Public ownership / nationalization

This important volume provide a one-stop resource on the SAFER Guides along with the guides themselves and information on their use, development, and evaluation.

Coping with complexities is an everyday reality for private, public and third sectors that face intricate, overlapping, obscuring and ever-changing challenges.

Since 1978, when China started remaking its economy, it has also embarked on an unparalleled effort at remaking its pension system to accommodate its hybrid economic model.

In the welfare provision of today, power takes both the shape of juridical sanctions and of attractive offers for self-development.

John Kotter of the Harvard Business School is one of a number of experts who believe that organisations are over managed and under led, at least partially because people do not appreciate the differences between management and leadership.

Although physicians and hospitals are receiving incentives to use electronic health records (EHRs), there is little emphasis on workflow and process improvement by providers or vendors.

Stuck for ideas, inspiration or just want to work differently?

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management.

In today's healthcare economy, with reduced reimbursement and closer scrutiny of quality patient care, the concepts and terminology of Lean management are becoming invaluable to nurses, clinicians, administrators, and other healthcare staff involved in improvement.

This book brings together a blend of different areas of machine learning and recent advances in the area.

By the time you read this book, the art world may have witnessed the sale of its first $500 million painting.

This book discusses advanced knowledge about the synthesis and application of materials in the medical field for diagnostic and therapeutic conditions.

Effective Strategies for Change is a newly revised edition of HIMSS' bestseller Change Management Strategies for an Effective EMR Implementation.

Countries are facing increasing life expectancy and a shrinking family size and in effect, this may escalate demands for medical and supportive services.

The topic of workplace bullying and abuse gained considerable public and media attention during 2013 when the scandal of events at the BBC was unveiled following an enquiry led by Dinah Rose QC.

Billions of dollars, Euros, yen, and yuan in public funds are spent annually to promote innovation in metropolitan regions, attempting to transform the economy by attracting technology-based companies and supporting small startups to secure high-paying jobs.

This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System.

Nonprofit organizations are managing to carry out sophisticated public relations programming that cultivates relationships with their key audiences.

Charities operate within an increasingly challenging environment, with competition for public engagement, funding and volunteers intensifying.

Public Administration Evolving: From Foundations to the Future demonstrates how the theory and practice of public administration has evolved since the early decades of the twentieth century.

This book analyzes the challenges facing public service media management in the face of ongoing technological developments and changing audience behaviors.

Drawing on Elaine Heumann Gurian's fifty years of museum experience, Centering the Museum calls on the profession to help visitors experience their shared humanity and find social uses for public buildings, in order to make museums more central and useful to everyone in difficult times.

This book reveals and describes the leadership and culture change required to remove waste from healthcare processes and eliminate the root cause of soaring costs, poor quality and safety, and limited access.

Governments and clinical providers are investing billions of dollars in health information technologies (HIT).

"e;Dental Practice Health Check"e; helps dental practice owners improve their business.

Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of partnerships between higher education institutions and for-profit online program managers (OPMs).

This book investigates what faith means in the actual day-to-day practice of faith-based NGOs working in the development, humanitarian, and advocacy sectors.

This wide-ranging book explores the impact of marketization on the creative industries.

Understanding how public policy is made and managed is a key component in studying the disciplines of public management and administration.

This book - a collection of reviews and research articles by the top academics in the field - provides a glimpse of the cutting-edge technology and research being carried out and shows how researchers are utilizing this knowledge to develop new areas of study and novel applications.

Fundraising Management in a Changing Museum World explains how cultural organizations can successfully create sustainable fundraising programs that will increase financial support and stabilize revenue during times of change.

This book combines models, theory and practical advice that guides clinicians, managers and facilitators to lead integrated primary health care.

This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System.

This book examines the current state of American health care using a social science lens to focus on the interdependent, intercultural, economic, and communication aspects of access and delivery.

In this timely textbook, authors Drezner and Huehls take the interdisciplinary, complex nature of the study of philanthropy and fundraising and apply it to the field of higher education.

The National Service Framework for mental health aims to provide uniformly good systems so that mental health problems are detected and therefore treated early.

The ability to discover and respond to societal needs in the field of culture requires an integrated, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach.

First published in 1997, in this second volume Gould and Moultrie compile writings from various professionals in the public service sector, researchers and other academics in support of the Social Services Research and Development Unit (or SSRADU) at the University of Bath.

A provocative and timely look at the current state of global economics, particularly how the state-owned companies of Russia, China, Latin America, and other emerging markets are influencing how people work, how they consume, and how they prosper.

The aim of this publication is to look in depth at depopulation - a trend that is affecting an increasing number of cities worldwide.

If you can imagine it it will happen.

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management.

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes?

This book takes an in-depth look at the enormous challenges facing UK public services and considers what might be done to resolve them.

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP or 3Ps) allow the public sector to seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector during procurement processes.

Data Warehousing for Biomedical Informatics is a step-by-step how-to guide for designing and building an enterprise-wide data warehouse across a biomedical or healthcare institution, using a four-iteration lifecycle and standardized design pattern.

Healthcare Organizations offer significant opportunities for change and improvement in their overall performance.

This unique volume provides new perspectives on assessing the performance of nonprofit organizations whilst meeting the information needs of decision-makers, both internal (such as resource-providers, regulators and clients), and external (including boards, managers, staff and volunteers).

Challenging traditional ways of thinking, leading, and managing based on cutting-edge research and real-world examples, this book provides an insightful and accessible perspective for leaders and managers in the 21st century who seek to become more effective in an increasingly uncertain and complex world which limits their ability to get results.