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Review
"While many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is a realist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need to know the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories and technologies." (Mel Dubnick, Department of Public Administration at Rutgers University and former Managing Editor of the Public Administration Review)
"A handbook of reinvention-style tools of organizational change written by people who have made it work." (David Osborne, co-author of Reinventing Government and Banishing Bureaucracy, chief author of the first National Performance Review report, and managing partner at the Public Strategies Group.")
Book Description
While many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is a ?realist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need to know the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories and technologies.
-- Mel Dubnick, Department of Public Administration at Rutgers University and former Managing Editor of the Public Administration Review
Today's public administrators must be more than the effective managers of their agencies' internal operations. In order to manage a complex set of interorganizational relationships spanning governments, nonprofit organizations and private firms in a complex global economy, they and their organizations must be capable of great agility and change. Effectiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success: Today's public managers must reach beyond competence to be creative innovators and agents of change.
This book introduces public sector professionals to a set of innovation tools: Strategic Planning, Reengineering, Total Quality Management, Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Management, Team Management, Privatization. It shows how to understand them, use them and integrate them into any organization, and how they will take public managers beyond competence to be creative innovators.
The creative public manager must continually look for new tools and new approaches. Tools for Innovators will help in this search, and in meeting and surmounting the challenges of a changing public sector.
Tools for Innovators : Creative Strategies for Strengthening Public Sector Organizations (Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management Series)
Tools for Innovators : Creative Strategies for Strengthening Public Sector Organizations (Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management Series),Steven Cohen,William Eimicke,Jossey-Bass,078790953X,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Case studies,Management - General,Organization Theory,Organizational change,Public Administration,Public Affairs & Administration,Structural Adjustment,Business & Economics / Nonprofit Organizations & Charities,Civil service & public sector,Organizational theory & behaviour,Political structure & processes
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