Managing the Public Sector
- ISBN-10
- 0155068598
- ISBN-13
- 9780155068599
- Series
- Managing the Public Sector
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 609
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Wadsworth Publishing Company
- Author
- Grover Starling
Description
Combining the most current public management thinking and research with examples of how organizations apply these ideas, MANAGING THE PUBLIC SECTOR is a comprehensive introduction to the field. Written in a manner that is both interesting to students and rigorous in its scholarship, the text aims to balance theory and practice. This Sixth Edition incorporates such issues as new technology, the National Performance Review, and new research on the relationship between personality and performance.
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Other editions
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- 2015-07-14
- 176 pages
- Paperback
- Routledge
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- 1993
- 227 pages
- Paperback
- Edward Elgar
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