research on public organizations and management. Drawing on a review of the most current research about government organizations and managers, this important source offers specific suggestions for managing these challenges in today's public organizations." ? Abstracts of Public Administration "A masterful textbook, as well as an important and original contribution to the public organization theory literature ? both comprehensive in its treatment of organization theory and decidedly 'public' in its perspective." ?Public Administration Review "A tremendous contribution to the field. Rainey's ability to synthesize research streams from a variety of fields?such as political science, public administration, public policy, business administration, psychology, sociology, and others?is outstanding." ?Jeffrey L.
Content:
Brudney, Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service, Cleveland State University
Note:
Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, Fourth Edition -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES, TABLES, AND EXHIBITS -- PREFACE -- Audience -- Organization -- Acknowledgments -- THE AUTHOR -- PART ONE: THE DYNAMIC CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS -- Chapter 1: THE CHALLENGE OF EFFECTIVE PUBLIC ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT -- Toward Improved Understanding and Management of Public Organizations -- Ambivalence Toward Government -- General Management and Public Management -- The Dilemmas of Improving Public Management -- Effective Public Management -- The Challenge of Sustained Attention and Analysis -- Organizations: A Definition and a Conceptual Framework -- Notes -- Chapter 2: UNDERSTANDING THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONS -- The Systems Metaphor -- Classical Approaches to Understanding Organizations -- Reactions, Critiques, and New Developments -- The Quiet Controversy over the Distinctiveness of Public Organizations and Management in Organization Theory -- Chapter 3: WHAT MAKES PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS DISTINCTIVE -- Public Versus Private: A Dangerous Distinction? -- Public Organizations: An Essential Distinction -- Problems and Approaches in Public-Private Comparisons -- Common Assertions About Public Organizations and Public Management -- Chapter 4: ANALYZING THE ENVIRONMENT OF PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS -- General Dimensions of Organizational Environments -- Research on Environmental Variations -- Recent Trends in Research on Organizational Environments -- The Political and Institutional Environments of Public Organizations -- Chapter 5: THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL POWER AND PUBLIC POLICY -- Public Organizations and the Public -- Media Power: Obvious and Mysterious -- Interest Groups, Clients, and Constituencies -- Legislative Bodies -- The Chief Executive -- The Courts -- Public Managers' Perceptions of the Political Environment -- The Public Policy Process
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Leadership and Organizational Culture -- Leading Cultural Development -- Leadership and Management in Public Organizations -- Does Context Affect Performance and Behavior? -- Effective Leadership in Government -- Modeling and Measuring Public Management -- Note -- Chapter 12: TEAMWORK -- Groups in Organizations -- Communication in Organizations -- Conflict in Organizations -- Managing Groups, Communication, and Conflict in Organizations -- Special Considerations for Public Organizations -- PART THREE: STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING AND IMPROVING PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS -- Chapter 13: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT -- Relatively Natural Change: Organizational Life Cycles -- Large-Scale Planned Change -- Organization Development -- Success and Failure in Large-Scale, Planned Organizational Change -- Chapter 14: ADVANCING EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR -- The Performance of Public Organizations -- Profiles of Corporate Excellence -- Research on Effective Public Organizations -- Trends and Developments in the Pursuit of Effective Public Management -- Performance Measurement and the PART -- Research on Governance -- Managing Major Initiatives and Priorities: Privatization and Contracting Out -- Conclusion -- Note -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX
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PART TWO: KEY DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZING AND MANAGING -- Chapter 6: ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS AND EFFECTIVENESS -- General Organizational Goals -- Goals of Public Organizations -- Models for Assessing Organizational Effectiveness -- Toward Diverse, Conflicting Criteria -- The Competing Values Approach -- The Balanced Scorecard -- Effectiveness in Organizational Networks -- Managing Goals and Effectiveness -- Effectiveness of Public Organizations -- Chapter 7: FORMULATING AND ACHIEVING PURPOSE -- Power and Politics Inside Organizations -- Decision Making in Organizations -- Strategic Management -- The Miles and Snow Typology -- Issues for Managers and Researchers -- Chapter 8: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -- Do Public Organizations Have Distinctive Structural Characteristics? -- The Development of Research on Structure -- Structural Dimensions and Influences -- Organizational Design -- Organizational Structures in Public Organizations -- Information Technology and Public Organizations -- Endnote -- Chapter 9: UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS -- Motivation and Public Management -- The Context of Motivation in Public Organizations -- The Concept of Work Motivation -- Needs, Values, Motives, and Incentives -- Attempts to Specify Needs, Values, and Incentives -- Chapter 10: UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS -- Theories of Work Motivation -- Recent Directions in Motivation Theory -- Motivation Practice and Techniques -- Incentive Structures and Reward Expectancies in Public Organizations -- The Challenge of Motivation in the Public Sector -- Chapter 11: LEADERSHIP, MANAGERIAL ROLES, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE -- Leadership Theories in Management and Organizational Behavior -- The Nature of Managerial Work and Roles -- Transformational Leadership -- Charismatic Leadership
Additional Edition:
Print version Rainey, Hal G. Understanding and Managing Public Organizations Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2009 ISBN 9780470402924
Language:
English
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