Civil service and public sector

Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.

In Governance in the Twenty-first Century Canadian and international experts recognize both the difficulty of making predictions and the need to consider the future in order to prepare the public sector for new challenges.

Public management research has in recent years paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services.

Britain in the 1970s (1996) provides an objective appraisal of the workings and failings of the British economy in the 1970s.

A leader's ability to discover and implement innovations is crucial to adapting to changing technologies and customer preferences, enhancing employee creativity, developing new products, supporting market competitiveness, and sustaining economic growth.

A fundamental objective of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the creation of in- telligent computer programs.

This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries.

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein's X-efficiency theory.

What counts is what works - but how can we actually tell what works?

An issue-driven introduction to industrial organization, thoroughly updated and revised.

The problems arising from the existence of asymmetric information in public decision making have been widely explored by economists.

Broadly, a Public-Private Partnership (or PPP) is any collaboration between the public and private sector, but research in the UK has tended to focus on those that have been used for major infrastructure projects, such as roads, schools, and hospitals.

Aging populations are a major consideration for socio-economic development in the early 21st century.

This book examines how India was placed and placed itself in the world during the first half of the 20th century in a period of global turmoil and set against the subcontinental contest for independence.

Total Quality Management (TQM) is a set of concepts, tools and applications which has been so successful in manufacturing industry that we are now witnessing experimentation in the transference of Total Quality Management to the public sector provision of government, health and education in North America, Europe and elsewhere.

Each endogenous variable in the model is a function of the exogenous For later discussion, it is useful to explore this in variables and parameters.

At a time of growing pressure on health and social care services, this book draws together contributions which highlight contemporary challenges for their management.

Wie kann der öffentliche Dienst effizienter, transparenter und agiler werden?

This book is a machine-generated literature overview highlighting the importance of natural capital while studying the economics of ecology.

Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability.

Organization, Performance and Equity: Perspectives on the Japanese Economy provides an analysis of key components of the Japanese economy and business structures, edited by two leading American-based Japan scholars.

Discover analytical tools and practices to help improve the quality of risk management in government organizations Federal agencies increasingly recognize the importance of active risk management to help ensure that they can carry out their missions.

This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel.

Health care arguably is the single most regulated industry in industrial countries, and possibly in newly industrialized and developing countries as well.

Britain in the 1970s (1996) provides an objective appraisal of the workings and failings of the British economy in the 1970s.

Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics presents a collection of papers analyzing the political systems of ten nations.

This book seeks to balance normative prescriptions on fiscal policy with its practical aspects in the context of the Indian scenario.

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions, and one where the implementation of the SDGs is particularly urgent.

With more than eighty chapters, this three-volume work - described by the current Director-General of the World Trade Organization as an "e;outstanding contribution"e; to understanding the world trading system - is by far the most comprehensive study yet undertaken of the WTO.

Deterrence of market manipulation is central to the entire regulatory and legal framework governing the operation of American commodity futures markets.

This book is based on intense research work and consultation conducted over a long period, presents circumstances under which certain tribes in Andhra Pradesh are placed to keep on living through criminal activities.

As individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide.

The notion of quality features prominently in contemporary discourse.

This book examines the effect of banking on the real economy and society, focusing on banking supervision as the decisive factor in steering banking activities and determining the social outcome of the game of finance.

Risk assessment and risk management are essential across the public sector to improve processes and outcomes.

Understanding the effects of radical change on public personnel systems is critically important both now and in the future to all those interested in the quality of American democracy.

Critical examinations of efforts to make governments more efficient and responsivePolitical upheavals and civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have obscured efforts by many countries in the region to reform their public sectors.

The Economics of Brexit - Revisited builds upon and extends the analysis contained within the authors' previous book, The Economics of Brexit: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the UK's Economic Relationship with the EU, which arguably represented the most comprehensive and systematic evaluation of the UK's economic relationship with the EU.

This book is a quarterly forecast and analysis report on the Chinese economy.

Modern option pricing theory was developed in the late sixties and early seventies by F.

This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation.

This book reflects China's experience, model and theory of successful inflation control.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book makes a significant contribution to a hitherto much neglected area.

The book provides an up-to-date analysis of the restructuring of public service employment relations in six European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the UK.